Larry, full specs of your fine horse aside, I think modern knight should
ride modern CPU while Core Duo 2.4 GHz is good, but even my lowly i5
seems way ahead of my previous dual core CPU.
Granted you will get some visible speed up by going SSD, I think that a
more thorough overhaul is in order...
Here comes the evil part: may be buying that 8 mm was a bit premature :-).
On 2/4/2013 9:36 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
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?
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