wizardofoz
March 15, 2018, 4:36am
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@maximasr Rick makes an interesting post here…Those who are hell bent on SSD for music storage will no doubt not be so interested perhaps…but everyone is entitled to their own opinion which of course is always right
FYI: there is no need to go to an ssd for storing there music, what a waste of money. Also, when you see vendors touting ssd for caching music, like the aurrender servers, IMO, that’s a gimmick.
I worked for a company that sells ssd to large corporations and ssd are great at doing certain things, playing music isn’t 1 of them.
The best server is 1 used out of the audio room. Never place a server in the room, that’s why you see people selling bridges which allow you to put a server in a different room/floor of your house.
Back to ssd, music files are so small, a good hard disk will read the full music file in 1/2 disk rotation. Also, when a server plays the file, it stores the file in real memory and it is played from real memory. So why would you want to use an expensive ssd to cache music? With ssd, you have so much overhead for writes called write am-lificarion, you also have to do system trims to clean up the ssd in the background, and the ssd is only good for X number of accesses then it’s useless, all this is determined on how good the ssd is. The cheap ssd that are used in pc’s/macs and in music servers, are the cheaper 1’s that don’t have the overprovisioning that your commercial ssd have.
