Recording Hard Drive Question

[EtherealEntity]

SATA is the best option. SSD is generally not a great idea for Audio Drive as they die quick with that many writes. Use SSDs for drives that generally don't change.

[DAW PLUS]

Don't worry about SSD's dying that fast, I think people are overpanicing.

Avid doesn't support SSD at all, not even as an OS drive. That being said, just do a test recording to both the SSD and the RAID array and check what works. Our systems typically come with a very similar configuration, where recording is done to the RAID-1 array. 150 tracks no issue, but it depends what drives you use.

[WhiteSoxPanic]

Originally Posted by DAW PLUS

Don't worry about SSD's dying that fast, I think people are overpanicing.

Avid doesn't support SSD at all, not even as an OS drive. That being said, just do a test recording to both the SSD and the RAID array and check what works. Our systems typically come with a very similar configuration, where recording is done to the RAID-1 array. 150 tracks no issue, but it depends what drives you use.

So Pro Tools will not work if I install it to my SSD? What specs should I have in my SATA HDD? 7,200rpm 64mb cache? Any recommendations on drives in particluar?

[DAW PLUS]

Originally Posted by WhiteSoxPanic

So Pro Tools will not work if I install it to my SSD? What specs should I have in my SATA HDD? 7,200rpm 64mb cache? Any recommendations on drives in particluar?

Sure it will work. It is just not officially supported. A 7200RPM without energy saving stuff will do the job just fine.