05-16-2018, 12:13 PM
The fans aren't the issue (don't have any drives with fans on the desk currently), it's the noise of the read heads on the drive and platters spinning.
When you've engineered all the "noise" out of a space, even something that doesn't make a ton of noise (like a spinning drive) is annoying and makes a difference. "Is that white noise from my drive, or is it ambient noise in that recording that I'm mixing?"
I will have a "local" SSD hooked up via USB, as my main "working" storage. The work stuff on the NAS would be for non-active projects or stuff that isn't accessed as often. The local SSD is for the active projects. Audio itself isn't much of a resource hog. It's when I add a handful of effect plugins and a noise reduction plugin that I need the fastest access I can get.
When you've engineered all the "noise" out of a space, even something that doesn't make a ton of noise (like a spinning drive) is annoying and makes a difference. "Is that white noise from my drive, or is it ambient noise in that recording that I'm mixing?"
I will have a "local" SSD hooked up via USB, as my main "working" storage. The work stuff on the NAS would be for non-active projects or stuff that isn't accessed as often. The local SSD is for the active projects. Audio itself isn't much of a resource hog. It's when I add a handful of effect plugins and a noise reduction plugin that I need the fastest access I can get.