Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive?

Subject	Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive?
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
References	<2015072307182152788-tomevans9890@yahoo.ca>
From	Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca>
Date	2015-07-23 14:11 -0400
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On 2015-07-23 10:18, Tom Evans wrote:
> I'm considering buying a three-terabyte Imac to replace my one-terabyte
> Imac that's almsot full.
>
> Should I buy one with a Fusion drive or is an A.T.A. dirve sufficient?
>
> I'm storing many images on my Imac and editing them with Photoshop, and
> I need much computing power for digital music-making.

Fusion is nice.  After you've used a given app (say Photoshop) a few 
times, suddenly it loads much quicker.  But it doesn't improve 
processing much (or probably at all).

For photos I'd store "in-work" photography on the iMac and library stuff 
in 2 or more external drives keeping one "off site" if possible.

So no real need for 3 TB (though my previous iMac had 2 after I upgraded 
it from 500 GB.)  My curreny iMac has 1 TB / Fusion.

I'd put money on memory (order 8 GB standard from Apple; then add 16 GB 
from Crucial (et al) to get up to 24 GB) rather than the internal HD.

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A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Tom Evans <tomevans9890@yahoo.ca> - 2015-07-23 07:18 -0700
  Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-07-23 10:36 -0400
    Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Tom Evans <tomevans9890@yahoo.ca> - 2015-07-23 08:54 -0700
      Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-07-23 12:07 -0400
        Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-07-23 17:06 +0000
          Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-07-23 13:31 -0400
          Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Tom Evans <tomevans9890@yahoo.ca> - 2015-07-23 11:43 -0700
            Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-07-24 09:34 -0400
              Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Tom Evans <tomevans9890@yahoo.ca> - 2015-07-24 11:10 -0700
                Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-07-24 14:13 -0400
                Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Tom Evans <tomevans9890@yahoo.ca> - 2015-08-01 10:11 -0700
                Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-01 18:54 +0000
                Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-07-26 09:42 -0400
  Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-07-23 14:11 -0400
    Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Tom Evans <tomevans9890@yahoo.ca> - 2015-07-23 11:32 -0700
      Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-07-23 19:36 +0100
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  Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2015-07-23 17:44 -0400
  Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? heron stone <heron@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-23 17:55 -0700
  Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2015-07-24 08:20 +0200
    Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-07-24 15:56 +0000
  Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? John Albert <j.albert@snet.net> - 2015-07-31 11:19 -0400
    Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-07-31 10:15 -0700
      Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-07-31 13:59 -0400
        Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-07-31 13:24 -0600
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