johnstump_organist wrote:I've ordered an Mercury Accelsior PCI express SSD with 960 GB capacity. From what I've read and researched and people here have recommended, I think it will do the job. Once I get it home to Mexico and installed and the organs re-cached to it, I'll let you know if it was worth it.
John
Dear John,
I am using this one for a year or so, and it works perfectly in my Mac Pro. Using for booting, office and mail, and so on and of course Hauptwerk working files (organ caches). However, to take maximum use of the read/write speed all parts of the equipment should be in tune
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To show an example, loading Zwolle V2.5 full surround, 20 bit compressed. When uncompressed you will achieve again higher performance.
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Organ ID: 001697.
Organ ver.: 2.51.
Organ min. Hauptwerk ver.: 4.0.0.000.
Mem.: total raw audio/trem. sample data mem. (excl. pre-proc. audio, images, or other data): 21694.09 MB.
Mem.: overall compression ratio for compressed ranks: 48.68 pct.
Total time: overall: 87.008 sec.
Total time: sample data: 82.968 sec.
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Sample loader: loaded from data cache: Y.
Sample loader: data cache total disk size: 22044.76 MB.
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Sample loader: approx. avg. overall data read rate: 265.70 MB/s.
Sample loader: approx. avg. data read rate during disk reader activity: 2207.07 MB/s
Fokko