Hello,
I'm thinking of getting a Mac Pro (late 2013, the cylinder type). My current Mac Pro 2009 has VSL sitting on an internal PCIe Accelsior SSD card. I might use this one as a VEP slave, or use the card in an external Thunderbolt enclosure, or get a new external drive for VSL.
Forgive me if this sounds newbish, but I'm lost when it comes to current external drive solutions. In the SSD category, I can only find 2.5" drives (like this one) or RAID enclosures for PCIe cards. I don't understand why there are so few brain-dead external SSD drives with a Thunderbolt connector. Am I missing something? Are the "mobile" SSD drives (such as the LaCie Rugged) suitable for (fast) streaming of libraries? Is there any advantage in having a (non-RAID) PCIe SSD inside an enclosure with a Thunderbolt interface, compared to a regular, non-PCIe SSD?
The question is related to budget of course. I'd get a 4-SSD RAID if I could and wouldn't ask any questions...
BTW, in my current setup the Accelsior handles pretty well everything I throw at it, except in non-real-world tests when I play many notes on my entire template simultaneously (which never happens in real compositions, of course).
Thanks for your help.