On 1/28/14, 9:27 AM, Boating All Out wrote:
In article ,
says...

On 1/28/2014 8:19 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
...if your iMac has a fusion drive, this is a pretty good read on how it
actually works.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6679/a...s-fusion-drive



Interesting. I don't have a clue if my iMac has fusion drive or not. I
don't think so, but I seem to recall reading something about it somewhere.

It's obsolete tech. SSD's are cheaper now.
And you don't need them anyway.
I have an SSD for my OS. It boots faster.
BFD.
Can't tell the difference anywhere else.
My games are still on spinners, plain and not RAIDed.
No noticeable difference.
If you're moving massive files from SSD to SSD, it'll be faster.
SSD's will kill off spinners as prices fall.



It's kind of silly to project your personal experiences with a piece of
computer hardware to a universal truth. Perhaps if you are a "gamer," as
you seem to be, playing the games off an SSD makes no difference. I
don't know, since I don't play any computer games.

But I do know the SSD on my Macbook Air helps me load and save certain
types of files a hell of a lot faster than I could on the "spinner" on
the iMac I just sold, and that includes photo files, large manuscripts,
and manipulation of the web pages I put together and update. I can tell
the difference.



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