Hi Tony, Peter, Michael, Susan, “Up to a point RAM is of much greater importance. I.e. until you have enough RAM, adding an SSD (or rather replacing a HDD with an SSD) will have little to no effect. You can have the fastest SSD on the planet, if your RAM is too small then your machine would be slow.”
RAM and SSD (Storage) do two fundamentally different things. RAM is the "working memory" of your computer, so it impacts how many concurrent applications, operations and variables you can have at the same time. If you will have many applications open at the same time (or even just several heavy ones like Photoshop), then more RAM is a must. Storage is literally how much data you can store / save. The advantage of an SSD is that the amount of time it takes to retrieve the data from disk is much, much lower than with a traditional hard drive. Therefore, you will notice a difference in how quickly applications start up, load data etc with an SSD. If you also need pure volume, use an SSD as the disk the OS is installed on, and use a second regular hard drive for additional storage. As everyone agrees, combine these together and your system will work better overall.” Cheers, Ronni Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB > On 23 Jul 2018, at 1:36 pm, Susan Hastings <susanhasti...@mac.com> wrote: > > Replacing the hard drive with a SSD I would definitely be a good idea if you > want to extend the working life of the iMac. I think it would make more of a > difference to speed than the RAM, but increasing that as well is still a good > idea. > > Just depends on how long you intend to keep using it. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 23 Jul 2018, at 1:01 pm, Michael Hawkins >> <michael.hawk...@mjhawkins.com.au> wrote: >> >> Hi Tony, >> >> An increase in memory is well worth while, so too is replacing the hard >> drive with a solid state drive. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Michael Hawkins >> >>> On 23 Jul 2018, at 10:45 am, Anthony (Tony) Francis <antne...@icloud.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Good Morning to one and all >>> >>> As my iMac 27” late 2011, is getting on a bit, would there be any benefit >>> in increasing the memory?? At present the Computer still holds the original >>> 4GB of memory, there are two additional slots available for a further 4GB, >>> just wondering. >>> >>> Kind Regards >>> >>> Tony Francis >>> >>> Boddington >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
