Solid state hard for Korg M3

biggrime · Post by **biggrime** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:17 pm

How anyone tried installing a SSD in a external case and plug it in a M3 to see if there is a improve performance? Would the M3 even recognize a SSD?

biggrime · Post by **biggrime** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:19 pm

biggrime wrote:How anyone tried installing a SSD in a external case and plug it in a M3 to see if there is a improve performance? Would the M3 even recognize a SSD?

I guess the challenge would be to get the M3 to stream from it.

not happening

SanderXpander · Post by **SanderXpander** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:28 pm

What do you mean with "improved performance"? What would get improved exactly?
If you're asking whether or not it would recognize an SSD - if you plug it into one of those casings with a USB connection and format it correctly there's no reason it wouldn't.

BasariStudios · Post by **BasariStudios** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 1:18 am

I dont think anything would get Improved as there is nothing to be improved.

cminor · Post by **cminor** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 6:55 am

I think he wants to improve the "sample loading time".
The usb connection is not the problem for the long loading time, as it is the OS.

gurn · Post by **gurn** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 10:49 am

cminor wrote:I think he wants to improve the "sample loading time".
The usb connection is not the problem for the long loading time, as it is the OS.

Yeah. It takes forever for mine to boot up.
That's my fault though. I loaded all 4 EXB banks.

I think it takes 4-5 minutes to boot up.

dumeril7 · Post by **dumeril7** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 2:39 pm

Its the nature of the design -- loading big sample files into RAM simply takes awhile. biggrime is right on -- the way around the problem is for the M3 to be able to stream samples directly from USB media instead of having to load them into RAM first.

To me, its not that big a deal. Of course I haven't had my M3 lock-up at a gig yet either. 3 minutes in that situation will seem like eternity.

D7

Muji · Post by **Muji** » Fri Aug 05, 2011 5:21 am

gurn wrote:
I think it takes 4-5 minutes to boot up.

In another message I stated my actual measured time to do this... with a fast internal SD card to boot from, it took something like 1 minute and 50 seconds. You may try doing the SD upgrade or using a better/faster/smaller thumb drive. It shouldn't take quite that long.

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