@William said:
I wanted to ask cm if he knows whether it is necessary to store samples on a separate hard drive on the new Mac Pros. I am thinking it would not make any difference because it is all totally RAM? So you could you have a single terabyte flash drive with everything - OS, MIR and samples?
correction: it is not RAM, but Flash connected via PCIe (similar to Angebird Wings) - SSDs contain Flash memory.
so far i couldn't find any ram-disk except gigabyte i-ram, meanwhile considered to be legacy http://www.gigabyte.eu/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2678#ov
as data throughput (on the new mac pro) has been measured 900 MB/s write and 1200 MB/s read i'd assume it is configured as 2 x 512 GB in raid-0 (stripe).
every controller ourdays is using some random-write algorithm to avoid writing to certain memory-cells too often, so data will be spread across all cells from start and things like de-fragmenting or storing data in blocks is history.
not sure though if all will fit on a 1 TB *drive* (system, software, data, recordings, various garbage ...), also consider operating systems tend to *grow* little by little ...
and remember: only a CRAY can run an endless loop in just three seconds.