Forgive me if this has been asked before. I was looking into purchasing the SSD samples drive for the new superior 3. But I was thinking …can I just buy my own SSD drive and install the samples on it myself? I was thinking of getting a larger capacity drive and put all of my Ezdrummer and Superior Drummer samples on it. Will that work?
Yes you can, but the idea behind the $200 drive from Toontracks was to provide another methof to obtain the samples as opposed to downloading them (a lot of data) from the internet that took me a couple days to perform.
You would have to still download the data and install it on your SSD or some other drive on your computer. So I don’t understand what you’re trying to achieve.
Walt
If you’d like to put all your Toontrack stuff on one disk, then it makes sense to get one big SSD and download the samples. The Superior Drummer 3 pre-configured SSD doesn’t have much space for other stuff – this is to keep the prices for our customers down!
Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack
Thank you all for your responses. I just ordered a 1 TB SSD portable drive. Can’t wait to give this a go!
@Henrik said:
If you’d like to put all your Toontrack stuff on one disk, then it makes sense to get one big SSD and download the samples. The Superior Drummer 3 pre-configured SSD doesn’t have much space for other stuff – this is to keep the prices for our customers down!
I use a USB 3 hub on my computer. I plan to plug my new portable 1 TB SSD drive in this hub (when I get it) Will it work ok? …the SSD drive being plugged into a USB 3 hub?
Joe
Exactly how I run, I have a 1TB USB3 SSD enclosure with my SD3/2 samples attached to a powered USB hub. I also have the same libraries running on a secondary spinning drive, Thunderbolt attached. That is not necessary, just insurance.
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@nexis said:
Thank you all for your responses. I just ordered a 1 TB SSD portable drive. Can’t wait to give this a go!
cool. what drive did you get? I’ve been shopping for one, too.
Running a Mac, so I prefer a Thunderbolt-capable drive,
but curious about what you had decided on.
I bought a Western Digital SSD 1TB portable. It was expensive, but all that I’ve read and the research I’ve done say the larger drives have a longer life span. …fingers crossed!
@Brad said:
Exactly how I run, I have a 1TB USB3 SSD enclosure with my SD3/2 samples attached to a powered USB hub. I also have the same libraries running on a secondary spinning drive, Thunderbolt attached. That is not necessary, just insurance.
I’m not a super techie but I would think the use of hub would not be the optimal choice. Why add any further delay or latency. Plug the drive directly in IMHO.
@difab4 said:
I’m not a super techie but I would think the use of hub would not be the optimal choice. Why add any further delay or latency. Plug the drive directly in IMHO.
I am using an Samsung T3 on a Windows 8.1 PC and can’t see any influence to speed using a hub or not. I get about 430 and 280 MB/s for read and write with and without hub, even when a 4 channel USB sound card, a USB drum module and a USB MIDI controller is attached to the same hub.
Regards Reiner
@nexis said:
I bought a Western Digital SSD 1TB portable. It was expensive, but all that I’ve read and the research I’ve done say the larger drives have a longer life span. …fingers crossed!
SSDs have limits about the number of write cycles per cell and this problems can be reduced if you use a larger drive so there is more free space to spread the written sectors. However even with heavy write load an SSD will last many years and using as a storage for SD3 is the best what can happen to an SSD: large data with near 100% read access.
Of course it’s always a good idea to buy larger drives… e.g. for storing some SDX
Regards Reiner
Am I able to run two drives at once? I’d record on my computer SSD while the drum samples are in the Toontrack SSD. Is this possible?
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