If anything the plugins may require more recourses. I have to substitute plugins for the 64 bit version of sonar but the best I can judge, there's no big noticeable improvement running 64 bit. I can move a project maxed out, loaded with plugins to the point of becoming unstable, from the dual core to the quad core, open it in the 32 bit version and the recourse levels are identical. My new workstation is a 64 bit quad core that runs the same interface, same daw plugins and I run 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Sonar. In my case my studio DAW is a 32 bit dual core running a USB interface and Sonar. The amount of temp memory the audio drivers need will likely be the same so the data will be buffered in the same ways too. The communication protocol that moves data from the converters to the drives will likely run at the same speeds. If you were using the same interface before with the same drivers, chances are there wont be much improvement on your new computer. Any one of them can bottleneck your streaming audio. There are many other things that are involved in speed, the computer buss, the clock, the CPU, and most importantly the interface port speed.

The drive alone is simply for storage and both onboard memory and the Ram many HHDs have can act as a buffer to allow the heads to read and write faster. If the SSD has high speed memory chips its speed can go up to 500MB/sĮven among the SSD's you have different speeds. A slow SSD may be 200MB/s and a fast HHD can be 120. The actual speed of a SSD can vary quite a bit depending on the chips used and the version.

What the SSD does do is help the computer boot faster and load programs quicker, but I've opened older projects and seen no improved efficiencies. I also have a New workstation which I set up the other way around and its the same deal.

I recently upgraded by DAW's OS drive to a SSD and to be honest I haven't seen any performance improvements in DAW Functionality at all. You shouldn't have any problems writing or playing back files from a HHD.

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