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I have a Mac Pro 5.1 that I will upgrade to Monterey using Open Core. My problem is where to put the operating system. I can either put it on a m2 nvme drive that runs at 730mps or a ssd that runs at 250mps. Would it be better to have the system on the ssd and sample libraries on the NVME, or...

Hello everyone, I just purchased a Samsung External SSD and I want to move all my sample libraries (which have been slowly clogging up my internal storage) to the new SSD. I have a few questions regarding this and I hope you can help me with them: - Given the newbie way of thinking I had when...

I am running out of space on my Windows PC and I am thinking of purchasing an external solid state drive for more sample libraries. I have a few questions: 1. Is the 'Synchron Hard Drive' that VSL sells ever updated? Like, when a new Synchron product comes out, I'm assuming there's no way for...

Hi! I was thinking about doing a major cleanup of my iMac (Intel) and move my existing VST libraries from an external hard drive to a new external SSD. Do you guys know if there is a simple guide on how to this type of re-location in the most painless way possible? I am probably gonna do a...

Hi, I'm looking to upgrade my current SSD storage (16tb Samsung EVO SSDs in a Blackmagic SSD dock) to something that is silent and portable as I'm running out of space and need to work remotely often these days. I'm on a Mac Studio M1 Ultra by the way. I've heard that a couple of OWC 4m2...

Hey everyone! For the past year, I have been working ''remotely'' away from my studio, and due to this, I have been working from external SSDs. - I have been using a SATECHI dongle to connect to my Macbook Pro. However, I never really liked this setup, and have had my eyes on the Blackmagic SSD...

Hey folks, So, I'm just in the process of reviewing our studio's approach to our DAW setup, templates, storage, etc etc - something we do every year in July. Not just for music but everything, including editing and video production, etc etc. Anyway, as many of you will know, we've been using a...

The title basically says it, but here are the details. I have two computers, and both are able to run my template. One is a Mac Studio, and the other is a MacBook Pro. My problem is this - Every time I open a project on the other computer, kontakt loses a lot if not all of the samples, and I...

Hi I have the Mac Studio Max with 64gb. I have a Blackmagic Thunderbolt bay with space for 4 SSDs. Now recently the whole Thunderbolt system more and more often get disconnected. I have tested the drives with Drivescope and the newest of the SSDs - a 4TB Samsung 870 QVO - shows 322 on the CRC...

TL;DR Version: I have tried to install my sample libraries on a new external 4T SSD three times now, and all three times, the drive became corrupted and unusable while copying/installing files. I returned the SSD for a new one but suffered the same failure partway through loading up the drive...

Hey all, So I just bought East West Opus in the sale. I've been using EW SO Gold for many many years and opus is now a good price so thought I'd finally bite the bullet. However, I didn't realise what a MONSTER it was size-wise. I don't have enough room on my 1TB NVME drive that I use for...

Hello everyone. My ssd died and i could not restore any data on it. I had some vst3 plugins, daw, some vst presets together with windows 10 on this disk. It was 3 years old ssd. I don't want it to happen again. I need some advices about how to store such data and be safe. Seems like i should...

I'm about to buy my first external SSD and read mixed reviews on here on how the T7 has problems compare to the T5. Before I spend money on Amazon should I get the T5 or T7? I will be using it to load a few libraries from Spitfire, Cinesamples & brass from Orchestral Tools. My small setup...

The worst has happened... at least for this newbie who's still wet behind the ears. What do do, what to do? Wallets kind of thin but I'm sure I can get some more funds in by this weekend (which means dig into my toy collection to see which Neca figure is going bye-bye). That's what I get for...

Hi, Just letting people know, be careful when your buying a large size SSD, seems Samsung (who also sell their chips to other manufacturers to use in their products) are doing sneaky things like using the good (nand?) chips for the early part of the storage, but the cheaper or even B grade...

I've used my thunderbay for about a year now with one single Samsung 860 EVO (2TB). Now I upgraded to a second SSD (Samsung 870 QVO 2TB), and since then I'm repeatedly having issues: When I connect the Thunderbay to the Thunderbolt Slot of my Notebook, the Thunderbay keeps starting up and going...

I am looking to sort out my samples, and as a result buy a new SSD (external) that is a good balance between cost and speed. My X299 motherboard has USB-C (and Thunderbolt) on it, so that seems like the sensible way to go for a 2TB SSD drive. In the past I have researched M.2 Nvme but I know...

