SSD as OS drive made a big difference in sound

[charliemb]

Hi All

Just here to report an important finding.  After running without a backup of my system for years I decided to back it up.  I bought an SSD drive 500GB to back up my 320GB spinning 2.5" disk.

Well after I cloned the disk with CloneZilla I tried it.  This is easy to do because with the XXHighEnd PC the OS disk is on a removable tray.  I was going to make periodic backups to this drive but instead I found that it sounds much better than the spinning drive.   So now I'm using it as my main and will need to buy another to do rotating backups.

Anyway,  in case it matters,  it is a Crucial, about $114 USD.
     Crucial MX500 500GB 2.5 inch SSD

I thought I had read that the opposite was true.   That's the way it is with audio I guess.

[PeterSt]

I thought I had read that the opposite was true.   That's the way it is with audio I guess.

Hi Charlie,

Yes, this was the status (quo) of say 10 years back when the SSD was new. And, I (or we) already knew that with time progressing, new SSD techniques came about and from there on YMMV from week to week. Personally I never tried it because from theory the SSD is wors (less even current usage). But this is theory and it will highly (!) depend on the remainder of your system and how the SSD relates to that in terms of current usage. And not only "system" as such as it can go beyond that (like with BIOS and even software settings).
And so I gave up on that ling ago and came up with the RAM-OS Disk. This is there now for what ? ... 3 years ? 4 ? but anyway preceeding that was 2.5-3 years of getting it done.
IOW : With the RAM-OS Disk you remove the HDD or SSD after booting and there is nothing (OS is booted from RAM). And now it has to be better because there's just nothing there. And if it is not for the better something else is going on and you'd "need" to find it.

Best regards,
Peter

PS: The RAM-OS Disk (in SSD form) costs 370 euros and is preloaded with W8 and 3x W10 build and activated XXHighEnd.