On 1/30/14, 2:03 PM, Califbill wrote:
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.

Be a long time before SSD kills off spinners! Just the price difference
per Terabyte will keep hard drives selling for years. You remind me of a
fellow engineer when I worked for Maxtor. He stated, he could put all the
storage anybody needed on his desktop. We were designing a 1.9gb 5" drive
at the time. Early 1990's. He did not really have a clue about storage
requirements. Was PC centric. When I designed disk controllers for DEC
systems, customers were using 600 MB washing machine sized drives and were
limited by room real estate as to how many they could install. You have to
consider commercial storage requirements. Credit reporting agencies, NSA,
NASA, banks and all in RAID systems.



SSD drive prices are dropping pretty fast. I happened to look this AM at
prices on Amazon for a top of the line Samsung 500 GB SSD, and found
several at around $300, and a 1 TB drive for about $500. That's about
half of what a similar drive would have been last year, or maybe a tad
more, at least for the 500 GB drive. I don't know what terabyte SSD's
were selling for in the past.

The TB drive is this honey: Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 1TB
2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive
MZ-7TE1T0BW

Prices on "Spinner" drives, even the quality ones, have dropped even
more dramatically the last two years.

I ordered my new iMac with an SSD drive. Will be here by the end of next
week, I'm sure. It's a long swim from China or wherever it is being
manufactured/assembled.


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