I just don't get all this raving about SSD disks, has anyone tried using fast SATA drives? I have two Western Digital Cavier Black SATA II drives (3TB) and with 24Gb of RAM, the system never glitches, I have the latency in VE Pro set at 128 buffers (I could use 64, but Vienna Imperial convolution reverbs don't work with 64 buffers).
With cheaper SSD drives at about £400 for a 250Gb, that would cost me nearly £5000 is SSD drives - and that would be 12 of them ! Isn't it better to spend maybe £200 more on some more memory? (that would be high quality matched fast memory as well).
I agree that if I could buy a 1TB SSD for £100, then it might make sense (that's what a WD cavier black costs) - but I really don't see the benefit in them just to save on the cost of RAM, as they cost 50 times more, and their data integrity is still questionable, especially if you are buying a cheaper drive.
So let's try a test, take Vienna Imperial, load the DISTANT position (omit soft pedal - so default setting), mine takes 11 seconds to load, so how long will £5000 worth of SSD drives take? Only run this test once after boot up - otherwise Windows will cache the data and give inaccurate results on repeat loads.