Installing on 250 GB SSD Drive

[kstevege]

I would like to install this on an external thunderbolt 250 gig SSD drive. System requirements on Toontrack website states: “236 GB download and an additional 55 GB for the installation process” Will this be a problem due to the additional 55GB for the installation process? If so, can I split up the installation across two 250 GB SSD Drives?

- Steve

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[Henrik]

The 55 GB is a space required for installers, which can be removed after installation. So a 250 GB external drive is enough for the sound library, as long as you have the required 55 GB on your local disk 🙂 If not, report back here and we’ll see how that can be solved!

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[cynthiamyra]

Thank you! very useful information!

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[kstevege]

Got it. As a follow-up question. Do you think it would be better to install the different sections on 2 or more drives for better performance or does it not matter with ssd drives?

- Steve

[Henrik]

All the parts of the same library has to be installed on the same location, e.g. you can’t, for example, install parts 1-3 on one disk, and parts 4-5 on another disk.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[kstevege]

Got it. Thanks!

- Steve

[Phillip Hanford]

“Of the same library”…. so all my ezdrummer 2 libraries can stay where they are on the local drive,
the SD3 230 GB core library on an external SSD, and SD3 can find them?
Does SD3 have to be set up to know where you stashed the libraries after you put them on an external SSD
or move them around?

[Scott]

@pkh said:
“Of the same library”…. so all my ezdrummer 2 libraries can stay where they are on the local drive,
the SD3 230 GB core library on an external SSD, and SD3 can find them?
Does SD3 have to be set up to know where you stashed the libraries after you put them on an external SSD
or move them around?  

You can link your SDX libraries from the S3 settings page (see manual below) if you want to move them. If you have EZXs installed, S3 will automatically detect their location.

https://www.toontrack.com/manual/superior-drummer-3/9/9-3-settings/#9-3-3-libraries-settings-tab

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Nicholas DiFabbio]

Using 236 on a 250 SSD is usually not recommended:
“As a result of its benchmarks, Anandtech recommends that you “plan on using only about 75% of its capacity if you want a good balance between performance consistency and capacity.” In other words, set aside 25% of your drive and don’t write to it. Only use up to 75% of your drive’s free space and you should maintain ideal performance. You’ll see write performance start to slow down as you go above that mark”.
Get a bigger drive for the drums, you need the drums to react quickly.

[Olof Westman]

>>Using 236 on a 250 SSD is usually not recommended:….

In your quote, note:

>>You’ll see write performance start to slow down as you go above that mark

Nothing bad happens to your read performance and reading is all you
do from that disk.’

>Get a bigger drive for the drums, you need the drums to react quickly.

Also, the disks performance affects the loading time of the drums not
how well they play.

Olof Westman - Toontrack
Coder

[Nicholas DiFabbio]

I wasn’t referring to how well they play, just to the load time, which is kind of important. Of course they’re going to sound the same. The issue of not overloading a SSD is based on multiple sources in literature. Just suggesting.
Thanks

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