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Foog
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vkuehn: My rationale for asking the question is that my MacBook Pro has a nice, lovely quiet-but-expensive SSD drive in it already. People keep telling me I shouldn't use the system drive for recording. Which makes sense - if I could spare that drive the constant erasing, writing and rewriting of data that occurs when I record and edit, then it will last longer. Hence my musings on whether a flash drive would serve. (just to reiterate because I love repetitive redundancy: not simply for storage, but as the working drive that I record to.)
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vkuehn
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| Foog wrote: | | vkuehn: My rationale for asking the question is that my MacBook Pro has a nice, lovely quiet-but-expensive SSD drive in it already. People keep telling me I shouldn't use the system drive for recording. Which makes sense - if I could spare that drive the constant erasing, writing and rewriting of data that occurs when I record and edit, then it will last longer. |
When new technology arrives, there is a period of time when rumors and folklore are part of the conversation along with fact.
The reading I have done also indicates that a SSD is best suited for storing program files and data that is more static but needs quick access. "They say" (whoever they is) that erasing and rewriting of a SSD does cause some wear and deteriaration. and will hasten the time when the drive fails. Others say: "Don't worry, your machine will become obsolete before you can possibly use up the available read/write cycles. So I understand your concern about maybe moving the current very active files to another drive.
And I realize there is no fact or folklore to back up my prejudice that thumb drives are probably slow and klunky compared to good hard drives. All of this conversation is driving me toward getting out a thumb-drive and letting it be the drive-of-choice for a recording session or two just to watch it perform. If I blow it up, it's not that expensive to replace. If it is too slow, just move on to another experiment and exploration. |
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