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serr · 10-19-2017, 07:31 AM

You've been misinformed. The free space on your SSD will be your high performance audio workspace. For large projects or jobs like recording multitrack while mixing the live show you absolutely want to record to a SSD!

There's no need to make a separate partition either.

What happened is someone played "telephone game" with the old advice for HDD's of using multiple drives for OS vs. data and so forth. A single SSD will outperform that by a large margin. Adding a 2nd SSD would be a moot point unless you were shuttling data around for something way beyond audio work (like raw 4k video editing).

It's recommended to leave around 10GB free space on a system drive for any OS.

I don't have an opinion on the trim business. Apple disables it by default for 3rd party drives because they don't trust that the drives have been qualified for using it. Recommendations are 6 of 1, half a dozen of the other. I've left it turned off (I always buy my own drives) and I see zero performance hit. Unless the premise was to get better than factory spec performance using this but I've never seen that specific claim.

10-19-2017, 07:31 AM	#2
serr Human being with feelings Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 12,632	You've been misinformed. The free space on your SSD will be your high performance audio workspace. For large projects or jobs like recording multitrack while mixing the live show you absolutely want to record to a SSD! There's no need to make a separate partition either. What happened is someone played "telephone game" with the old advice for HDD's of using multiple drives for OS vs. data and so forth. A single SSD will outperform that by a large margin. Adding a 2nd SSD would be a moot point unless you were shuttling data around for something way beyond audio work (like raw 4k video editing). It's recommended to leave around 10GB free space on a system drive for any OS. I don't have an opinion on the trim business. Apple disables it by default for 3rd party drives because they don't trust that the drives have been qualified for using it. Recommendations are 6 of 1, half a dozen of the other. I've left it turned off (I always buy my own drives) and I see zero performance hit. Unless the premise was to get better than factory spec performance using this but I've never seen that specific claim.