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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.
BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.
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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..
I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
Make your sound your own!
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Bob, right you are. Thanks.
We're a ways beyond my first storage device, a cassette recorder.
BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.
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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... 
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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... Same here! Plus after 30 minutes you prayed that everything loaded correctly!
Whenever I get something stuck in the back of my throat, I dislodge it by drinking a beer.
It's called the Heineken Maneuver.
64 bit Win 10 Pro, the latest BiaB/RB, Roland Octa-Capture audio interface, a ton of software/hardware
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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... Same here! Plus after 30 minutes you prayed that everything loaded correctly! "LOAD ERROR" ...yes, I can't say I miss that 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 Let's know how stable your SSD BIAB runs when you've done it for a while. It will be good info to know Good luck! JEL
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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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