If I have a large music collection how does that work with SSD since the capacity is so much smaller than HDD? Do people use external drives for this?
1969627
I use my ssd just for the OS and programs. Data storage such as music and documents I do one an HDD I have both installed internally.
1969628
Hi Chris--The driving factor will be the size of your collection. This drive is roughly half the size of a electromechanical hard drive. You CAN use data compression tools with this drive. The drive itself is actually better suited to use as an Operating System drive with an external hard drive for your audio material. The benefit to the SSD is that it is extremely fast--roughly 5 times faster in my system-- and it is very cool--the lack of moving parts and motors reduces the heat production significantly. This ALSO reduces the amount of energy required, so your notebook battery should last much longer. Hi Chris--The driving factor will be the size of your collection. This drive is roughly half the size of a electromechanical hard drive. You CAN use data compression tools with this drive. The drive itself is actually better suited to use as an Operating System drive with an external hard drive for your audio material. The benefit to the SSD is that it is extremely fast--roughly 5 times faster in my system-- and it is very cool--the lack of moving parts and motors reduces the heat production significantly. This ALSO reduces the amount of energy required, so your notebook battery should last... » Read More Hi Chris--The driving factor will be the size of your collection. This drive is roughly half the size of a electromechanical hard drive. You CAN use data compression tools with this drive. The drive itself is actually better suited to use as an Operating System drive with an external hard drive for your audio material. The benefit to the SSD is that it is extremely fast--roughly 5 times faster in my system-- and it is very cool--the lack of moving parts and motors reduces the heat production significantly. This ALSO reduces the amount of energy required, so your notebook battery should last much longer. « Show Less
1969629
U can use an external drive or install an internal hdd to your computer and use that. I only use my ssd for the operating system and programs everything else hdd.
1969630
I also have a large music collection. I replaced my hard drive with an solid state drive and re-installed windows. I then replaced my cd drive with a 7200rpm hard drive on to which i placed my music and photos. Laptop now goes really fast.
1969631
I would buy a large external drive. The is much faster than standard hard drives
1969632
Unless you need super fast access or archival protection for your collection I would use a mechanical HDD. The extra expense and smaller capacity of the SDD would be a limiting factor.
1969633
I bought a.256 SSD for my op system and start up.programs and used my HDD with another to.store music pics.etc....works.really well
1969634
using an ssd for music and media storage is kind of a waste of its performance. the ssd will limit your capacity that you could get for the same price or cheaper with a traditional hard drive. the advantage of the ssd is it's speed so it's good for operating systems and programs that take time to load. you'll hardly notice a difference in performance having music on a sdd. the only real advantage would be if you search your catalog a lot as a ssd will be able to search faster.
1969635
My setup would be Desktop: SSD: OS and ProgramsInternal/External Drives: Music/Video. Laptop: OS/Applications and Working File External Drives: Movie, Music, Large files.
855491
Hi Johu, yes, it certainly does, as it is about 25%. However, I strongly recommend using SSDs as you will certainly notice a huge difference in performance, in everything you do. For your information, you will actually have 106GB available. Windows, plus other software installed will take you about 20/25GB, so you will remain really with 80GB, hopefully a bit more. In case you need more capacity for media files, which can take up storage, you can always use an external drive. For me, it's working just fine.
420318
I am using a 500Gb hard drive (the original that came with the Mac). In the original spot I've installed a 320Gb SSD drive. But I believe that if the Hard Drive has the same form factor, it doesn't matter the capacity.
2122463
This looks like a hybrid drive to me. The 8GB SSD drive is for files that are used frequently. It can provide a speed boost when accessing frequently used files/programs. You won't be able to directly access it.
730081
Right now I have on one of mine, 13.9GB of total usable space (the other 2.1BG takes up the operating system). I currently have 4.35GB of free space left open. The other part is filled up with the following content: That includes 113 full albums averaging between 6 to 15 songs per album using 4.40GB of space and 59 music videos that is using 5.12GB of the storage space. The music videos are assorted sizes form 3.10MB to 177MB. I am always adding and removing songs and videos depending upon what style of music I'm into at the time. It's all drag and drop when you sync it to the player in your pc so moving things around is easy. I always try to leave at least 1 or more GB of free space open so that the music videos don't get jerky. I own more than one of these and it's really more about having not running out of battery before I can get back to recharge. Music uses a lot less battery, but the videos can wear down the battery pretty fast. These are small and very portable and I use them plugged into the car stereo for road trip music playlists and while waiting around in long lines, etc. at sci-fi conventions where it's not easy to get back to the room to recharge. Probably TMI but I hope this helps you in some way!
