Agreed on all points.
On 5/11/2018 6:13 PM, Simon Fogarty wrote:
To upgrade your only going to have 2 hardware options
Tht machine will take 2 8gig sticks of ram for 16GB total.
And
As for the HDD if you have a 1tb drive in there now,
To replace the hdd with and ssd at the same 1tb drive size you are going to
have both a large cost and a nice bit of work taking the old drive out,
The ssd alone might give you nice visible performance changes so I'd check on
that update first,
If you then still want to update ram then you can.
As for the OS well it's in my thoughts not going to change a lot at this point
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From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> On
Behalf Of Steve Matzura
Sent: Friday, 11 May 2018 1:50 PM
To: Mac Visionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Subject: TO upgrade, or to change platforms entirelyWWYDWhat would you do?
I have a quad core i7 late 2012 Mac Mini with the stock 5400rpm 1TB drive and
8GB RAM. I use it exclusively for music reation and education (mainly my own)
with Logic and Pro Tools. My sample libraries are stored on an external MyBook
3TB drive which is also shared with time Machine.
Consequently, once per hour, there's a little gligtchiness sometimes if I
happen to be playing something that draws heavily on sampled content when TM
runs. Granted, it only lasts for a second or two because the machine does not
require much in the way of backups, as very little on it changes.
So I'm starting to think it's time for an upgrade. But what to upgrade?
Clearly more memory would help, as well as replacing the mechanical drive with
a solid-state drive. There's also the main hardware, which surely can't be
upgradable to the next operating system forever. I ran into this with a 2009
iMac when Sierra was released. For disk replacement, Crucial has a 2TB drive
for five hundred dollars--that's just twenty-five cents US per gig--a very nice
price. I'm quite fond of Crucial solid-state disks, as I already own two other
smaller units used in other machine. I figure if I changed out the 1TB rotating
drive for a 2TB SSD and moved all my sample libraries to that drive, that would
also eliminate the USB 3 slow-down (if there really is one, which I'm not
convinced there is), then that USB drive would be used exclusively for Time
Machine backups.
Another option is to purchase an empty Mac Pro and put the Crucial 2TB drive
and lots of memory into it, then set the rest of it up as above.
But how long will a Mac Pro last before it, too, can no longer be upgraded?
With the price of Apple hardware ever increasing, will I eventually get priced
out of upgrading?
Everybody says it's bad practice to mix system and data files on a drive. But
if it's a solid-state drive, how could this be bad?
If I obtain a Mac Pro, which model year has the highest expandability
quotient? i.e., which one can I keep the longest and expand the most
into the future before it won't be expandable/ upgradable any more, like
my old 2009 iMac turned out to be when Sierra was released.
So, what would you do?
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