Ssd drive speed

[dmcguitar]

I have a 2020 iMac with internal Ssd. I’d like to free space by moving all of my sdx off to an external Ssd. How much of a difference does the drive speed make?  If it’s only holding the sound libraries, core and expansion, does it matter if it’s 2000 vs 1000 mb/s?


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Library drive speed will only affect the initial kit loading (assuming you’re not using the on-demand load feature, and the whole kit loads at once).

you can estimate the loading times by looking at the size of the kits/presets you use and measure the real drive performance.  I suggest not looking at advertising/marketing figures for drive performance, but instead look at reviews of your SSD that contain real measured performance, or use any of several free tools to measure it yourself.

once you have the kit sizes and drive speed, it is simple math to estimate kit loading times (size/speed=time, assuming the units align).  So an 8GB kit will take 13 seconds to load from a drive with 0.6GB/s read performance.

once the kit is loaded, the library drive speed should have no impact on performance since the samples are all in memory.

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