Holy **** mate, your PC knowledge is very lacking. SSD will NOT wear out ever if you buy a good quality one and saving and recording to your operating drive makes zero difference other than being ultra fast. I mean if you buy an ssd from some random outback of China store. Lol. Over still got a pc for recording that has been hard used for years and its the same for all of them now.
Completely wrong
Good quality SSD's have a lifespan
Recording to an OS drive makes a HUGE DIFFERENCE-
AND NOT ONE SOFTWARE COMPANY RECOMMENDS IT or even says to do it
It's nothing to do with speed
You're giving him terrible advice-
anyway- I'll continue anyway....
SSD drives are not made to withstand recording
Last time I checked not one DAW/Recording software company recommends recording to one- in fact they all clearly say not to
LIKEWISE they say don't record to an OS drive- and they've said that for 10+ years
(people complain about protools all day and complain about PC's- but they all don't even follow the directions- I follow the rules- and I've never had a problem and have a set up that can't be beat)
I don't go cheap with my ssd's either- ONLY Samsung PRO no evo or anything else
Regular HDD aren't even made to withstand that constant rewriting- there's a reason WD Purple drives exist
Aside from the fact this guy wants to record band practice- 8 tracks...
If anyone has recorded a band like that before they know the recordings aren't 3 minutes- I've seen bands track an hour plus at that rate- you ring up a 15gb session- and what? 5-10% of your SSD is full?
Furthermore- just doing average pc work on an office computer- no audio- no recording- just simple browsing/average stuff- on a computer for 2 years have put some wear/life on the ssd in it- I don't have the luxury of reformatting every few months or a year, etc-
The way to do it- OS- SSD- record, on a fast speed HDD
That's the way it's done- if you do it any other way- according to every software company- you're doing it wrong
You know that without power some SSD loose the data anywhere from 7 days to 2 years?
The write limits are VERY realistic and VERY doable- especially in audio recording.
KEEP IN MIND anything past a 256gb drive is super expensive- on top of that- if you put the OS on that drive and applications, etc- THEN RECORD ONTO IT- you fill up the drive- transfer to the pc a few 100gb a month and that drive is dead in 2 years
Not to mention- the external thing works much better with bringing it to another computer-
ANYWAY
Most laptops will work
Buy an SSD for the OD
and record onto a fast HDD