310305
No, you can't (i guess you're talking about RAM). I'm not quite sure about the SSD, but i have a 64 GB Micro SDXC Card in the slot, that's the same amountn :-P and it works perfectly.
1497386
It used to be advertised as 8gb. It's actually a little less (7.6 I think). But it holds plenty of music
1623865
I don't entirely understand the question, but I'll give you my scenario. I have an old computer that was built in 2002, it has a 40 Gb hard drive that is partitioned, and it runs USB 1.1. I also have a new Dell Vista machine where my main iTunes library is stored, that is at a different location so networking isn't an option. I wanted to back up my music, and I wanted to play it on the old machine, so I bought one of these drives for that. Now I don't have to use 16 (or so, I think the actual capacity is 15.something Gb) Gb of space on that tiny hard drive, I can use the USB drive for all my music. It opened up the space on the old hard drive so I don't have to duplicate the music files there. ITunes reads just fine from the flash drive over USB 1.1; it took some work to copy all the files into iTunes from the flash drive though and get it all set up. As long as the drive letter stays the same, iTunes can find the music any time that flash drive is plugged in and play directly from it. I hope this helps.
2261084
Hello Matthew, I unfortunatelly cannot answer your question because I am using this drive in a Mac. The system is completely different and has been implemented to use this drive. At the mac I get 6GB put through and the system itself manages the SSD part of the drive. I have no idea if or how Windows will take advantage of it. Sorry.
2045776
I use mine as a movie and music drive and works great. Another drive was used for my TimeMachine backup and works great.
1918358
How ever you can drop and drag your music. I buy tunes from amazon then export them to windows where I can sync the Sandisk and drag the music I want to it.
580083
This is my first experience with an external drive. I've had no problem with this item. I do suggest you get a larger capacity drive as the prices have been falling lately on the external drives.
1807972
After installing Words, Excel, PowerPoint and some essential applications, you'll be left with about 90 gig of hard drive. I think that's more than enough for everyday tasking. I store about a thousand songs and 50 full HD music videos and it only takes up 20 gig. I still have 70 gig left and don't know how to use them up haha. FYI, with 1 gig, you can store hundreds of words/excel/powerpoint files.
1401932
I can't answer that through a test, as I'm using a Mac Mini with a SSD internal drive that only holds the OS and the program files. All of my music, movies, documents, etc. are on the first external drive, the second is a back-up of the first drive, the third backs-up the internal SSD and the 4th is a time-machine back-up (I don't use the external in a RAID configuration). I can tell you that I do not notice any difference compared to my former MacPro that had internal bays. I just opened my photo library that holds more than 42,000 photos and can scroll through the thumbnails without any lag. I also have more than 23,000 songs in iTunes and when I scroll through that, there is no lag, and all the album artwork appears instantly. I recently commented to a friend who purchased the new MacPro (has not arrived) and ordered the DataTale thunderbolt enclosure that I could not tell I was using an external drive. I also use Aperture for photo editing (large RAW files) and there is no lag when editing. It's a great drive!
1263400
I think the "recommended" max is 16GB (and 8GB for certain kinds of music file formats), but I've seen posts from users who've exceeded the OEM "recommended" size with no problem. I use a 16GB card ... zero problems. However, if you're inclined to try a larger card, I'd stop at 64GB.
2018084
I'm not sure how big a hard drive, I do know that you can only go up to 999 songs in 999 folders. It cannot go higher, it won't display. I would assume that requires a pretty big hard drive.
321805
This model does NOT have internal memory. You need to have your music on a USB stick or SD card. The manual says it will take up to 8 gig, but I've used it with a 32gig card. Not sure if it could read the whole card, but it did work.