DM60
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DM60: If you have any sources on that I'd love to read it. Depending on how many tracks of stored audio you have I would assume the tracks loaded into the DAW would have to be read by the drive (not just stored in memory). I could easily be wrong as I've never read anything that talks about it, just making a guess.
Anything you have that I could read up on would be great though, I'd love to understand it further.
**Edit: I misread, I thought you were saying SSD wouldn't help with performance in audio work, but you were talking specifically about recording latency
In a way I was saying that. The performance gain will be nominal at the level most of us work at. I have a regular hard drive, have 15-20 tracks of audio and I am not seeing any issues. I could see loading a project faster if it were on an SDD, when the DAW is bringing in all of the data at once (maybe 5GB of data), but once it is loaded, and the files are located, it is actually streaming the audio which is much smaller data. Seems like the DAW/drivers guys have everything working rather well.
I am not saying SDDs don't give you some gain (just pure read/write numbers clearly show that it does), I just don't think it is that magical end all, be all, must have essential hardware for the majority of us. I think we over recommended sometimes.