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In Reply to: RE: SSD Drives posted by Mercman on November 06, 2009 at 13:22:41
I"m not sure what his point is. Does he think conventional hard drives last forever? They have similar possibility for 'failure', even earlier than expected.
I'll take my chances with the non moving SSD up against the moving parts of conventional drive any day of the week, especially given the noise of the latter and the potential for better sound of the former.
Perhaps Steven's music collection can fit on an SSD? Mine can't.
If SSDs provide benefits to the sound (and the anecdotal evidence is that they might) these would seem to be correlated to minimizing the rather more substantial hard drive activity of the OS as compared to the much less significant amount of activity to move the music data (even for hi res).
Use of SSD for music files only would seem to be an irrelevant extravagance, even for you, Steve! :)
So, even if his statement might be technically accurate, it seems to miss the whole point of using SSD. IOW, even knowledge of possible early failure doesn't justify a change in strategy to using SSDs for music files storage only versus the OS, IMO.
YMMV,
clay
Actually, it's not technically accurate. The drive errors don't increase, it just takes longer to write. If the errors were that bad, the drive would be useless.
Edits: 11/06/09
"Actually, it's not technically accurate. The drive errors don't increase, it just takes longer to write. If the errors were that bad, the drive would be useless."
That's my understanding as well, Steve. I phrased it that way to invalidate his seeming conclusion (use SSD for music, but NOT OS) even IF someone thinks his statement is accurate.
I'm aware of the issues regarding the erase functions on SSDs requiring rather large blocks be available for erasure BEFORE new space can be made available for a write.
cheers,
clay
Clay,I forgot to tell you that I think Amarra 1.1 does sound better.
Edits: 11/06/09
Yeah, I thought so.
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