Superior Drummer 3 installation on SSD drive question…

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  • Walter Gontowski
    Participant

    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

    Henrik
    Participant

    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

    Joseph Teresi
    Participant

    Thank you all for your responses. I just ordered a 1 TB SSD portable drive. Can’t wait to give this a go!

    Joseph Teresi
    Participant

    @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

    Brad
    Participant

    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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    Scott Eshleman
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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.

    Joseph Teresi
    Participant

    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!

    Nicholas DiFabbio
    Participant

    @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.

    rrosin
    Participant

    @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

    rrosin
    Participant

    @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 Wink

    Regards Reiner

    Todd
    Participant

    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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