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) A macbook pro 16 would also be another useful choice as well.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. Perhaps wait for a new model? Speaking of new models (if one must go with Apple) next-gen iMacs may be far more appropriate in the terms of CPU, thermals and w/ a gaming GPU for that matter. Otherwise the mini is atypically Apple ‘overpriced, underpowered, unrepairable’ as some say, but certainly the current i7 spec is quite old in the general PC market. There are certainly many who use the mini for DAW work successfully, but there is also a quarter that signals thermal concerns (depending on how hard you drive it). I suggest the primary considerations here then not be related to GPU but rather: CPU cores /speed ports (as in how many dedicated buses vs daisy-chained ‘virtual’), SSD storage etc. Related, in my experience eGPUs are generally a waste of money and time (for all sorts of reasons, including being vastly overpriced for those models with bundled AMD GPUs OS bugs, stability etc.) Just go with a ‘proper’ internal GPU model in the first place - better value, better performance (relative to the model). Intel UHD Graphics 630 for Cubase or Nuendo should be more than fine. IMO, there is far too much concern about the GPU here, DAWs require very little this only comes into play with film production or gaming. See for example Best Graphics card for cubase? - Steinberg Lounge - Steinberg Forums
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