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by jobjh797878 4022 days ago
There's no reason to put a sample library on an SSD.
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Actually there are tons of reasons.

You don't want to bring around extra drives and cables when you perform.

You don't want vibrations, bad handling etc while performing / touring etc, to crap your HDD.

You get much much faster random reads, which is what playing large sample libraries is all about.

There would be for me if the price of SSD's come down enough. With my 2011 MBP and RME Babyface taxing the computer a bit too much with USB 2.0 context switching, my 120gig of samples streamed from disk would help while running this all at 96K.
Truthfully, I never considered this use case. Are you saying the computer is taxed because the USB controller is saturated?
I put all my sample libraries on SSDs to cut down on project load times. It helps immensely.