- Feb 13, 2019
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My external HD is really old (got it from a old laptop) and my Gsmartcontrol program says it did not past 'mustard'. The health tests show it is about to fail and the hard drive lights up red. So I need to upgrade my external HD as soon as possible since it is literally my 'life line'.
I am mostly a music producer and a light/casual PC gamer. I mainly use a external HD as a means for all my music and music production sample libraries...plus all my personal stuff like photos, videos and personal documents.
I rarely put stuff on to the main OS HD. I like to keep the main OS HD as clean as possible and only put software programs that I need/want for music production and a couple games that I like to play.
Do I need a SSD for external storage or will a traditional spinning HDD do just fine...? Will I see any performance upgrades with a SSD over a HDD inside my music making software/Digital Audio Workstation when reading files straight from the external HD...?
I mean...My external HD right now seems like its just a storage device/'catch all' for all my files. So...the only time I need fast speeds is when transferring 'HUGE' files or 'THOUSANDS' of little files to and from the external HD...of which does not happen a whole lot of anyways. Other than that...I really don't see the potential or need for fast transfer speeds with a SSD when a 7200 HDD could do just fine, plus it is also cheaper to buy than a SSD.
On the plus side...my music making software has a really cool feature that lets me put files I use into 'RAM' for use...so technically...I don't need a fast SSD since the files are being read from RAM instead of straight from the HD.
Thoughts, advice, experiences...???
I am mostly a music producer and a light/casual PC gamer. I mainly use a external HD as a means for all my music and music production sample libraries...plus all my personal stuff like photos, videos and personal documents.
I rarely put stuff on to the main OS HD. I like to keep the main OS HD as clean as possible and only put software programs that I need/want for music production and a couple games that I like to play.
Do I need a SSD for external storage or will a traditional spinning HDD do just fine...? Will I see any performance upgrades with a SSD over a HDD inside my music making software/Digital Audio Workstation when reading files straight from the external HD...?
I mean...My external HD right now seems like its just a storage device/'catch all' for all my files. So...the only time I need fast speeds is when transferring 'HUGE' files or 'THOUSANDS' of little files to and from the external HD...of which does not happen a whole lot of anyways. Other than that...I really don't see the potential or need for fast transfer speeds with a SSD when a 7200 HDD could do just fine, plus it is also cheaper to buy than a SSD.
On the plus side...my music making software has a really cool feature that lets me put files I use into 'RAM' for use...so technically...I don't need a fast SSD since the files are being read from RAM instead of straight from the HD.
Thoughts, advice, experiences...???
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