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Re: External Storage advice
« Reply #15 on: June 09, 2011, 12:58:25 pm »
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As we're talking about HD storage, the new iMac I'm currently speccing comes with 1TB and I can order it with 2TB for an extra £105 but I don't shoot RAW pics and my Logic music files are usually not much more than 80MB, so do I really need that extra 1TB built in?
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Re: External Storage advice
« Reply #16 on: June 09, 2011, 02:10:51 pm »
It always future-proofs you......depnds how long you intend to keep the machine......
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Re: External Storage advice
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Re: External Storage advice
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Re: External Storage advice
« Reply #19 on: June 29, 2011, 09:50:49 pm »
Quote from: RedRobin on June 09, 2011, 12:58:25 pm
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As we're talking about HD storage, the new iMac I'm currently speccing comes with 1TB and I can order it with 2TB for an extra £105 but I don't shoot RAW pics and my Logic music files are usually not much more than 80MB, so do I really need that extra 1TB built in?

Extra storage is always handy Robin. I though that my 500GB HD would last longer than it has done but with RAW files coming in at 21MB, I suppose it was only a matter of time.

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Re: External Storage advice
« Reply #20 on: June 29, 2011, 11:00:55 pm »
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I've ordered my iMac with 1TB plus 256 GB SSD for home. I also have various external HDs. Most of my recordings are done in the studio where there are more Macs and storage.
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Re: External Storage advice
« Reply #21 on: June 29, 2011, 11:50:49 pm »
Quote from: RedRobin on June 29, 2011, 11:00:55 pm
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I've ordered my iMac with 1TB plus 256 GB SSD for home. I also have various external HDs. Most of my recordings are done in the studio where there are more Macs and storage.

Just don't let your mac operating system defrag that ssd if you want it to hold up it's speed.  :smiley:
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Re: External Storage advice
« Reply #22 on: June 30, 2011, 12:01:47 am »
Quote from: bacillus on June 29, 2011, 11:50:49 pm

Just don't let your mac operating system defrag that ssd if you want it to hold up it's speed.  :smiley:


....Sounds like a good tip  :happy2: I was planning to install the OS on the SSD - Does it defrag automatically or only on command via Disk Utilities? I'm still on 10.4.11 Leopard on this iMac.
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Re: External Storage advice
« Reply #23 on: June 30, 2011, 12:32:24 am »
Quote from: RedRobin on June 30, 2011, 12:01:47 am
....Sounds like a good tip  :happy2: I was planning to install the OS on the SSD - Does it defrag automatically or only on command via Disk Utilities? I'm still on 10.4.11 Leopard on this iMac.

I'm a PC man but the general rules when using an ssd is to avoid writing tons of data to it as unlike a spinning platter hdd, the ssd can "wear out" as the nand it uses can only be written to and erased so many times.

Do you know what make and model ssd your system will come with?

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Re: External Storage advice
« Reply #24 on: June 30, 2011, 07:32:42 am »
As far as I know there if no need to defrag the macos file system.
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Re: External Storage advice
« Reply #25 on: June 30, 2011, 08:32:04 am »
Quote from: bacillus on June 30, 2011, 12:32:24 am

I'm a PC man but the general rules when using an ssd is to avoid writing tons of data to it as unlike a spinning platter hdd, the ssd can "wear out" as the nand it uses can only be written to and erased so many times.

Do you know what make and model ssd your system will come with?


....The way I'm intending to use the built-in HD's is to install the Mac OS on the SSD and possibly the Logic and Adobe Creative Suite applications on it but all the files/documents will be kept on the 1TB drive and only the 1TB drive backed up to external drives.

Apple don't/won't release the make/model of the SSD they offer in the iMac <  :surprised:  :confused: I have asked them. Surely it would only take someone to access the internals and spot some distinguishing info and it would become public via the net, so why the secrecy?

Either way I'm very excited about how this latest generation iMac will perform. 27"!! < :drool:  :jumping: I've used the previous 21" version and that's pretty stunning  :notworthy:
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Re: External Storage advice
« Reply #26 on: June 30, 2011, 08:36:28 am »
Unless Apple has now included the TRIM command in their latest OS then the ssd has to depend on Garbage Collection to keep the ssd's performance up. A flakey GC in the ssd's firmware will soon lead to lowered performance (depending on how much data is written to it)  that may only be recoverable by erasing the ssd and reinstalling.
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Re: External Storage advice
« Reply #27 on: June 30, 2011, 09:16:27 am »
Try www.novatech.co.uk , or www.overclockers.co.uk - two great websites for cheap computer bits ;)
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Re: External Storage advice
« Reply #28 on: June 30, 2011, 05:23:17 pm »
Just pulled the plug on one of these...

http://www.warehouseexpress.com/buy-western-digital-my-book-studio-ii-2tb-fw-400-800-esata-usb2-/p1033166

2TB should keep me going a while.
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Re: External Storage advice
« Reply #29 on: June 30, 2011, 06:23:54 pm »
Quite a few of the SSD options available from Apple are Toshiba drives currently, there is a good review of them here - http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1230/1/
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