I'm trying to decide which option to go with for the hard drive in the mini I'm about to order.
My first thought was to just go with the 1TB hdd but have been given more thought to a SSD. My current thinking is to get a fusion drive and split it so I can put my OS on the SDD and have the 1TB for storage. I realize this isn't the most cost effective option, that it would be cheaper to buy a SDD and a kit to add a second HDD, but it just seems like less of a hassle to just get the fusion drive. It would be less of a hassle with no need to install anything and also down the road if something were to break I wouldn't need to reinstall original drive before having apple fix it.
I don't want to go with the 256 SSD option because for the price it really doesn't make sense. The other thing I've been thinking about is just getting a SSD in an external TB enclosure and booting off that, but could be as expensive going that route as just getting the fusion drive.
Does anybody know if the SSD in the fusion drive setup is a standard SSD and therefore replaceable down the road? If so it brings the relative cost of the 128 gb SSD down since it already has the 2nd drive kit and you would need to get that if you bought just the 1tb hdd and installed a SSD as a 2nd drive.
What are your thoughts?
My first thought was to just go with the 1TB hdd but have been given more thought to a SSD. My current thinking is to get a fusion drive and split it so I can put my OS on the SDD and have the 1TB for storage. I realize this isn't the most cost effective option, that it would be cheaper to buy a SDD and a kit to add a second HDD, but it just seems like less of a hassle to just get the fusion drive. It would be less of a hassle with no need to install anything and also down the road if something were to break I wouldn't need to reinstall original drive before having apple fix it.
I don't want to go with the 256 SSD option because for the price it really doesn't make sense. The other thing I've been thinking about is just getting a SSD in an external TB enclosure and booting off that, but could be as expensive going that route as just getting the fusion drive.
Does anybody know if the SSD in the fusion drive setup is a standard SSD and therefore replaceable down the road? If so it brings the relative cost of the 128 gb SSD down since it already has the 2nd drive kit and you would need to get that if you bought just the 1tb hdd and installed a SSD as a 2nd drive.
What are your thoughts?