On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 05:14:05PM -0500, Stan Halpin wrote: > > On Dec 23, 2013, at 4:54 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > > > > Stan, > > > > So, having an external SSD drive (which I would expect to be SATA-3 > > drive?) > > Yes > > > would fully benefit from its speed only if you are connecting it > > via Thunderbolt. Are you? > > My plan is to connect the SSD via USB3.0 as an interim measure. Though I've > read that this is easily fast enough for my primary purpose (LR catalog and > cache), I do intend to move to a Thunderbolt-connected enclosure for the SSD > if/when I can find one. Still looking... >
If you find one, please let us know. I was looking for t-bolt enclosures and they all seem to be subject to the apple tax. Apple seems to be doing the bare minimum that they can get away with to pretend that t-bolt isn't a monopoly interface, so that they can still charge premium for t-bolt hardware. > > > > > Igor > > > > > > > > On Dec 23, 2013, at 1:55 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: > > > >> I held off for several weeks, thinking that the Mini and/or > >> Thunderbolt displays might be updated when the MacPro was finally > >> available, but that didn't happen. I decided not to worry about buying > >> THE computer that would last me the rest of my life, but rather buy > >> one that is good enough for what I need now and the next couple of > >> years. So I ordered the iMac. I didn't max it out; e.g., I'll add > >> memory from other sources. And I went with an old-technology internal > >> drive; an external SSD is on order that will tie into one of the USB > >> ports. > >> > > > > > > -- > > 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. > > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
