pros/cons for production?
concerned about the cost/space ratio and the fact that from what i understand it is difficult to clear them entirely and free up space should you run out.

pros: faster
cons: less space

whats most important to you?

no cons. You need space. Get a thunderbolt external. You have more potential space at a faster rate than any tower. I suppose the con is that it isn't poor friendly.

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No cons at all.

I just whacked a Samsung SSD in to my ageing imac (update to that thread coming) and it's like having a new computer.

25 seconds from pushing the power button to actually working on it.

Icons in the dock don't even get a full bounce before they open.

Downloading/my internet is faster due to lack of bottleneck on the drive as the file cached.

None of those little latencies of the program itself working within logic (i.e. pressing start, or enable recording etc)- it's like having a hardware desk.

large projects open in seconds (that used to take minutes) and my overall CPU usage has plummeted.

Get a 256gb as your OS then a large thunderbolt external drive.

No excuse

get 4 G drive thunderbolt 4 TB each. Thunderbolt is just so tits. And the imacs with 2 thunderbolt ports. I have 10 of them. They rock.

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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney get 4 G drive thunderbolt 4 TB each. Thunderbolt is just so tits. And the imacs with 2 thunderbolt ports. I have 10 of them. They rock.

They really are the tits. Only thing that now sucks about my old imac is no thunderbolt, and no way to adapt it.

Depends how much cash you have. If you have about 1k to burn, you can get the OWC Mercury Pro 3G 960GB SSD, which gives you both speed and space. Mind you, it's only SATA2, yes, but on a MacBook Pro, the difference between SATA2 and SATA3 is absolutely miniscule. Otherwise, get a Samsung SSD. Samsung uses their own controllers, which provide high-class performance and reliability.

Responding to L4C, an external drive defeats the purpose of a laptop. You need something built-in, not lug around an external hard drive, even if it's in a 2.5" form factor. I carry around a small USB3 WD My Passport, and I'm getting quite pissed at having to move around with a stupid chunk of plastic and aluminum. Unless you plan on keeping your laptop at the desk 90% of the time, in which case an external Thunderbolt drive is perfect, I suggest something internal.

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why the fuck would you need a portable system with that much space. Get 2 256 drives. Done. I have a smaller TB drive that is 2 TB that is about the size of a coke can.

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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney why the fuck would you need a portable system with that much space. Get 2 256 drives. Done. I have a smaller TB drive that is 2 TB that is about the size of a coke can.

Lol because you don't know him - he is like portable powerhouse, walking supercomputer lol - he has everything in there, his whole life is on those freaking disks

It is just him !!!


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then he has a backup i imagine. Which sort of destroys the no external.

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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney why the fuck would you need a portable system with that much space. Get 2 256 drives. Done. I have a smaller TB drive that is 2 TB that is about the size of a coke can.

Probably because I travel almost every weekend ;P

Carrying around an external drive is gay. I keep my backups at home. A data drive and backup drive are two different things.

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Last edited by Anakratis on Jan-11-2013 at 07:08

So you have 4 possible combinations. I'm sure you can figure this one out.

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