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Do you think the Internal Solid State is worth the $100 #668174 08/12/21 04:12 AM Help! Tech S.O.S (Off topic)
Joined: Jul 2015 Posts: 2,523 Cow Country, Florida Planobilly OP Veteran
OP Planobilly Veteran Joined: Jul 2015 Posts: 2,523 Cow Country, Florida	As I have been building new computers I am only using SSD drives. In this rebuild with the Intel Core i5-10600K Desktop Processor 6 Cores up to 4.8 GHz Unlocked LGA1200 (Intel 400 Series Chipset) 125W is it logical to use a SAMSUNG (MZ-V8V1T0B/AM) 980 SSD 1TB - M.2 NVMe Interface Internal Solid State Drive with V-NAND Technology as the boot drive. I am using all the older Seagate or WD drives for external back up. Billy New location, new environment, new music coming soon Seize the moo-ment If you feel like you’ve herd all these cow puns before, you probably have deja-moo

Re: Do you think the Internal Solid State is worth the $100 Planobilly #668189 08/12/21 05:03 AM Help! Tech S.O.S (Off topic)
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AudioTrack Veteran Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 18,371 Melbourne, Australia	For me, I wouldn't use anything that spins ever again, except for backup purposes. BIAB & RB2024 Win.(Audiophile), Sonar Platinum, Cakewalk by Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M Monitors, Pioneer Active Monitors, AKG K271 Studio H'phones

Re: Do you think the Internal Solid State is worth the $100 Planobilly #668190 08/12/21 05:12 AM Help! Tech S.O.S (Off topic)
Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 25,873 Hudson Valley & Lake George NY Matt Finley Veteran
Matt Finley Veteran Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 25,873 Hudson Valley & Lake George NY	No matter what the design of the rest of your computer, the use of an SSD is probably the single-most effective improvement in performance you can make. I'm with VideoTrack. BIAB 2024 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 6.5 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6; Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus Studio 192, Presonus Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors

Re: Do you think the Internal Solid State is worth the $100 Planobilly #668194 08/12/21 05:17 AM Help! Tech S.O.S (Off topic)
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mrgeeze Journeyman Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 741 Sonoran Desert	+1 videoTrack. nothing that spins. Ever biab2023(Mac) Logic Pro X

Re: Do you think the Internal Solid State is worth the $100 Planobilly #668204 08/12/21 06:41 AM Help! Tech S.O.S (Off topic)
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OP Planobilly Veteran Joined: Jul 2015 Posts: 2,523 Cow Country, Florida	So I ordered the internal ssd$$$. Jezzs, I am going to need to find a girlfriend with a lot of money and a better boat. Please send photos of boat! Billy Last edited by Planobilly; 08/12/21 06:42 AM. New location, new environment, new music coming soon Seize the moo-ment If you feel like you’ve herd all these cow puns before, you probably have deja-moo

Re: Do you think the Internal Solid State is worth the $100 mrgeeze #668209 08/12/21 07:40 AM Help! Tech S.O.S (Off topic)
Joined: May 2020 Posts: 1,629 Victoria, BC Simon - PG Music PG Music Staff
Simon - PG Music PG Music Staff Joined: May 2020 Posts: 1,629 Victoria, BC	Agreed. Once you go SSD (for your boot drive at least), you'll never go back. There still is a very compelling reason to buy spinning hard drives - price and size. An 8tb SSD is $1099 while an 8tb spinning drive is $199 (that's in Canuck Bucks). I work here

Re: Do you think the Internal Solid State is worth the $100 Simon - PG Music #668211 08/12/21 07:46 AM Help! Tech S.O.S (Off topic)
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sslechta Veteran Joined: Dec 2013 Posts: 2,732 St. Louis, MO. USA	Originally Posted By: Simon - PG Music An 8tb SSD is $1099 while an 8tb spinning drive is $199. That's why I still go spinning for my media drives. Those have larger capacity for all the big audio/video files. I think I've been using SSD for my OS drives for close to 10 years by now. Steve BIAB/RB 2022, Pro Tools 2020, Korg N5, JBL LSR 4328 Powered Monitors, AKG/Shure Mics. PC: Win11 PRO, 4 TB M2 SSD, 2 TB HD, 128 GB Memory

Re: Do you think the Internal Solid State is worth the $100 Planobilly #668212 08/12/21 07:48 AM Help! Tech S.O.S (Off topic)
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OP Planobilly Veteran Joined: Jul 2015 Posts: 2,523 Cow Country, Florida	Yes agreed Simon. Everything is about money at the end of the day. Two or three TBs is about all I ever need and the data can always stored off the system. I really wanted to know if everyone liked the internal SSD for a boot drive. Billy New location, new environment, new music coming soon Seize the moo-ment If you feel like you’ve herd all these cow puns before, you probably have deja-moo

Re: Do you think the Internal Solid State is worth the $100 Planobilly #668213 08/12/21 07:55 AM Help! Tech S.O.S (Off topic)
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MarioD Veteran Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 20,821 Hamlin NY	My music computer has three drives, a SSD for the OS, a SSD for my Kontakt patches, and a 4TB for data and other software/patches that are not on either SSD drives. Those software/patches are things that either I don't use much or do not need a SSD, like MIDI loops. I want my last spoken words to be "I hid a million dollars under the........................" 64 bit Win 10 Pro, the latest BiaB/RB, Roland Octa-Capture audio interface, a ton of software/hardware

Re: Do you think the Internal Solid State is worth the $100 Planobilly #668214 08/12/21 07:55 AM Help! Tech S.O.S (Off topic)
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OP Planobilly Veteran Joined: Jul 2015 Posts: 2,523 Cow Country, Florida	I have an internal (on the board) SAMSUNG (MZ-V7S1T0B/AM) 970 EVO Plus SSD 1TB - M.2 NVMe Interface Internal Solid State Drive with V-NAND Technologyssd in the new i9 machine. I really can not tell much difference than the SAMSUNG 870 EVO 1TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-77E1T0B/AM) Billy New location, new environment, new music coming soon Seize the moo-ment If you feel like you’ve herd all these cow puns before, you probably have deja-moo

Re: Do you think the Internal Solid State is worth the $100 Planobilly #668228 08/12/21 10:02 AM Help! Tech S.O.S (Off topic)
Joined: May 2020 Posts: 1,629 Victoria, BC Simon - PG Music PG Music Staff
Simon - PG Music PG Music Staff Joined: May 2020 Posts: 1,629 Victoria, BC	Originally Posted By: Planobilly Yes agreed Simon. Everything is about money at the end of the day. Two or three TBs is about all I ever need and the data can always stored off the system. I really wanted to know if everyone liked the internal SSD for a boot drive. Billy Oh definitely. I'm not sure you'll find anyone who doesn't like an SSD for the boot drive. That said, I have a pair of 7200RPM 1tb drives in RAID 0 with a hardware RAID controller as the D drive in my gaming machine (C drive is SSD) and those are nearly as fast as the SSD for loading my games from them. Originally Posted By: Planobilly I have an internal (on the board) SAMSUNG (MZ-V7S1T0B/AM) 970 EVO Plus SSD 1TB - M.2 NVMe Interface Internal Solid State Drive with V-NAND Technologyssd in the new i9 machine. I really can not tell much difference than the SAMSUNG 870 EVO 1TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-77E1T0B/AM) Billy Sustained speed is the only difference between those two. Access time is more of the difference you'd "feel", and there's not much perceptible difference there between a SATA and an NVMe SSD. I work here

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