DAW on SSD in 2014?
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I have a Macbook Pro that I've removed the original hard drive from and put a 250gb SSD drive.
Then I took the DVD drive out and placed a second hard drive (1tb 72rpm)
So inside my laptop there are two drives just no DVD drive because no one uses them nowadays anyway and I have an external DVD if ever needed anyway.
From the 250gb drive I run OSX, Logic Pro, Ableton, Pro Tools, Reason, Photoshop etc and tons more. It would definitely be able to handle whatever you can fit on it. Make sure you get max RAM which would help when you have tons running also.
BUT when it comes to the Kontakt libraries I have them on a FW800 External HD because to have them on my 1tb internal would eat up about 70% of its space leaving me with nothing to use for general use of my laptop.
I would say get a 1tb SSD but they are still expensive, maybe look on eBay and see if there is a hard drive caddy that could replace your DVD drive? then you could have two internal 500gb SSD drives which would probably be cheaper than a single 1tb.
Final note, as much as people hate Mac's this is one of their advantages, getting things like a hard drive caddy is easy as each device has a pretty uniformed design.