Chris Athens Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Hello I am thinking to upgrade my imac with an ssd. I have found various solutions with various prices. I dont know if it worths to pay for a super fast ssd that both reads and writes fast. In music production what is more important the read or the write speed ? My imac is the 10,1 with a 3GB link speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 In most cases, neither: the seek time is the most important parameter in music production: the shorter it is, the better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Athens Posted January 19, 2013 Author Share Posted January 19, 2013 In technical specifications how the seek parameter is translated ? I looked in various ssd tech specs and there is no seek parameter available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 It's just called seek time. For most SSDs this is really, really short anyway - which is probably why they rarely report it on their spec sheets. Sometimes you get a Read Access Time or Disk Access Time which while not exactly the same parameter, is equally important. For example Tom's Hardware measured the "Read Access Time" of many SSDs in 2009 (not sure if there's a more recent comparison): http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2009-flash-ssd-charts/benchmarks,48.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Athens Posted January 19, 2013 Author Share Posted January 19, 2013 Thank you David. All your info are much appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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