New 5k iMac for recording?

[jaminjamesp]

Originally Posted by nst7

Darryl, you know much more about computers than I do. My statements about the various busses were based on looking under the System Profiler of each type of Mac and looking at the information of the ports. When the ports have different system ID's and/or serial numbers, I assume that to be a separate buss, vs. when they are exactly the same for each port. But I could very well be wrong.

However, this seems to be consistent with the info in the new Mac Pro user manual, where it plainly states that there are 3 Thunderbolt busses, and gives a diagram for which physical ports to use if you want to take advantage of that fact.

After a little research, Darryl is (of course) correct about the DSL5520 Thunderbolt 2 controller in the iMac 5K. It's actually a 4 channel controller, so 2 channels of 20Gb/s throughput per port. Seems more than adequate for HDN.

[Pieterrr]

interesting discussion. i'm in the same position - working with big sample libraries and looking for something to replace my mac pro (2008!). the iMac specs sound great to me, since you don't need the Mac Pro to store internal hard drives.

i'm a bit worried about possible fan noise of the imac. how's that working out for you, imac 5K owners?

[Mitchel]

Hi I'm running a 5K iMac 32gb ram. Internal 256 SSD & an external thunderbolt 2 1TB SSD LaCie little big disc for samples, songs etc. HDN set up with PT12.1. OSX 10.10.4. Put it this way you have to really listen hard to hear any fans!
Compared with my new HD/IO the Avid is way louder!