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Re: Purchasing a NEW 27‑inch iMac with Retina 5K display.
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A sad thing here I truly believe is that less than 20% of people here have backups as they either dont wanna spend the money and or think it wont happen to them as it never has in the past ... I would be VERY surprised if more than 25-ish % has adequate backup setups!!
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Jack are you pointing this out for external use on an iMac with a USB carrier/sled? If so you can just go with a Samsung T5... currently $300 for 2TB (also B&H price). But these are all slow SATA SSDs... but getting so cheap they may be good options for sample storage. The much faster external option for an iMac is a Thunderbolt 3/NVMe SSD like a Samsung X5 or Sonnet Fusion Thunderbolt 3 (nice product, stupid name as it has nothing to do with Apple crappy Fusion drives). The 2TB X5 is currently ~$800. Samsung is gouging pricing there due to limited Thunderbolt 3 market size (basically Apple users who are already price gouged by Apple). ... we should see a large increase in availability and decrease in price in future of that class of external NVMe SSD as USB4 is adopted on PCs (and presumably Macs) and that provides wider scale support for these external NVMe drives (Thunderbolt 3 is incorporated into USB4 Standard, abd will hopefully actually be widely implemented). —- Not that these drives are compatible with internal use in an iMac (but you could run then in an external Thunderbolt3 adapter). The M.2 PCIe/NVMe equivalent is the 970 Evo around $490 for 2TB, which is stunning price/performance. And shows how much The Apple tax is on their internal SSD... but I would still tend to pay that, especially to avoid dealing with external drives if that was possible. Anybody with a real computer, one with PCIe slots like a classic Mac Pro Cheesegrater (or a new one )... the M.2 NVMe drives are the way to go. Larger NVMe drives exist today, in similar but larger/wider M.2 like NF1/M3, U.2 (2.5”), and full card PCIe slot packaging, and neat large “ruler”/EDSFF packaging being pushed by folks including Intel. (The evolution of packaging names has been horrible and confusing). But M.2 is where the consumer and much other action is. Samsung has a NF1 4TB drive that is some folks are advertising as low as $1.3k online, I'm not sure if that price is real, list is more ~$2.5k. Whole different market and price point, but even then high-end price/performance is heading in the good direction fairly fast. Last edited by Darryl Ramm; 07-07-2019 at 01:47 PM. |
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Another option could be to do it the way I do at my work iMac. I run OSX off of an external SSD thunderbolt drive enclosure for my iMac and use the internal drive for backup as it has a Fusion (Complete Garbage) drive.
It would be much cheaper to use an external SSD than pay for the internal SSD upgrade cost. You can use an External Thunderbolt SSD as your system drive and use the stock internal SSD that comes with the mac as your Audio Drive. |
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About frigging time... Apple drops storage upgrade prices. https://www.macrumors.com/2019/07/09...es-price-drop/
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That hybrid (what Apple calls a Fusion drive) is the problem - remember that it's part spinner and those are what generates the heat. Put a pure ssd in there and the heat generated by the spinner is no more.
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You are right. But there is perhaps also the necessary cooling of the monitor 5 k?
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Not so much the monitor but the video card. The screen itself doesn't really generate all that much heat (if any). Most of the heat in these beasts is the video card and cpu.
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That's what I was trying to say. The map provides 5k ...
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