Hi all, I'm looking at getting Orchestral Tools' Berlin Symphonic Harps as it seems absolutely unsurpassed in terms of realism and sound. However, as always, SSD space is at a premium and that whopping 79GB of samples is not insignificant! Does anyone know if it's possible to just install one...

Oops. I bought some new libraries again, and now I’m out of space (again), both on my system drive and my external SSD drives. I’m considering a TB3/TB4 RAID enclosure for my solid state drives. It's got to be compatible with my older Thunderbolt 2 Macs (via an adapter) as well as whatever...

Hello Everyone, I'm a composer who's learning to score for media, and I really don't know tech. - barely at all. I'm new to all of this and keep finding contradicting posts on what I'll need. I'm setting up my DAW/rig from scratch. For my needs and minimum experience, I'm only considering a...

Hi there, I have 4 x 4tb Samsung SSD's that I use in a BlackMagic TB2 dock to house my samples and I need to buy a backup drive that I can also use for projects should the SSD's fail on me. I have a Backblaze subscription so the important stuff should be backed up on the cloud, but does anyone...

Hi everyone I recently purchased an Accelsior 4M2 NVMe SSD from which to stream samples. It claims transfer speeds up to 6000MB/s, which is in theory much faster than the previous drive I was using, a Glyph Atom USB-C External SSD, which claimed speeds of 960MB/s. However, in practice, the...

Hey all, I recently bought a Thunderbolt dock (a CalDigit TS3) and am running into a hiccup trying to load samples via Kontakt. Essentially, every sample library I own is on an SSD that I have (until now) plugged directly into my laptop, so Kontakt has exclusively used file paths beginning with...

Hey, As this entire site is mostly about gathering new libraries, not sure if I will get much answers. However, new year , new start and all that, I want to really streamline my sample libraries, back up then delete ones I do not use. Having less choice, is meant to help creativity, and...

So I'm using three of these external 1TB SSDs connected via a single USB 3.0 Hub: SanDisk SDSSDE61-1T00-G25 I went with external SSDs because I thought it's very practical when you are switching between two music workstations and don't want to download and organize all your sample content...

Hey all, I got a Samsung T7 external SSD as I needed more space and a faster drive for my new libraries. By default the drive is formatted as exFAT, but I saw mentioned that NTFS is the better format to use, and that there should be a speed increase in loading libraries with that format. I...

Hello, I wonder are there any methods, software, or tools that can re-direct Kontakt to look for samples in a different directory than the one it expects to find the samples at? Maybe a general Windows/Mac software that creates smart files-shortcuts/proxies that make shortcuts appear as if they...

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Hi there! OK. Simple (hopefully) question: 1) Do disk partitions affect DAW/audio performance, or any other DAW performance related metric, negatively? I've had a look, but I haven't managed to find this question being asked or answered. (Please feel free to link me to somewhere where this is...

Hi everyone! I’m looking for a modern audio interface for ideally <£220, to absolute max <£250. I only really need 2 inputs, though 4 would be useful every so often. The attributes I want weighted towards most are equally it's latency/audio-performance etc. (and stability, usb drivers...

SO I've migrated to a new Laptop with only 1tb of internal storage, I'm needing a new external device. I have 3 SSDs and one HDD which sat in my tower previously. I'd really like to still use the HDD so currently my options would be an Akitio TB3 box or a Drobo 5D3 I think. The black magic...

Between these 3 components: RAM, CPU, and storage, what is the order in which they usually crap out when running large templates? I'm curious from a hardware standpoint what the priorities should be when building a system say for VEP. Based on what I read on here, it seems that CPU would be the...

I currently have my main workstation, a VE Pro server, and a Linux server, which host my samples a several SSDs. The workstation and VEP machine are connected to the Linux via infiniband. I originally did this as I figured it would be cheaper than having to buy more SSD each time I expanded my...

I am trying to use an external SSD to hold all my sound libraries. In the past, I have used a regular hard drive and it has worked fine, but with growing size of libraries I thought of moving to SSD. When I moved my libraries (specifically Cinematic Strings) from regular to SSD (both external)...

I'm getting a new PC Slave, Currently been using a single Mac. So my samples all reside on a Mac formatted SSD drive. But I still want to be able to move the drive to my MacBook Pro when I'm mobile. So should I format the sample drive as NTFS and then use Paragon NTFS on my Mac's to access the...

