2010 27 iMac with 8Gb RAM and stock 1Tb HD. I only use about 260 GB of the HD, and most of that is photos and itunes, so I was thinking I could get away with a 240 GB SSD and put the media on an external drive.
Right now I've got 7.95Gb of RAM used, 14.5GB virtual memory, and aboud 500 MB swap. I don't do photo or video editing, but I do have a need for about 10 different specialized programs running at once that tax both the RAM and HD, split between two monitors.
Now, assuming I've got the $$ for either a 240Gb SSD OR moving up to 14Gb RAM, what's going to be a bigger bang for the buck, performance-wise?
It's also possible (I think) that I could go up to 10Gb RAM and still do the SSD...
Right now I've got 7.95Gb of RAM used, 14.5GB virtual memory, and aboud 500 MB swap. I don't do photo or video editing, but I do have a need for about 10 different specialized programs running at once that tax both the RAM and HD, split between two monitors.
Now, assuming I've got the $$ for either a 240Gb SSD OR moving up to 14Gb RAM, what's going to be a bigger bang for the buck, performance-wise?
It's also possible (I think) that I could go up to 10Gb RAM and still do the SSD...
