SSDs took my DAW (digital audio workstation) from being able to mix 32 tracks of 96/24 audio with effects to easily over 100 tracks. It wasn't so much achieved

SSDs took my DAW (digital audio workstation) from being able to mix 32 tracks of 96/24 audio with effects to easily over 100 tracks. It wasn't so much achieved by the change in the steady flow of data, but in data transfer spikes. Occasionally there is a disk load spike. When your disks are running 80% capacity, that spike takes them over 100% and causes a dropout in the audio. With the SSDs the disks run at about 4% normally, and the occasional spike just bumps it to the 10 - 20% mark, and it keeps on chugging! I am a total convert to SSDs as a result. Still using HDD for the OS and other things like mass storage. When the price point is better I'll move all the disks across. Now it's CPU that's the bottle neck :P