Thursday, 24 April 2014

External SSD-Thunderbolt as boot drive for iMac 27''


hi all,
based on different users' experience, recon installing internal ssd sata drive imac 27'' (2011) pretty painful experience... i've done operation on macbook pro 2009, , older model feels faster 2 year younger desktop.
beside price, external thunderbolt sdd sata drive option 27'' imac ? mean use boot drive...

experience ? ideas ?

!!
 

i've gone both routes. when got 2011 imac, stripped out optical drive , put vertex 2 in place. operation pain - worse swapping stuff in macbook pro, , consider myself reasonably skilled.

thunderbolt solution gives me equivalent performance, ssd (vertex 2) sata2 (250mb/s) -- faster drives might show bigger performance difference i've read on web.
 


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