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Hi folks,
Based on my previous thread on whether a better sound card is needed in my PC machine for smooth, non-poppy/crackly solution playback and WAV rendering (really, apparently not), it was apparent that some posters here have good technical background.
So, another question:
I decided to upgrade my utility system on which I had BIAB, and upgraded to win 7 on an AMD 8-core FX CPU, 8 gigs 1600 ram, and a 128 gig SSD to run the OS, and my most frequent smallish programs.
So today, I went to Micro Center and bought a Toshiba 1 TB sata 3 hard disk drive for media, that the tech guy there said was pretty fast with read/write.
My question is, isn't it possible to put the core BIAB executables (guts) onto the SSD, and put all the invoked real-tracks and other midi files (the 60 GB) on the new HDD?
For that matter, does it really improve things like speed of solutions and clear play-back and WAV rendering if BIAB core resides on the SSD? Will having to pull the RealTracks off the HDD be a bottleneck anyway, such that I should just install the whole thing on the HDD for simplicity?
Obviously, I will store my rendered WAV file creations on the big platter drive...
Please advise, thanks!
Jim
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No. If you want to increase speed of Biab, you need to install both real tracks and Biab program on the same ssd drive. I have two computers. On the first computer i have biab program on sad and real tracks on external hard drive. On the second computer i have both biab program and realtracks on ssd drive. But i have the same speed of biab on both computers. Because the second computer is much slower than the first one. But the first computer has real tracks on external drive instead of second that has real tracks and biab program on the same ssd drive.
iMac 27" Late 2015 macOS Sierra, M-Audio Profire 2626, M-Audio-Octane
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Jim, I'm doing what you suggest, with success. I installed BIAB on the SSD boot drive, but the RealTracks and RealDrums are on a fast internal hard drive.
Note that there is quite a bit of BIAB on the SSD. It's a lot more than "the executables". There are not just all the songs and styles that come with BIAB, but also the relatively large .ST2 and .XT2 files, and some .PDFs.
The installer gives you four options. One of them will install everything except the RealTracks and RealDrums on one drive (which should be your SSD) and then put the large RealTracks and RealDrums on a different drive.
For me it works quite well.
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Hi Jim. Nice to see you on this forum. I'm looking at a Toshiba similar to yours. i7, 1TB and 12G ram. Later, Ray
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For my tablet, I bought a 1TB hybrid SSD/Spindle drive. This gives me huge storage space, and moves the most frequently used bits to the Flash. A good compromise.
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SaxGuy, I know you've been here a while, but let me also welcome you to the community. I think you'll be very happy here. I also have an SSD for my OS and programs (only 60 Gb, so I have to stay very lean) and audio files on a 7,200-RPM 1 Tb drive. Works a treat. I think you are going to be very pleased with the results. The rest of my system specs are below. A quad-core 3.3 GHz processor doesn't hurt a bit.  Richard
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