Eric, I have a iMac (24-inch Mid 2007) with 4GB of RAM that my wife doesn't like me to mess with since it works for her. So I can "play" a few years ago I purchased an enclosure from Other World Computing (https://www.macsales.com) with a multitude of ports including USB 2.0 & FW800 and a SSD to put into it. I've been booting into it when I want to "play" and it works well enough with whatever the latest and greatest OS X is available. I have to admit that recently I've noticed that it isn't quite as responsive as it once was but I haven't taken the time to determine why yet.
Good luck. --Bruce On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Eric B. Volker <[email protected]> wrote: > I’ve been looking for ways to improve the responsiveness of my old iMac > (24” mid-2007). I’ve upgraded the hard drive already to a Samsung 5400RPM > 2TB model, but I still get the beachball fairly often. I’m not complaining > - it’s amazing that this thing can still run the latest OS. However, I > would like something that responds better. > > Which leads me to my question. I had a hard time replacing the hard drive > in this Mac, and don’t want to repeat the experience, if possible. Can I > put an SSD in Firewire 800 or 400 enclosure, and would I experience a > significant improvement in responsiveness? Most people focus on the > improvement in raw speed, which would be lost due to the relatively slow > transfer rate of Firewire. However, one of an SSDs big advantages is in > seek times/IOPs/latency, which I’d still get with Firewire. So has anyone > tried using an SSD in a Firewire enclosure, and did they see an improvement > in performance? Firewire 800 is also a good bit more expensive than FW400; > would it make a big difference? > > Thanks, > > Eric > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a > group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iMac Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
