04-12-2019, 11:37 PM
I think I might have figured it out.
As mentioned previously I'm on a pretty old system here, going on a decade. Or more correctly my motherboard is nine years old, but I have upgraded pretty much everything else over the years (I've even switched from an Athlon II X4 to a Phenom II X4 955 since I started this thread). What it boils down to is that this nForce 630a chipset doesn't fully support the AHCI standard of more modern mobos. I'm basically bottlenecked by the on-board disk controller, clearly evident from the fact that I only get a 20MB/s or so transfer speed increase between an SSD and a regular HDD. Drivers make a difference, but only marginally so.
So that sucks I guess. But it still doesn't explain why Kontakt is so damn finicky with its disk streaming. AFAIK people have been running pretty big Kontakt libraries from 7200RPM HDDs without problem for years and years.
As mentioned previously I'm on a pretty old system here, going on a decade. Or more correctly my motherboard is nine years old, but I have upgraded pretty much everything else over the years (I've even switched from an Athlon II X4 to a Phenom II X4 955 since I started this thread). What it boils down to is that this nForce 630a chipset doesn't fully support the AHCI standard of more modern mobos. I'm basically bottlenecked by the on-board disk controller, clearly evident from the fact that I only get a 20MB/s or so transfer speed increase between an SSD and a regular HDD. Drivers make a difference, but only marginally so.
So that sucks I guess. But it still doesn't explain why Kontakt is so damn finicky with its disk streaming. AFAIK people have been running pretty big Kontakt libraries from 7200RPM HDDs without problem for years and years.