Hello, I want to improve my Sample library loading times and performance, I brought one new large SSD, So I wonder whether it's a good idea to run all my main VST libraries on it, or is it better to split between several drives (includes HDDs)? I know that loading too many instruments from one...

Currently running a laptop with the following specs: Intel i7 6820HK 32 GB RAM 1 TB SSD (for samples - have a separate drive for the OS and other stuff) As it stands 500 GB of the 1 Tb is occupied and I'm expecting this to go up to 700 GB by the end of the year. I am still building up my...

Hi all, I hope this is the right place where to ask this. I have this Mac Pro: Mac Pro 5,1 (Mid 2012) (Silver Tower) 3,33 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon OS: High Sierra 10.13.6 (17G65) My Goal: - Clone the boot drive to a SSD Samsung Evo 860 drive (I have a 2,5'' to 3,5'' adapter to mount the ssd in...

Hi, quick question, how would plugging in a couple of these USB 3.0 docking stations into a Mac Pro 5,1 with my SSD drives work when it comes to working with sample instruments like Spitfire Albion in my projects? Will I come across lots of issues? Or this one...

Just saw a deal on Amazon and got a 500GB drive for $99. This is my first SSD for streaming samples and my Kontakt library is well over 500GB. I was wondering what libraries would best be served by moving them over to the SSD. Thanks for everyones input! P

Hi guys, I'm currently debating whether to get 512GB or 1TB internal SSD for my 15' MBP with 2.6 i7 processor, 32GB RAM and 560X graphics card. I was wondering if people here that are using Macbooks could give me an insight into their workflow and whether it's better to go for 512GB and store...

I have my main operating system installed on a Samsung PM981 NMVe drive. I have one more M.2 SSD slot in my Intel Hades Canyon NUC, and would like a dedicated samples drive to allow Kontakt's DFD feature to save RAM. Is there any point in getting a more expensive NMVE drive for this purpose...

Dear VI-Control folks, Thanks so much for your amazing posts. I learn so much from you! I'm requesting your tech expertise, as I'm about to dive into the world of score composing. Q: I want to install a 2nd SSD into my MBP (swapping out the Optical/DVD) to hold sample libraries. I prefer...

Hello, I ave also bought an external SSD hard drive. Until now I have always stored my samples on an external skinny drive. I use Logic Pro and use basically only Spitfire orchestral libraries that I have stored on the external hard drive. Now I would like to clone the external hard drive to my...

Hi everybody. Long time reading from this Forum. First time asking for help. Intel I7-8700k, Asus Prime Z370-A, 16 Gb Rams, No idea about Hard drives, Should I go with SSD hard drive or regulare ones and how many do I need. Windows 10, Spitefire Albion One, Eastwest Composercloud Monthly plan...

I’m expecting to soon get a new DAW that will have a 4TB internal SSD system drive. My current DAW has a standard internal drive, so I have most of my sample libraries residing on a pair of Samsung T3 SSDs connected via USB. They aren’t the fastest things available, but they have worked pretty...

I have some spare old SATA 1TB drives lying around, and was wondering if would get a slight performance gain if I RAID0-ed them and put my less used sample libraries on them? Currently my less used libraries are on one of the SATA 1TB drives connected via an external USB3 enclosure going into my...

Hi Guy I run in Cubase 9.5.2 a big template for orchestral stuff, in kontakt 5.7.3 and about some week updated my old HDD to a 2 SSD to avoid all killing voices, overload disk, and more efficient in general way, because i think this was my bottle neck, i have a good pc with i7 7700k , 64 gb ram...

Hi everyone, I'm looking to get an external SSD drive as my iMac (mid 2016) is filling up. What would be a good option to go for? I've never ran sample libraries off of an external drive before so I'm not really sure where to start! Thanks!

Have you seen the Intel Optane PCI SSD's. Man these look cool! Plus their's a video on the page of BT and his studio and how he uses the Optane drives. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/gaming-enthusiast-ssds/optane-900p-series.html

This card goes in a PCIe slot in a Mac Pro 5.1 and hosts 2 SSD and has 2 eSATA ports on the front as well. Highest bid above 200$/170€

WARNING! I'm on Windows 7 64, and decided to update my Skype to the latest as I was working on graphics with a client and the connection sucked. Upon reboot, my SSD didn't fire up. It's not showing in Speccy either. Anyone had this happen? I hope I didn't lose everything.

