Higher end gameing rig's are full of high end spec's that quite often iclude SSD
has anyone started to include these in their system.

If so what's the best use, as primary drive for OS, Sample Streaming.

Whats the low down?

Ups: No more fan noise, breezing fast booting and loading times, better performance for DFD sample streaming
Downs: Only limited amount of read and write processes so a SSD which is used a lot will probably live shorter than a conventional drive, the SSD in my Macbook Pro has been working flawlessly for 2,5 years now and I use it a lot.
And they're still quite expensive.

been running ssd raid's for years... basically its an upgrade, the price for audio aint cheap, for read write a little less than magnetical. those big 3tb drives still comes in handy with big libraries.

120 SSD on the OS drive. Windows 7 if any one needs install tips please PM me and I will happily guide you through. See below for links.

SATA Raptor (10000RPM) for Audio read/write (until prices drop and ssd's are more reliable for constant read write).

SATA Western digital Server drive for sample libraries, plugin data, presets and so on.

SATA Wetern Digital Black drive for all other data and crud!

External WD Caddies for data backup and storage of online downloaded files.


http://www.sevenforums.com/crashes-debugging/196993-bsod-dri ver-detected-controller-error-device-ide-ideport5-2.html#12

Read cycles are not really limited.

Write and ERASE cycles are more limited.


That being said, with TRIM it gets better, and SandForce controllers are really working their sweat off to ensure longetivity of the SSD. It's a greater probability that HDD will suffer a mechanical error than SSD rendered unusable because of write-erase cycle limitations, especially in laptops.

Sizes are noy yet very economical for those of us who use dedicated drives with large sample libraries. I do however recommend SSD's for your system drive. I was gobsmacked at how much snappier everything is with a SSD running your OS.

Jim

Best solution there is an SSD cacheing the larger HD via Intel Smart Response.

+1

I've got Windows 7 64-bit on an SSD, it's fast, and it hasn't given me an ounce of trouble for about 2 years.

+1
Just get one for the OS til they are cheaper.
With the size of sample libs and the cost per GB for SSD, and the gains for sample streaming, its just nuts to have TBs of SSD for samples until they are considerably cheaper.
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Always recommended for the system drive. If big enough also for projects and samples! But it's also a good recommendation to have a 1TB or bigger drive for backups and stuff.
Must not be a Intel, the OCZ Vertex2 or the newer Vertex3 having excellent performance.
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I have 2 samsung 470 series 128 GB SSDs that I'm going to Raid 0.
Problem is, no trim or GC for raid. Intels should have this fixed with new drivers but for what chip sets? Solution, do all installs and write ops on an install on a stanterd drive. Wipe the SSD raid before copied to.

Interesting. Care to elaborate for a nub?

Intel designed a system, built into the drive controllers on some of their newer chipsets, that allows an SSD drive to act as a massive cache to a normal hard drive. So if you have, say, a 32Gb hard drive cacheing your 2Tb sample drive, the 32Gb most-recently accessed stuff will be available at almost-SSD speeds, and it'll only ever need to pull stuff off the lower-speed normal HD if its not already on the SSD.

More technical explanation at Anandtech :
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4329/intel-z68-chipset-smart-r esponse-technology-ssd-caching-review/2

SSDs do not need to be Intel's only. Modern SandForce controllers are doing the heavy lifting. OCZ, Samsung, Corsair, all great brands, but OCZ has really topnotch performance.

Those of us with older systems might want to look at Silverstone HDDBoost
It allows a regular SATA connection to use a SSD as a cache for a harddrive.

There is another manufacturer making something similar, but I forgot who.