It occurs to me that I could probably seriously improve the performance of my computer by upgrading the harddrive. It currently has the stock 320GB 3.5" Sata, with all of the data on a motley collection of external drives (USB 2.0, and both types of firewire). Also, the internal optical disk has been getting flakier and flakier.
The biggest initial upgrade would probably be to replace the main drive with a SSD. This would tremendously speed up access to the lightroom catalogs, which I do keep on the main drive. The biggest SSD I found easily was 512, but apple lists 768GB. Another possibility would be to pull the optical drive, replace it with an external USB optical drive, and drop a big spinny drive in there, so I'd have my current working raw files close to my machine, and not over a slow USB2 connection. I might also be able to do something with a RAID box on the Firewire 800 bus. Thoughts, comments, reality checks, clue by fours? specs on the machine: Hardware Overview: Model Name: iMac Model Identifier: iMac7,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2 Cache: 4 MB Memory: 6 GB Bus Speed: 800 MHz Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B03 SMC Version (system): 1.21f4 Serial Number (system): YD82006VX89 Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-001EC20A47C7 ATA Bus: (this might seriously limit an internal spinny drive) MATSHITADVD-R UJ-875: Model: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-875 Revision: DB09 Serial Number: fE01CC5D Detachable Drive: No Protocol: ATAPI Unit Number: 0 Socket Type: Internal Low Power Polling: Yes Power Off: No SATA Bus: ( I don't know if I can add a second drive to this bus) Intel ICH8-M AHCI: Vendor: Intel Product: ICH8-M AHCI Link Speed: 3 Gigabit Negotiated Link Speed: 3 Gigabit Description: AHCI Version 1.10 Supported WDC WD3200AAJS-40VWA0: Capacity: 320.07 GB (320,072,933,376 bytes) Model: WDC WD3200AAJS-40VWA0 Revision: 58.01D02 Serial Number: WD-WMARW0399396 Native Command Queuing: Yes Queue Depth: 32 Removable Media: No Detachable Drive: No BSD Name: disk0 Medium Type: Rotational Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table) S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified Volumes: Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes) Writable: Yes BSD Name: disk0s1 Macintosh HD: Capacity: 319.73 GB (319,728,959,488 bytes) Available: 33.67 GB (33,669,283,840 bytes) Writable: Yes File System: Journaled HFS+ BSD Name: disk0s2 Mount Point: / -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
