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NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 13:11:32 -0500
Subject: Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive?
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From: Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca>
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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.