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I've just upgraded my laptop with a SSD instead of the DVD, as the primary disk where the OS and programs are installed, and the former C: drive is now E:. My question is: should I move all that's in E:bb to C: to make BIAB work faster or is just a waste of time? If it's better to do so, is there a strategy to move all that data? Or I must re-install everything from scratch? Inquiring minds would like to know. 
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Your experience booting and running Windows from the SSD should convince you there is a substantial benefit to using an SSD.
I copied files, and did not reinstall the whole program. You will need to do the minimal install option, though, to get fonts etc. onto your new boot drive. Use the one that says you will keep your RealTracks and RealDrums in another location.
The practical problem you face is that BIAB is too large to fit on many SSD drives unless you bought a huge one. It certainly won't work for me with the audiophile version, where those RealTracks and RealDrums files are 11 times larger than in the regular version and come on a 1.5 TB drive. So, what to do?
I have an SSD boot drive in all my computers now. For my music computer, I copied all of BIAB to the SSD EXCEPT the folders for RealTracks and RealDrums, since the program allows you to specify other locations for those in Preferences. I put the RealTracks and RealDrums on a fast 'regular' hard drive.
In general for decisions about SSD drives, it is preferable to put files you read from, but don't write much to, on the SSD (just because of the nature of it, and a finite number of Writes allowed). RealTracks would be a perfect fit, if they weren't so large. However, on newer SSD models, it seems there are enough Writes available before failure that the drive will outlast me, so I'm not terribly worried where things go anymore.
Two other tips:
If you replaced the boot drive with an SSD, you must go into Windows to TURN OFF DEFRAG for that SSD drive, to prolong its life.
You should also check to see that ACHI is set to ON for any older computer. This one is more complicated and requires Googling the steps. It will give your SSD a substantial speed boost, though, if you need to do it.
Last edited by Matt Finley; 06/21/15 06:23 AM.
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Everything works better on an SSD!
I have Band in a Box and all of my DAW files on one 1TB SSD. Check out the new Samsung 850 EVO SSD's, they have really come down in price.
I find loading large files like realtracks and large samples for sample players is really fast on an SSD. If you have the space on your SSD, try copying some of the large files over and see how fast they load and how well they play.
Once you get used to the speed of an SSD you will never go back.
As far as limited writing on an SSD, I wouldn't worry about it. Recent tests were done with the leading SSD's and they found that you can write over 750 TB's of data to it before the drives start to show any signs of wearing out. In fact, the Samsung 840 (the old model) went to 2 PetaBytes and was still running fine. The 850 is supposed to have even better writing capabilities.
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I put the RealTracks and RealDrums on a fast 'regular' hard drive. That's a good idea, Matt. BTW, where is the RealDrums folder? I've found the RealTracks folder inside the bb folder, which in my case is 63GB just for the RealTracks, but I don't seem to be able to find the RealDrums one. Can you help? Pretty please...?
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The RealDrums folder is just called Drums.
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The RealDrums folder is just called Drums. Is it? Sneaky... 
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It is. I suppose it isn't consistently named because RealDrums came first and we had that for a couple of versions before RealTracks? Anyway, now you can proceed.
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