I've been a Mac Mini fan as I see no reason to upgrade screens every time you get a new computer, but with a 21.5 retina screen, I could justify, buying the iMac with the intention of using it as a second screen some day when it becomes obsolete.
. While SSDs are just getting started, and so far the sky is the limit.
I think Apple should bring back the 24" iMac. It's a good size. They should also add 30" and 33/34" as options.
If they can bring out laptops in 11", 12" and 13", they can jolly well give us some more choice for iMacs.
I've been a Mac Mini fan as I see no reason to upgrade screens every time you get a new computer, but with a 21.5 retina screen, I could justify, buying the iMac with the intention of using it as a second screen some day when it becomes obsolete.
They exist in 4TB now:3tb 2.5in drives don't exist. Largest one available is 2TB from Samsung... though I suspect many Apple users won't want it because of their (ridiculous) hatred for Samsung.
No it is not. It is a single drive. But 15mm thick, compared to usually 9mm (if I remember correctly)Was this JUST released?
And 99% of people never have to, and with Fusion Drives 98% will never have to. You are blowing this all out of proportion. I have owned about 30 HDDs, only one of them failed and since it was one of multiple backups there was no restore needed, just a backup taking longer than usual when the replacement drive arrived. Meaning for me, the restore due to hardware failure rate is already below 3%.
Well, seeing as how I've never had to restore a boot drive in my life but have had to restore countless dead external drives I find your insistence that I move even more of my life to external drives an interesting one.
If you believe that 3 TB 3.5" drives are unreliable, I am not sure I can trust your judgement. We had 3 TB 3.5" drives for three years or so. And we had 2 TB before that and 4, 5, and even 6 TB drives after that (the 8 TB are only good for archival purposes due to the way the individual data 'lines' overlap). I vaguely remember that Backblaze had trouble with one particular size of drives, in particular from one brand (which I think were 3 TB drives from Seagate). But other reports have shown that what really just one model that had problems.I was replying to a post that implied that SSDs shouldn't be standard in the iMac because SSDs aren't yet available in a 3TB size. Let's keep that in context.
First, Fusion drives are less reliable than a single drive. No way around it, any time you're relying on two drives concurrently instead of one, the odds of failure go up and reliability goes down. If the odds of each failing is 1%, then the odds of either of them failing is 2% (which is what a Fusion drive is, it fails if one of the two drives fail). It's just math.
Second, I agree that most drives are totally reliable. Not all spinners are bad. 500GB spinners and 1TB spinners are totally fine. But if you read reviews of the 3TB spinners and reports from EMC and other storage experts, the 3TB HDDs are just plain unreliable. They either have 5 platters of 600GB/platter, or 3 platters of 1TB/platter. In the former, that many platters causes a problem. In the latter, that density causes a problem.
So to say that you've had 30 HDDs and only 1 failed is irrelevant, unless you've had 30 3TB HDDs, which I doubt you have.
I think you mean: 'No SSD configuration below X Dollars'. How would a cheaper non-SSD option change the value of the SSD option?
No it is not. It is a single drive. But 15mm thick, compared to usually 9mm (if I remember correctly)
http://www.storagenewsletter.com/ru...tb-record-for-2-5-inch-hdd-by-samsungseagate/
I've been a Mac Mini fan as I see no reason to upgrade screens every time you get a new computer, but with a 21.5 retina screen, I could justify, buying the iMac with the intention of using it as a second screen some day when it becomes obsolete.
You bought a mac mini on a finance agreement?
You basically just wrote "Haha, you're poor!". I hope it feels good.You bought a mac mini on a finance agreement?
... They either have 5 platters of 600GB/platter, or 3 platters of 1TB/platter. In the former, that many platters causes a problem. In the latter, that density causes a problem...
Fusion drive was a neat idea back in 2012, when SSD prices are still sky high. At the price apple is charging for its fusion drives in 2015, I can purchase a high capacity SSD.
The reality is, fusion drive, albeit faster than HDD alone, is still way slower than SSD.
Its still gets 200MBps read/write, I remeber when SSD's were around that.