Ordering iMac - 1TB Fushion or 256GB SSD?

[cltd]

I am sure the SSD is not idle so it puts off heat. When its being written to its a lot of heat. There is a fan in all iMacs. The earlier statement "As the SSD does not get hot anyway" is incorrect.

Especially NVMe drives which can get really hot.

 

[USB3foriMac]

NVMe

How the hell are you putting NVMe into 2011 iMac? I'll do that immediately, and sure as hell this will be "very hot", to put that in relation.
This is about a SATA SSD in a mid 2011 iMac, and whether it gets hot when the temp monitoring is deactivated so that the HDD fan spins at default. This is what I am disputing, as this method is super simple to implement (e.g. using a SATA power splitter cable), and hence it should not be dismissed based on beliefs and comparisons that are not applicable, such as NVMe. If you believe this SATA SSD in a 2011 iMac gets hot with fan at default speed, please provide proof.

 

[cltd]

How the hell are you putting NVMe into 2011 iMac? I'll do that immediately, and sure as hell this will be "very hot", to put that in relation.
This is about a SATA SSD in a mid 2011 iMac, and whether it gets hot when the temp monitoring is deactivated so that the HDD fan spins at default. This is what I am disputing, as this method is super simple to implement (e.g. using a SATA power splitter cable), and hence it should not be dismissed based on beliefs and comparisons that are not applicable, such as NVMe. If you believe this SATA SSD in a 2011 iMac gets hot with fan at default speed, please provide proof.

Sorry, it was general remark. Didn't notice it's about 2011 Mac.

 

[Kent W]

Avoid Fusion drives, its like yesterdays dipers. They were introduced many years ago to mitigate the huge cost of SSD’s at the time.

Get the 256 gb internal SSD, expand further via inexpensive external USB3 SSD’s or even external thunderbolt connected ones.

Don’t go for a minimal SSD clustered with an ancient tech HDD spinner (i.e. Fusion) in 2020.

 

[LarryJoe33]

Avoid Fusion drives, its like yesterdays dipers. They were introduced many years ago to mitigate the huge cost of SSD’s at the time.

Get the 256 gb internal SSD, expand further via inexpensive external USB3 SSD’s or even external thunderbolt connected ones.

Don’t go for a minimal SSD clustered with an ancient tech HDD spinner (i.e. Fusion) in 2020.

This is exactly what I thought when I was specing out the new machine, but when I saw them as a standard option, I thought for sure there must be some new tech here. Why the heck is Apple still using these? I never heard one good thing about them. The SSD I just put in my 2011 was 250GB and was $75 buck from OWC and it included the entire kit of tools, adapters and cables.