Disklavier

I posted a while ago about my excellent experience upgrading the original HDD to a 128gig SSD. The best part of it really has been the access speed. It's instant, and I'm a bit confused about just why it is so much faster. There is zero delay on menu scrolling and task shifting or anything else that relies on HDD access. I wonder if there's something else that used to be adding a tremendous amount of latency, and whatever it was has gone away as a result of this upgrade…?

128g is a lot, but with all of the stuff I'm throwing on there (all sorts of CDs and DVDs and stored performances and so on), it's going to fill up eventually. It doesn't make sense to pick up a 256g or 512g SSD every few years… would be better to just plug in something external and upgrade that as needed. The issue is accessing that space as part of one big file system… and I'm not entirely clear on how to make that work.

One possibility is to expand the active file system into one big virtual one that incorporates the current SSD and also the external storage. One would require access at the root unix level to make that happen, but assuming the external drive is handled the same as the other I/O devices, it can be made to work. Has anyone done anything like that?

It occurs to me that, done properly, a cloud-storage of all sorts of (non-copyrighted) material could be made available for anyone to seamlessly access. It might be a challenge to get Yamaha involved, but Kevin's DKVBrowser could itself point to a pre-defined globally-shared file system… that'd be really cool.

…..HK