On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:06:32 +0100 Arnold Krille <arnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If you want to use one: Use it for the current projects you are working on. > Leave the operating system on the traditional hdd. You boot your os only once > a day. Once ardour is running, the current project is reading many chunks of > data from different files in rapid succession. Exactly what the main advantage > of ssd is... This is exactly how I've just upgraded my studio machine. I replaced 3 IDE HDDs with a total of ~300GB of storage with 2 SATA drives - a 500GB 2.5" Seagate Constellation and an 80GB Intel X25-M drive. The 500GB drive has 3 bootable partitions so I can muck around with various Linux distros and versions without messing up my real studio environment, and a big partition for general storage. Working sessions are in the /tape partiton on the 80GB drive. I've had three sessions in the studio since the upgrade and it's been working flawlessly, even though it's just got a 3GHz Pentium 4 as the CPU. A side note: since these were overdub sessions, I really didn't want to be around the corner from where the musicians were set up, since I figured that'd hamper communications. X11VNC and my laptop to the rescue! I displayed the studio's desktop over to the wireless laptop, and was able to sit right in the performing area and control the transport remotely. Folks were very impressed. -- ====================================================================== Joe Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - jh@xxxxxxxxxxxx Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user