Do you think you could get us a throughput rate on that Hitachi HD and maybe compare it to an SSD and maybe the old hard drive?
I had access to an old Titanium today running at 1GHz using Leopard. It booted using an ancient IDE HD in less time that it takes me to boot Mavericks on an SSD.
The correct term to describe this, for anyone interested, is "code bloat." The older OS versions simply seem to be much, much more efficient.
And they still havent found a way to squeeze all these new functions into zero code yet have they.....
As an FYI I built a home made Fusion Drive and the Hitachi I bought and described earlier boots faster than the Fusion. It doesn't boot faster than a standalone SSD, but it is just a little faster than a Fusion.
I guess hard drives just can't be avoided. I would have thought by now that SSDs would be used everywhere even in backups. Instead it looks like they can only kind of be trusted.
With regards to my previous post, my wires may be a little crossed, or I'm misinterpreting what Seagate is saying. Take a look at the following specs and scroll down to the "What is included" section:
http://www.seagate.com/www-content/...en-us/_amer/docs/fast-hdd-ds1804-2-1401us.pdf
There, the statement reads "NTFS driver for Mac pre-loaded on drive" with footnote 1. Footnote 1 states "Reformatting for Mac may be required." I'm assuming the drive is by default in NTFS format and the driver allows someone with a Mac to access the NTFS file system.
I noticed that some of the Seagate line has drivers that allow compatibility between NTFS and HFS+ so they can be shared between a PC and a Mac without needing to reformat or isolate systems. This may be where I got the idea that they were producing NTFS drives with "HFS+ adapter software."
Just thought I'd clarify.