Monster Digital Solid State Drive causing hiccup in DAW

If you’ve recently purchased a Monster Digital solid state drive and are noticing your tracking/playback indicator in your DAW doing some funky hiccuping, don’t worry. We’ve tested these out and can assure you that your audio is being processed perfectly fine.

The reason this happens is because your DAW is expecting the hard drive to write data at a constant rate like disk drives do. A solid state drive writes data at super high speeds across each memory cell with a momentary pause when switching memory cells. When the SSD makes the jump to the next cell, the DAW may “hiccup.” This is only a visual thing and depends on how many tracks you are recording and at what sample rate/resolution. You won’t actually see the hiccup until a memory cell on the SSD is filled. The SSD is fast enough to handle recording and playing back audio without any problem.

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