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Started by masoumi | | 1 answers
long loading periods and ram-caching times
Hi,
I work with a ram heavy program named fl studio 11.
it's not ram heavy itself but the plugins I use like Kontakt can use LOTS of ram.
here is what I have noticed by looking at "memory" and "disk" sections of task manager:
when I load a plugin that caches for example 300 MB of ram, Kontakt starts reading it from my hdd and caches it to the memory and when done, HDD is free afterwards.
the speed of caching varies by time and average speed of disk during the 10 to 20 seconds it took was about 35 MB/s. this said, another time I loaded a plugin and the speed reached 277 MB/s. and the another time it was 5 MB/s!

so my question is: will buying a ssd solve my problem? if so, in this particular case, which aspect of ssd is more important, "sequential read speed" or "random read speed" ?
here is a picture of loading a plugin to enlighten you.

by the way, it's not the only loading that's slow. when I load Dota 2 it would some times take up to 1 min!
here's some specs:
Lenovo z410
core i5 4200m
ram _ 2 GB + 4 GB Ramaxel pc3 12800
HDD_SAMSUNG Spinpoint M8 ST1000LM024
GPU GT 740m
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a b G Storage
a b D Laptop
October 17, 2014 2:06:41 PM

Well it seems you have a laptop. It only has a 5400RPM drive, which is kind of slow. The problem with replacing it with a SSD is it's hard to find one big enough to act as a primary drive and a storage drive without spending a ton of money. I know some plugins and samplers can take a lot of HD space, and if you only got a 256GB SSD, yes it would be fast and rock out, but I doubt that would be enough space unless you want to drop big bucks on a large SSD or your laptop has a DVD/Bluray drive that some let you remove and add a second HD.

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