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Hi i have 2 i7 sandy bridge servers with 16gb of RAM and a master macbookpro i7 16gbRAM .....the questions are:
1. Can i use all Vienna Symphonic Library SE (all volumes) if i mount in my server an Angelbird Wings system with SSD drives in order to reduce the amount of Ram used for load samples?
2. If i buy Wings and Crest i will not have need to buy other ram expansion? the system should do the streaming directly from SSD disks rather than loading into memory….i think
thanks
No one has replied to this so with my limited knowledge and zero experience with SSD's ;) I will chime in here... I think the idea, or one idea, is to use the SSD to be able to reduce the amount of RAM you have to buy, or use, in your system. I don't think you can entirely substitute one for the other. SSD is not as fast as RAM, RAM is not as cheap as SSD somewhere in the middle find a workable solution. As far as I know VSL software does already stream from the drive - and uses both RAM and the drive to find a balance for performance and efficiency depending on your system. Having an SSD just means that the seek times and read times are much faster than a hard drive, so the software can budget keeping less of the sample in RAM and more on the drive, knowing that it can find it and get it when it needs to. So, for example, if you were going to buy a machine with 16Gb ram and use normal hard drives, with an SSD configuration for your samples you might get away with 12 or 8Gb or RAM, save the money on ram and put it into SSD drives instead. The net benefit is that SSD drives last longer, are less likely to fail than a hard drive and your projects and new articulations will load much faster.
If I got any of that wrong somebody please say so, but that's my understanding of it anyway.
Hi,
Just adding my experience: With SSD drives, you can load up to 10 times more samples into RAM than with ordinary harddrives, as the access time to SSD drives is much faster. A small portion of the samples will still stay in your RAM, though.
Prerequisite: VI PRO.
So 16 GB RAM will be more than enough for all Special Editions. Actually, you should be able to load all samples into 16 GB RAM with a normal harddrive as well. Did you try?
Best,
Paul
