Do yourself a favor and research SSD reliability. Not all drives are created equally. Spend an extra couple of bucks and buy a samsung pro. They outlasted every SSD tested and sustained 2 PETABYTES of writes where as quite a few were dying before they even hit the 1 PB mark. Even a used samsung pro would likely be more reliable than the cheapest SSD at the same size. If you use an SSD and swap and use photoshop heavily on it, expect to write a few hundred gigabytes of data to that drive a day when you use it. Adding more RAM will help with how much the system is swapping of course, but even with photoshop its not unusual to see scratch files hitting the 60gb limit pretty quickly with big files.
On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 3:17 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > I sent you an email off-list with information about an offer from Newegg for > a PNY 480GB SSD - $119 and free shipping, but you have to order before > 11:59pm Pacific Time TODAY "4th of July". > > For anyone else who wants to look at it, it's item: 20-178-968 > > > On 7/4/2016 12:36 PM, Rick Womer wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> "Up periscope" after three weekends in Connecticut clearing out my >> mother's apartment. >> >> My photo computer is a Mac Mini with a 2.4 GHz Core2 Duo processor, 8 gig >> RAM, and a spinny internal hard drive (my pics are on a 1T external drive). >> >> I have been considering upgrading it with a 480 GB internal SSD and 16 GB >> RAM. I figure that would cost $600-$700. >> >> Is it worth it, or is the performance of the i5 and i7-based Minis so >> stellar that it's wortth spending the extra money? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Rick >> >> >> http://photo.net/photos/RickW >> >> >> > > -- > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > > -- > 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.
