I have a number of questions regarding my intentions to try to speed up my 24" Imac rather than replace it as I do like using the 24" monitor and funds are low at the moment. I use Lightroom 4 a lot for my post processing and have noticed a huge slow down recently what with one thing or another. Can I operate in the following way ?
Purchase an SSD from crucial(or Samsung) and an external USB 3 sata dock, clone my internal HD to the SSD then boot my imac from the external SSD (siting in the dock alongside on the desk) on a long term basis. Once cloned, copied and booted from external SSD use the internal HD on my imac as the hard drive storage for my images, movies and music. I would then like to save my images to the internal HD but run my operating system and applications from the SSD.
The reason I am asking is that I am at a point of total confusion re the internal replacement and having to worry about an adapter, the fans/cooling and the task of opening up my imac and installing the SSD. I am not very technical and am looking for the easiest solution to not open it up but speed it up with what I can purchase for it. Could someone technical also explain the sata I.II or III speed thing and getting slower speeds from an external SSD rather then an internal one as I have read on some forums that people have said not to bother doing this with an old imac as there will not be much of a difference in speed.
Anyone out there operate a system like this and any further advice/guidance please please please. I am in the UK so any further buying tips re this set up would be much appreciated.
Oh and I will also upgrade from 4Gb to 6Gb RAM.
Purchase an SSD from crucial(or Samsung) and an external USB 3 sata dock, clone my internal HD to the SSD then boot my imac from the external SSD (siting in the dock alongside on the desk) on a long term basis. Once cloned, copied and booted from external SSD use the internal HD on my imac as the hard drive storage for my images, movies and music. I would then like to save my images to the internal HD but run my operating system and applications from the SSD.
The reason I am asking is that I am at a point of total confusion re the internal replacement and having to worry about an adapter, the fans/cooling and the task of opening up my imac and installing the SSD. I am not very technical and am looking for the easiest solution to not open it up but speed it up with what I can purchase for it. Could someone technical also explain the sata I.II or III speed thing and getting slower speeds from an external SSD rather then an internal one as I have read on some forums that people have said not to bother doing this with an old imac as there will not be much of a difference in speed.
Anyone out there operate a system like this and any further advice/guidance please please please. I am in the UK so any further buying tips re this set up would be much appreciated.
Oh and I will also upgrade from 4Gb to 6Gb RAM.