Hi to all Anyone of you using a PCIE SSD over Thunderbolt for samples? I'm thinking about getting a portable PCIE SSD which connects to thunderbolt or a PCIE Box like OWC Helios or Sonnet Echo which would hold an internal drive and give a bit more options for future wishes. What would you recommend? I have a MBP 2015 and am looking for something which would work when I perhaps will get a Mac Pro. It's just rumours but maybe there will be something better and more modular coming in 2018 or 2019 after the trash chan model from 2013. But concerning the subject of this mail I'd like to give some details of what happened to me and why I am searching for professional stuff:
I Bought an Akitio Thunder3 Quad Mini, it's an external enclosure for 4 2,5 SATA drives. And I put two Samsung 850 Pro and two 850 Evo SSD drives into it which I already have. My plan was to have a nice tidy box which would provide a place for my sample libraries, audio projects, temporary files etc. Just want to let you know that I don't recommend this particular setup. I have a MacBook Pro 15 from 2015 with Thunderbolt 2. I connected the Akitio enclosure over an apple USB-C (Thunderbolt 3) to Thunderbolt 2 adapter. (The akitio TB Adapter doesn't work in my case, so best don't bother with it). After about an hour I heard that one of my drives was ejected incorrectly. This happened a few times in random intervals so far, with the Evo and the Pro drives. And concerning the Samsung 850 SSD drives: I once installed the native Komplete 11 Ultimate successfully on a 850 Pro 1TB. After a clean installation of my mac I wasn't able to just install the library files which need to go on the mac internal SSD. So I decided to really start anew and download everything again. Imagine my surprise as Native Access gave the message that there isn't enough free space on the freshly deleted and mac formated 1TB SSD. Indeed, the mac Disc managing tool showed that on the supposed empty SSD would be about 600GB space already taken. Some research let's me guess that this is because The 850 Pro probably aren't apple certified and the mac OS doesn't support Trim for such drives, unless you enable it yourself after each OS installation in the terminal. There might be a Trash folder which isn't really deleted. I tried the Shareware Kocktail which is supposed to be able to delete the trash effectively. But it didn't work in my case. Originally I wanted to be budget conscient and do the best with things I already have. But I guess buy nice or buy twice is really true. So after all this I'm just not willing to invest more time in this setup. I read about PCIE SSDs and think that one for samples would be good to have. Reading speed is just amazing compared to SATA 3. For Project files, temp files etc. I'd still go with SSDs over SATA interface. I read good things about the blackmagic multidock 2. But for my samples I'd like to have something much faster. So, what do you think? Thanks Ben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
