I second the Samsung recommendation. Probably the best choice one can make for a drop-in SSD for this kind of system.
On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Zos Xavius <zosxav...@gmail.com> wrote: > Do yourself a favor and research SSD reliability. Not all drives are > created equally. Spend an extra couple of bucks and buy a samsung pro. > They outlasted every SSD tested and sustained 2 PETABYTES of writes > where as quite a few were dying before they even hit the 1 PB mark. > Even a used samsung pro would likely be more reliable than the > cheapest SSD at the same size. If you use an SSD and swap and use > photoshop heavily on it, expect to write a few hundred gigabytes of > data to that drive a day when you use it. Adding more RAM will help > with how much the system is swapping of course, but even with > photoshop its not unusual to see scratch files hitting the 60gb limit > pretty quickly with big files. > > On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 3:17 PM, John <sesso...@earthlink.net> wrote: >> I sent you an email off-list with information about an offer from Newegg for >> a PNY 480GB SSD - $119 and free shipping, but you have to order before >> 11:59pm Pacific Time TODAY "4th of July". >> >> For anyone else who wants to look at it, it's item: 20-178-968 >> >> >> On 7/4/2016 12:36 PM, Rick Womer wrote: >>> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> "Up periscope" after three weekends in Connecticut clearing out my >>> mother's apartment. >>> >>> My photo computer is a Mac Mini with a 2.4 GHz Core2 Duo processor, 8 gig >>> RAM, and a spinny internal hard drive (my pics are on a 1T external drive). >>> >>> I have been considering upgrading it with a 480 GB internal SSD and 16 GB >>> RAM. I figure that would cost $600-$700. >>> >>> Is it worth it, or is the performance of the i5 and i7-based Minis so >>> stellar that it's wortth spending the extra money? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Rick >>> >>> >>> http://photo.net/photos/RickW >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Science - Questions we may never find answers for. >> Religion - Answers we must never question. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
