Superior Drummer 3 installation on SSD drive question…

[Joseph Teresi]

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?

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[Walter Gontowski]

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]

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
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[Joseph Teresi]

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]

@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]

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]

@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]

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]

@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]

@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]

@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

[Todd]

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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