Installing on 250 GB SSD Drive

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  • Henrik
    Participant

    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
    Participant

    Thank you! very useful information!

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    kstevege
    Participant

    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
    Participant

    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
    Participant

    Got it. Thanks!

    - Steve

    Phillip Hanford
    Participant

    “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
    Moderator

    @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
    Participant

    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
    Forum Crew

    >>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
    Participant

    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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