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  • SSD Drive Recommendations?

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    I use two Thunderbolt drives for my VSL libraries (and other libraries as well). Both are LaCie Rugged drives. One drive is 4TB RAID drive and other is as 2GB SSD. Obviously the SSD drive is way faster and that is where I put bigger files (Dimension series, etc.). Those files are large and my SSD drive is not large enough for my entire collection). As you can see in my profile, I am a Mac user and am sometimes working on an iMac desktop and sometimes on a MacBook Pro. Both have 2 Thunderbolt ports. I haven’t asked for help before on this, and probably should have. I expect I will receive advice to buy a PC for use as a slave. I’ve never really explored this, and I would much prefer to find a solution that doesn’t involve a lot more hardware, as I travel and find that my current setup is easy to put in my briefcase and take it with me. Other solutions I should think about/try/look into? Thanks Paul R
  • M
    M

    Hi Paul,

    Just a thought (I don't know if it is a useful one for you): yesterday I looked around a bit on internet and I saw that Samsung has a 4 TB ssd, the Samsung EVO 4 TB (very expensive, but less expensive then many others). It is not with a rugged "box" as your other drives, but I understood, that in general a ssd drive is less vulnerable then a conventional hdd. And you should look to this https://www.macintouch.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=427 for creating a good connection between the sata ssd drive and the thunderbolt port of your Mac.

    Good luck with finding the right solution for you!
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    Many thanks for your reply and the link. WOW...the Samsung is serious coinage. I'm now rethinking how I might use my existing drives more efficiently. It is a bit of a nuisance and time consuming, but I can always swap libraries from the RAID and the SSD, so that my current projects are on the faster drive.

    Paul
  • PaoloTP
    PaoloTP

    Less expensive than the Samsung, but still high-quality (and with a longer declared life span) is the Crucial.
  • M
    M

    Hi Paolo,

    I can't find a 4TB Crucial ssd on the internet. Can you give a link, please? Thanks!
  • PaoloTP
    PaoloTP

    My fault – I was thinking to the 2TB. It seems they don't still have a 4TB.

    Paolo
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    In one of the other forum threads on the Internet, I’ve read that it’s better to restrict using the SSD for Virtual memory. This will make the performance much faster. I haven’t tried this out myself, but it might work. My setup now is a 120 Gb SSD and a 1Tb HDD. It is a compromise between the price and the performance. SDD is for the OS and some daily used programs, but HDD is for big files that I don’t need every day, like tons of my photos. The only thing I’m not sure about is the data recovery. If something happens to the PC, which one of them is more reliable in terms of the possibility to restore the data.