Samsung 850 PRO SSD OR the Samsung 850 EVO SSD ???

My Late 2011 MacBook Pro is dying due to a GPU fault so I'm looking for an upgrade but with limited funds. I use LPX and want to start creating large orchestral projects using EWQL e.t.c. Portability isn't a huge concern - more of a bonus ... My budget is pretty dismal (about £1200) but if I...

I have an early 2009 Mac Pro (running 10.11.6) and I've been using an Angelbird PCIe drive (MX2) as my main sample drive for about eight months now. Last week, however, the drive disappeared from my desktop, and is no longer visible in recovery mode or in the list output of "diskutil list"...

Hey guys, Selling a 2016 slave PC built by Jim Roseberry of StudioCat. Specs below: Platinum Slave - Case: Silent Mid-Tower - Power-Supply: 750w ultra quiet - Haswell CPU: 5820k - RAM: 64GB DDR4/2400 (4x16GB) - OS drive: 1TB 7200RPM HD - Samples drive 1: 500GB SSD - Samples...

While my computer boots off of a SSD, I have used a second internal 7800 hard drive for most of my samples. But I'm running out of space and I'm looking to move some of them to a new SSD. As I'm a hobbyist who rarely uses large templates, the waits have not been an unacceptable problem for...

For the orchestral composers out there..:sneaky::sneaky::sneaky: What do you guys think would be an adequate system to run these libraries together, both loading the patches and playing back? Strings: CS2, CSS Brass: Berlin Brass Woodwinds: Spitfire Woodwinds Percussion: Berlin Percussion...

I bought this mac 1 year ago - new assembled from new Hardware and just the case is old and has some scratches. CPU: 12x 3,33Ghz (XEON 5680) RAM: 48GB Festplatte: 256GB SSD + 2Tb HDD Grafik: ATI 5770 1GB OSX: 10.12.2 Incl. Mouse, Keyboard, Bill, Packaging Price: 2950€ Optional: Sonnet PCIe to...

I'm considering a 2TB Samsung 850 Pro or Evo SSD for my Mac Pro 4,1 (early 2009 model). I would be using the drive for sample storage. It appears as if the drive should be compatible with my Mac Pro, and that it's TRIM-enabled out of the box, but I'm curious if there are any Samsung 850 users...

Hello fellow producers and composers, I'ld to know if there's any brand/model to avoid at the moment for a SSD 960/1 t range, for streaming my Kontakt3d party virtual instruments ? Thanx for any feedback ! Erik

I already own 2x 850 PRO for system and projects. I am seriously thinking about buying others high-end SATA 3 SSD's to stream my Kontakt based libraries (my PCIe NMVe slots are full of 512 GB 950 PRO). I almost bought a pair of 512 GB 850 PRO but I have found this accurate bench of the 850 PRO...

Hi Guys, Anyone purchased or looking to purchase this NMVe drive? If noone has heard of it, is the successor to the Samsung 950 Pro. https://www.ramcity.com.au/upgrade/data-storage/internal-solid-state-drives/samsung-sm961/143419 Definitely thinking of purchasing one myself, most likely for...

Hi I have all 4 storage slots in my MacPro 2009 occupied, and need some more SSD storage for streaming samples. I seem to remember that I can put a special card in my MP I can have some kind of external SSD running. Has anyone tried that and have any recommendations?

Hey guys! I need to know how many WAVs (5.1, 24bit, 48khz) does a average SSD (Samsung Evo 750 class) handle simultaneosly? A guessing number could helpful too?

Has anyone tried using a RAID0 with SSDs drives in their Macbook Pro. I want to have a portable setup with as much performance boost as possible. So I have a caddy drive bay in my 13-inch 2012 Macbook. I'm going to add an extra SSD and stripe them in a RAID0 to get the most read and writes...

Hello forum. I've ran into a little problem with my new external SSD (1TB). I've moved my sample libraries to it, and the libraries under the "libraries" tab in Kontakt are working just fine (HZ01, Spitfire Symphonic Brass etc.). But my SSD doesn't show up under the "Files" tab, so I'm not able...

Hi everybody, I have a blackmagic multidock with 4 ssd and now I’m running out of space. I was thinking about replacing one of my 240 Gb ssd with 1Tb ssd and a silly question came to mind. If I replace the ssd where I have all kontakt libraries that don’t require to be authorized (the ones you...

