Re:HDD Shipments Down 20% in Q1 2016, Hit Multi-Year Low
by m_eiman on Friday May 13, 2016 @05:13AM
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Hard to switch GPUs in an iMac, isn't it?
I have considered switching out both the HDD and the DVD drive to get space to build a Fusion drive, but I kinda want to keep the DVD drive; it's the only one we have in the house.
Hm. Maybe I should build a Fusion drive and add an external optical drive...
Re:HDD Shipments Down 20% in Q1 2016, Hit Multi-Year Low
by beachstartup on Friday May 13, 2016 @10:36AM
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not really. it's just a pci card. just make sure you get one with a mac compatible firmware.
Re:HDD Shipments Down 20% in Q1 2016, Hit Multi-Year Low
by m_eiman on Friday May 13, 2016 @11:09AM
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It's just a PCI card, buried beneath 51 disassembly steps: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iMac+Intel+21.5-Inch+EMC+2389+G...
A bit more complicated than I'd like :)
Re:HDD Shipments Down 20% in Q1 2016, Hit Multi-Year Low
by beachstartup on Friday May 13, 2016 @02:28PM
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i was referring to mac pros. i don't use imacs because of this reason.
an ssd is a completely different paradigm. it's night and day, even on an old sata bus.
this shoudn't even be a question. hdd computers are completely unuseable to me now. i sat down at one the other day and i thought it had crashed and almost rebooted it, but it was just chugging the disk.