A Month with Apple's Fusion Drive by Anand Lal Shimpi 1/18/2013 AnandTech
When decent, somewhat affordable, client focused solid state drives first came on the scene in 2008 the technology was magical. I called the original X25-M the best upgrade you could do for your system (admittedly I threw in the caveat that I'd like to see > 100GB and at a better price than $600). Although NAND and SSD pricing have both matured handsomely over time, there's still the fact that mechanical storage is an order of magnitude cheaper. The solution I've always advocated was a manual combination of SSD and HDD technologies. Buy a big enough SSD to house your OS, applications and maybe even a game or two, and put everything else on a RAID-1 array of hard drives. This approach works quite well in a desktop, but you have to be ok with manually managing where your files go. ... http://www.anandtech.com/show/6679/a-month-with-apples-fusion-drive _______________________________________________ Medianews mailing list [email protected] http://etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews_etskywarn.net
