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Multidock not opening9/25/2023 I'm using a lot of Spitfire Audio libraries and they are extremely demanding in terms of polyphony. You can just eject them like a USB thumb drive so moving data around is easy if you do decide to go with RAID. You could always start out non-RAID and see how you get on? Another great thing about the multidock is the drives are hot swappable. Any suggestions for specific pair of SSDs 2.5 that would be fast using samples in RAID? Thanks Mardsy for the reminder! we will be using mostly Kontact native instruments and the orchestral samples are definitely demanding! so, I guess I have to use the RAID 0 configuration in both SSD evo hard drives that stores libraries/sample in that regard! I already bought the blackmagic multidock online and waiting for it, but I still didn't buy any ssds yet. Thanks a lot! I will post insights and pictures of the studio as soon as I finish all the installations! shout out to all of you guys who are helping the community and easing our confusions! They work fine but I'll get Samsung SSDs in future. I have Crucial MX100s in my two MultiDocks at the moment and that's what I used for the stress test above. I don't think there's any point in using the Samsung Pro drives. Some guys RAID up 4 SSDs and get up to 1250M/s! (Personally I believe disk access speed is as important as raw data transfer rate and that's where SSDs shine.) Like many composers, I just use RAID 0 on pairs of SSDs which takes the read speed up to around 720M/s. It limits polyphony and a lot of modern sample libraries are hugely demanding in that respect. The Multidock worked absolutely perfectly.ģ70M/s can be limiting for streaming samples though. Then I added a whole bunch of edits and crossfades which push the disk even more. I recorded 16 tracks at a time until I got up to the HD maximum of 256 tracks at 24 bit 48Khz. When I got mine I stress tested it for recording audio in Pro Tools. One question I have with the MultiDock - what if you don't have all 4 ports with drives in them? Is there a little door that close off the open bay? My studio gets a bit dusty so I worry about things like that. Firewire 400 was way better and could keep up no problem. The last time I used USB2 for storage was on my old Windoze/Sonar 8 system back a decade or more ago and let's just say even then it was a dog. I think Eric might be confusing audio throughput from an interface and drive throughput - one has nothing to do with the other. Lets try and advice members with todays tech. We tried many different ways and the drives kept crapping out so seriously doubt you can use it with larger sessions along with VI and Plugins aswell as sufficient speed for audio tracks as you say. hell we wpuld ha e been glad to get 24 tracks on there so 64. We have large sessions all day long and have used USB2 by force a few times and nothing was working good. You will be a happy camper for sure.Īlso let us know if you need any help going forward :-)Īt Eric : no way USB2 would be recommended to anyone these days and what does headroom have to do with USB connections. Nice to get the updates as to how your system is getting on and please let us know when you start using everything. With that you will have a nice setup and enough to record pretty big sessions as all the drives wont be accessed at the same time lbut would be fine if they were. and I was wondering what are the limitations of 370m/s audio in SSD? are there any other faster SSDs 2.5 that works with blackmagic? this is also the first time we'll be recording large sessions for video productions. I read that samsung pro ssds can only max ~370m/s in JBOD, even with thunderbolt2 connection of the multidock! I don't really want to use any RAID since we really need 4 dedicated drives for our setup. I like the fact the blackmagic multidock is silent and rackmounted plus the thunderbolt connection and the possibility to bay 4 ssds + very affordable!īut my only concern would be the speed when writing/reading Audio sessions. I know it is limited to Sata 3 and I decided to use 4 Samsung 850 SSD pros and evos (2 pros for Audio, 2 evos for library and samples/internal pcie ssd for system & plugins) Hey there guys, I would like first to thank Darryl Ramm and Southsidemusic for their help and the great info they provide! really helpful!Īfter a long search looking out for which external drives I should use for audio and samples, I decided to buy the Blackmagic multidock thunderbolt2 for my mac pro trash can ( 6 core 32gb ram 512 gb ) PTHD and apollo as main interface.
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