Hello everyone,

I curently have a computer with SDD on which I have 128Go of space, cubase and a few library are the main things on it.
When loading a library, it only takes a few milliseconds, this works great.

For additionnal library, I use an external hard drive, from WD, not in SSD.
I would like to know if you think that it's a good idea to buy a new SSD external Harddrive in order to have the same speed on my computer ? Or will i be limited by the speed of the usb 3.0 ?

If anyone has suggestion, please share them ! Tks !

vic

 

On principle I'd recommend to buy an internal SSD, but I think you really want an external drive.

An ext SSD is faster than a ext. HDD, but I just today came across an article where they measured than hardly any ext. SDD could make use of the full USB 3.0 speed, surprisingly. But this article is 12 months old now, so that maybe has changed. I'm still researching.

 

ok what i did was buy a PCIe card that It holds M.2 drives The one I got holds 4 nvme cards I had 4 X 250gb drives lying around so I used those
Later on when the 1 and 2 TB drives come down I can add
then I then used Windows 10 pro storage spaces to make on large storage drive


This is a a 2 drive i bought

EZDIY-FAB Dual M.2 Adapter,M.2 PCIe NVMe and PCIe AHCI SSD to PCIe 3.0 x4 and M.2 SATA SSD to SATA III Adapter Card
Sold by: EZDIY-FAB
Return window closed on Jul 30, 2020
CDN$ 26.99
this one you can mic drives

Heres my 4 drive one


SEDNA - PCIe Quad M.2 SSD SATA 6G 4 Port Raid Adapter with HyoperDuo Hard disk acceleration function (SSD not included)
Sold by: aticas-shop
Return window closed on Aug 1, 2020
CDN$ 158.25V

hope that helps these are nice and fast 6gb transfer

You can add as many cards as you have slots for them

 

Thanks for all of your answers, @Pure Energy i think this is way beyond my technical capacity, i'm trying to find a external drive that i could take with me during my travels ;)
From what you're saying @No Avenger , even though they do not use the 3.0 full capacity for transfer, they're still faster than a HDD, so i think i'll go and buy that ;)
Anyone else has done this or has any tricks ?

 

Thank you for your infos !
I'll go for that, for now 500Go SSD will do fine ;)
Thank you everyone !

 

@Polomo 's answer is good, but also keep in mind what @No Avenger said. If this disk is gonna be external you're limited by your computer USB port.
This is not saying it shouldn't be an SSD, but what I'd do is to buy an slower and perhaps bigger one. A regular SATA3 one for instance.

 

Ah, yes, I forgot to mention (effin 220°F here) for round about 60% of the price of an SSD, you'll get a HDD with fourtimes the capacity. So, for storage purposes I'd go for a HDD.

 

The thing is that storage is not my #1 preoccupation, 500Go is clearly enough for me, i already have all my library i need in 300Go storage, so i just need something faster and with 20% more storage in case i come across one or two nice library
I think i'm going to go for my passport SSD with 512Go from WD
Is there anyway i can know the speed of my usb ports ?

 

After checking the WD website, you're right, the 2To HDD is the same price... I'm now hesitating lol

 

I saw and was talking about this:
- Samsung MU-PA1T0B/EU Portable SSD T5 1TB USB 3.1 Externe SSD 133,90 €
vs
- Intenso Memory Case 4TB Externe HDD (6,35 cm (2,5 Zoll) 5400 U/min, 8 MB Cache, USB 3.0) 86,94 €

Therefore 60% and fourtimes the capacity. But that was just a quick look.

 

That's an usual dilemma. Choices are a bitch sometimes

But if you're going to use that external disk for loading Kontakt and other big libs, SSD is almost mandatory.
As @Polomo pointed out:

That's even more important for using a Kontakt library that the raw speed.

 

Whot????? Isn't that a typo?? Where are you Noa, in the Earth's core????

 

Ok, that was maybe a little over the top. It's just 99°F here - in the fridge.

 

Yeah yeah, only a little lol.
Here we have 84 F which is like paradise so it won't last but 65% humidity. I've "pressed" several times already the cell keyboard with drops of sweat (true history).

 

Last edited: Aug 8, 2020