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I am adding a new 500GB ssd to my music desktop computer. Currently my BIAB is on a standard internal hard disk but not the C drive. If I simply copy all the BIAB folder to the new SSD drive and then point my icons to the new place should everything work OK? Also is it a good idea and speed things up? I never save any songs into the bb folder. My current bb folder is about 90GB. Cheers for any advice.

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You will notice a phenemonal increase in the speed of loading the program.

Your plan should work unless you use VSTs or VSTIs which may require a reinstall to get the locations right.

In my case, since I have the audiophile version that is 1.5+ GB, I have the BIAB program on the same SSD as Windows, and the RealTracks on a fast 'regular' hard drive. Make sure the file locations are set in Preferences.


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Thanks for that Matt. I don't have audiophile so can put all the ReaTracks on the ssd drive.

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In my case, since I have the audiophile version that is 1.5+ GB,

I suspect an error in typing, I think Matt may have meant 1.5+ TB
1.5 GB is pretty much nothing these days..


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Bob, right you are. Thanks.

We're a ways beyond my first storage device, a cassette recorder.


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Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
We're a ways beyond my first storage device, a cassette recorder.


I did that too with my first computer. Took 30 minutes to load a few kilo-bytes... smile

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Originally Posted By: JEL
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We're a ways beyond my first storage device, a cassette recorder.


I did that too with my first computer. Took 30 minutes to load a few kilo-bytes... smile


Same here! Plus after 30 minutes you prayed that everything loaded correctly!


I just posted a selfie and all of the responses were get well soon!

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Copied my b&b folder to the new SSD drive without any issues and now RealTracks build really quickly. Bought the SSD to hold the amazing Spectrasonics Keyscape keyboard collection. Anyway extra benefit is now I have a much faster BIAB.

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It is great, isn't it? I think putting SSD drives in my computers is the upgrade that made the single biggest improvement in my over 30 years of building PCs.


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We're a ways beyond my first storage device, a cassette recorder.


I did that too with my first computer. Took 30 minutes to load a few kilo-bytes... smile


Same here! Plus after 30 minutes you prayed that everything loaded correctly!


"LOAD ERROR" ...yes, I can't say I miss that smile

I'm still a bit worried about SSDs though. As far as I've read, traditional harddrives tend to give warnings before they crash, so you have time to backup or migrate data, while SSDs are said to just ...suddenly snap. I don't know if that's true, but making regular backups are probably still a good idea smile

Let's know how stable your SSD BIAB runs when you've done it for a while. It will be good info to know smile

Good luck!
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My new SSD drive is not my C drive and is for streaming samples mainly. Therefore there should not be the need to write new data on it very often. It is a Samsung 500 GB V-Nand Evo and the box states 5-year limited warranty. I hope it will prove durable.

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