difference between Seagate , WD and Samsung ?
- KVRian
- 700 posts since 19 Jan, 2008
I'm confused, you are looking for a Hard Drive or for an SSD?
If you are looking for a Hard Drive, stay away from Segate. They are not making good drives lately, I bought a 500GB one 9 years ago and hold me 8 years and pretty intense usage. Bough a 1TB one like 4 years ago, it died in 3 years with medium usage.
If you are looking for SSD, go with Samsung, plain an simple.
If you are looking for a Hard Drive, stay away from Segate. They are not making good drives lately, I bought a 500GB one 9 years ago and hold me 8 years and pretty intense usage. Bough a 1TB one like 4 years ago, it died in 3 years with medium usage.
If you are looking for SSD, go with Samsung, plain an simple.
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- KVRer
- 4 posts since 8 Dec, 2017
By my own experience, unless you are using huge samples (like kontakt uses) it's clueless to use HD or SSD. Small samples can be loaded with the same speed.
- Beware the Quoth
- 33155 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
So what do you use? floppy disks? USB sticks? magic beans?tom javelink wrote:By my own experience, unless you are using huge samples (like kontakt uses) it's clueless to use HD or SSD.
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- KVRian
- 1360 posts since 17 Jul, 2007 from Riversland Valhalla
Choose Samsung, when it comes to SSD.. Consider to buy their Pro models as they have longer life span..
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- KVRAF
- 1929 posts since 4 Nov, 2004 from Manchester
Punch cards FTW.whyterabbyt wrote:So what do you use? floppy disks? USB sticks? magic beans?tom javelink wrote:By my own experience, unless you are using huge samples (like kontakt uses) it's clueless to use HD or SSD.
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vitocorleone123 vitocorleone123 https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=333504
- KVRAF
- 1885 posts since 30 Jun, 2014 from Pacific NW
OK - that's a little bit of an odd choice, to go with mechanical for boot. Generally, you'd want your fastest drive to be the OS and software drive, plus just about any (all?) SSDs will be more reliable than any mechanical drive. I'd HIGHLY recommend getting another SSD for the OS and software and dropping mechanical for anything but massive storage needs, which lets you get bigger drives with 5400rpm if you'd like that'd run cooler and quieter.thejonsolo wrote:I have two 850 EVO 1TB and one 950 EVO M.2 1 TB. With Samsung Magic you can actually get a little boost. In all I find them to be faster than my previous WD Black NVMe. I notice in loading my orchestral template...that is where it really shines. If you are writing to the SSD a lot the WD Black NVMe gets really hot. Someone online mentioned that they had one fail as a boot drive.
I stick to mechanical drives for boot and Program files, but all of my data is on SSD.
- KVRian
- 641 posts since 26 May, 2008 from Iceland.
Little bit odd ? That's weird as f**k!vitocorleone123 wrote:OK - that's a little bit of an odd choice, to go with mechanical for boot.thejonsolo wrote:
I stick to mechanical drives for boot and Program files, but all of my data is on SSD.
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- KVRian
- 698 posts since 7 Dec, 2009 from GWB
Pretty much defeats the purpose of an SSD.
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- 33155 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
For some things, its entirely likely that fast repeated or continuous reading and writing of data is more important than being able to once quickly load the software that processes that data. Video editing or 3D rendering, for example. Maybe even sample loading; one only loads the DAW and plugins once, but the sample files have to be accessed repeatedly. It really would depend on the use case.shroom81 wrote:Little bit odd ? That's weird as f**k!vitocorleone123 wrote:OK - that's a little bit of an odd choice, to go with mechanical for boot.thejonsolo wrote:
I stick to mechanical drives for boot and Program files, but all of my data is on SSD.
Since the cost of SSDs has dropped, the decision has become a bit less of an either/or, but a few years back I did it the same way on some systems because we needed the data throughput speed way more than we needed the system to boot 60 seconds quicker...
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