How to Speed Up Your Solid-State Drive

Interesting article:

http://www.howtogeek.com/270358/

Rgds,
Ed

Another good article re SSD:

http://www.howtogeek.com/165472/6-things-you-shouldnt-do-with-solid-state-drives/

Rgds,
Ed

Unfortunately I get a "side by side" error and the solution appears to be a change to the registry. I'm going to pass on this.

Very interesting.

Would reformatting and partitioning the SSD before using it get the partitions aligned correctly?
If not, why not?

Surely the makers of SSD's must know about this alignment problem. (If it really
is a problem). I would like to see some figures showing how much speed is gained by
realigning partitions before jumping to any conclusions.

I have always thought, and still do, that the many disadvantages of an SSD outweigh the
single (speed) advantage.

csw900

I would differ about disadvantages with SSDs. Used only to store HW caches they are essentially only written to once for each organ. From then on the read (and speed gain) each subsequent time you load an organ does not really affect the SSD. It is constant writing than becomes a problem. So I wouldn't put an operating system on the SSD to speed up booting since the OS writes to a drive often.

Rob

If you are using your SSD to store only the HW caches could you not use
a 128GB usb3 memory stick to do the same job? These are cheaper and much
easier for non technical users to use.

I have looked through the HW manual and did not find any option to store
the cache/s anywhere other than where HW chooses to put them.

Do you install the whole of HW on the SSD as well as the caches?

csw900

When you load HW itself there is an option of where to load the caches. I can't remember exactly because it's so long ago.
No I didnt install HW itself on the SSD. No need. It's only the loading of an organ that is slow. And I want to be able to switch from one organ to another when the mood strikes or I decide to play something not suited to the currently loaded one.
I don't believe any memory sticks would take advantage of USB 3 speed so as to be as fast as an SSD.but I could be wrong.

Thanks for the quick response.

I do not really want to reinstall Hauptwerk every time I move my cache. I am pretty
confident the path will be in one of the configuration files and can be edited. I have
just had a quick look and various paths are listed but not the one I need.

When I discover how to move my cache I will do some experiments with usb3 memory
sticks -- they are FAST.

Does ANYONE out there know how to change the path of my HW cache without
reinstalling HW.

csw900

Does ANYONE out there know how to change the path of my HW cache without
reinstalling HW.

Yes.

Thanks OrganoPleno, if that someone is you then please tell me how to do it.
If you do not want to make it public please send me a personal message.
If necessary you can get my email address from "About" on my web site.

Thank you

csw900

No thanks to OrganPleno who clearly does not know how to move the cache
without re-installing. I have found out for myself.

I can now do some experiments with usb3 memory sticks.

csw900

In the HW user manual (page 25) it says

Changing installation locations
If you have Hauptwerk installed but you want to change the locations you installed it to, you will need to re-run Hauptwerk's installer, selecting the Custom option in the installer, which allows you to choose where to install. The installer will attempt to move your existing installation's folders to your newly-selected locations and update Hauptwerk accordingly.
We strongly recommend using Hauptwerk's native backup functionality (File | Backup your Hauptwerk settings and personal data, covered in the Backing up and restoring your settings and data section), and making sure you have the original installation media for all sample sets to hand, prior to re-running the installer to move folders, in case anything goes wrong during the moving process (for example, in case storage space runs out, or some sample set files or folders can't be moved because of insufficient permissions, or the computer ‘times out’ some part of the process, or the computer goes to sleep).

This does not reinstall but allows you to change the location of key HW datasets (including the cache files).

The manual includes a good index which can help you find this sort of thing. (RTFM, read the fine manual)

I trust this helps.

Iain

Thanks Iain

I've already RTFM but your useful comment may move others into experimenting with usb3.

At the moment I'm trying to measure the speed of my usb3 ports and memory sticks using
SpeedOut_0.5.exe but it does not appear to work. for me.

csw900

I now have my Windows organ running with its cache on a cheap 16GB usb3.0
memory stick. This was far cheaper than even a small SSD would have been.

Moving the cache and reloading the organ took about 15 minutes.

The organ now takes less than half the time to start up than it did with the cache in
Hauptwerk's default (C:\drive) location.

csw900

Interesting. Which organ? Do we assume you moved the cache for only the one organ (in 15 minutes)? How much space did that cache use on the thumb drive?

Rgds,
Ed