I just purchased two Samsung Portable SSD T3 drives to stream my samples when I am on the road. The drives come formatted ExFAT, which to my understanding allows them to be read by both OSX and PC. If I am using these drives to only read/stream samples, is there a better format I should be...

I am preparing to purchase a new iMac 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display and upgrading to the 4.0GHz quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 4.2GHz to use with Logic and sample libraries. I have two questions regarding both the memory and the storage. First of all I've been told that...

as the title indicates: is it of any use to differentiate the main OS from the streaming of samples? Or would it not make any difference? Main reasons: that the samples don't get scattered around the SSD, and therefore no delay in streaming speeds. Or would you even discourage to stream from...

Hi, I mainly use Kontakt libraries (Spitfire Albion, BML, Percussion, Project SAM Symphobia, some Sonokinetic stuff, Orchestral Tools Woodwinds, etc...) and EWQL (Orchestra, Stormdrum 2, etc...). I have already installed a Samsung in my M.2 slot (but not tested yet with this new built) and I...

Hi Guys, I've got a Macbook Pro 2012 with a 2.5Ghz i5, 16GB RAM and 250GB Crucial SSD I've also got an HP Probook 450G2 with a 2.4Ghz i5, with 16GB RAM, and 250GB Crucial SSD. I'm wanting to set the two up together in a master/slave setup. You think I'll be ok with performance with these two...

Hey guys, I have a Thunderbay 4 here that I'd like to use with SSDs. Was wondering if any of you who have one have had any luck with disconnecting the fan on the back? It's far to loud to have in the studio while recording. From what I know, SSDs don't get very hot. The Black Magic Multi-dock...

Hi Looking to buy a thunderbolt enclosure for ssd drives. The Black Magic looks the best option, but was wondering if anyone knew of any alternatives? https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/uk/products/blackmagicmultidock Thanks in advance, Ladies and Gentlemen!

Hello, So, I'm getting a weird behavior in Vienna Ensemble Pro (it's been like this for a while). I'm getting really high readings of DFD inside Kontakt, but only when I host Kontakt inside VEP. First time I noticed this was with Mural Strings, as soon as I deleted them from VEP and hosted them...

Hey all, I'm one of those folks who has been updating their Cheesegrater Mac Pros in recent times, I'm currently rocking the 12 core 3.46GHz setup with 32GB Ram and a bunch of SSDs. I have a Protools HDX card and two UAD Octos in my machine, so wasn't able to add any fast storage via PCIe...

Hi I'm about to invest in another SSD, this time a 2TB Samsung. I wonder if anyone here can recommend the Pro version for the standard. The price factor is about 1.5, so it's still a decent amount of money.

This may be an (too) specific question regarding a setup I use on a relative older model MBP for live usage: MacBook Pro (15-inch, medio 2010) 2,4 GHz Intel Core i5 8 GB DDR3 It's internal HD is of a lousy (!) 5400speed so I use an external SSD via USB2 (!) for sample streaming. Contact runs...

can any of you IT knowledgable members confirm or not whether SSD via USB 2 is enough to stream samples via disk? Thank you in advance

other than booting up faster, are programs significantly faster on an ssd? if you're using a slave, do you need to have vep on an ssd, or does that not really matter if it's just there to play back samples?

So, if a computer had 2 PCIe SSDs in a raid 0, would it be able to do with less ram? because it's able to stream from disk so quickly? in other words, machine a has 32gb ram, 2 x 512gb PCIe in a RAID 0 machine B has 64gb ram, and a regular SSD which will be able to handle heavier / more...

I have a quick question about upgrading my 2010 Mac Pro (Quad-core) to two 240GB SSD drives. I currently have 32GB Ram in the system. Here are the two SSD's I am going to be putting into the system: http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/SATA240SSD (Are these any good?) I wanted to know if I...

Hi all, re-posting in the correct forum. I'm looking for an external SSD for my mobile rig. I have an aging MSI laptop with 16GB of ram and moderately fast i7 processor, sorry but I don't have the computer specs in front of me at this time. My 1TB 7200 rpm drive is getting full and I would like...

If you don't know what they are, look up the Intel 750 SSD series. They are basically the fastest SSD's around and blow traditional SATA speeds out of the water. I just found out about these and I am tempted to shell out the money and have superior performance. Is anybody using one to load...