Comments on: Solid “Gold” State Hard Drives

By: djtechtools.com

djtechtools.com — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:00:19 +0000

[...] will be written and read from the flash drives directly. While solid state drives are blazing fast, can they deal with highly demanding audio process like djing on their own? We [...]

By: Chris Da Mentalist

Chris Da Mentalist — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:42:57 +0000

or you could replace your internal for SSD, chuck your old one in an external usb caddy and boot from that one during WORK in the day.

Simples.
Comparrrrrrrrre the hard drives….dot com.

By: Chris Da Mentalist

Chris Da Mentalist — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:41:13 +0000

If you use ur mac in the day for work, and can live with using an External usb DVD read /writer you can get a caddy an install an SSD in where the CD drive lives at the mo!

http://iamthekiller.net/2009/10/dual-hard-drive-macbook/

Install a fresh version of your favoured version of OSX on the SSD and optimise it for DJ ing only!

U can have a stripped down OSX version on the SSD with no wifi – blutooth – printer drivers blah blah blah that you dont need while DJing then you will have a super fast and reliable DJ machine, and dual boot into standard mode off your standard HDD while at work!
Voila – best of both worlds!

By: alang

alang — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:57:20 +0000

http://www.pro-clockers.com/storage/192-wintec-filemate-solidgo-48gb-expresscard-34-ultra-ssd.html

finally something useful for that darn expresscard slot…

By: Nisus

Nisus — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:37:06 +0000

[quote comment="25216"]“I think this is a great article. I have a question though! If I am DJ-ing with Traktor it would save me file access time, however will I run into problems with recording (writing a large WAV file to the HDD)?” I have also the same question????Could you please answer to me….[/quote]

Write speeds are very much quicker than standard drives as well. -Nisus

By: clj nicko

clj nicko — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:11:36 +0000

“I think this is a great article. I have a question though! If I am DJ-ing with Traktor it would save me file access time, however will I run into problems with recording (writing a large WAV file to the HDD)?” I have also the same question????Could you please answer to me….

By: W.T.

W.T. — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:35:23 +0000

Great article I must say. I too am holding out on replacing my old Macbook with a Macbook Pro with a SSD drive, as I want to wait next year and see if prices for SSD will go down. I can see the 3.5 & 2.5 inch hard drives going the way of the dodo in another say 3-5 years time.

By: Pascal

Pascal — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:30:31 +0000

[quote comment="25072"]Not sure if anyone else mentioned this, but E-Sata is retardedly fast and if you pack your gear correctly and ensure its safety you should have no need to upgrade to SSD. Once SSD matures and becomes less expensive, than I can see it being more viable. But seriously 100 bucks for a TB of E-Sata awesome is too hard to pass up.[/quote]

I think the point of all this, is to avoid to hurt your HD. Bringing one other external HD it’s like looking to double your chance of broking your drives.