I think FANCY CACHE should be advertised on the PRO AUDIO FORUMS, and especially on (home of EAST WEST PLAY) The first time I load the song, I can see no speed improvements, but when the song is loaded, everything runs very smooth from the cache drive and i can stream 6x or 8x more samples than before ! Now, with FANCY CACHE, I just setup my HDD RAID 0 array to use another SSD RAID 0 array as a cache disk.
You had to copy huge parts of their library which includes lots of unused files that wasted SSD space That was ULTRA boring and slow, especially when you switch songs very often.įurthermore, the software EAST WEST PLAY doesn't provide an easy way to extract the files from one instrument only. To work on a song, I therefore only use around 60Gb of my huge 2.4 Tb libraryīefore using FANCY CACHE, the best way to get good performance was to copy the 60Gb of needed files to the SSD drive manually. It depends on what virtual instruments you're loadingĪ single instruments never uses more than around 3.000 or 4.000 files and one composer never uses more than 15 or 20 instruments in a single song. Indeed, the first thing to know about these sample streaming softwares is that they never use all the 1.200.000 files at the same time. It offers me the possibility to use an SSD as a cache for my HDD RAID 0 arrayĪnd this is a major performance improvement ! The problem is that there samples libraries are huge and I really can't afford 2.4TB of SSD storage ! Therefore, all these software programmers recommend using SSD drives because of their slow access time on tiny files.
Streaming those files from standard HDDs is quite slow because of the large number of tiny files, even on my 4x1Tb RAID 0 setup (LSI 9260-8I MEGARAID card) These virtual instruments are streaming a lot of tiny files from HDD I'm using softwares like EAST WEST PLAY, NATIVE INSTRUMENTS KONTAKT and VIENNA SYMPHONIC LIBRARY I just discovered the software FANCYCACHE and I think it can provide me great performance improvements for my PRO AUDIO setup
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