My IMac has a fusion drive: a 3 terabyte spiny drive mated to a 125 gig SSD. It works quite well in that current projects are stored on the SSD, so when I return to work, the file loads immediately. It seems Photoshop uses the SSD as a scratch disk as well. My machine is fast to begin with, given its 4 gigahertz i7 processor, but the fusion drive seems to complement it nicely. Complex Photoshop operations seem almost real time.
Paul via phone > On Apr 6, 2017, at 9:59 AM, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 4/6/2017 7:50 AM, Paul in MKE wrote: >> It's time to upgrade the hard drive in my computer and I'm looking at a >> hybrid - a standard hard drive with a small built-in solid state drive. >> Has anyone had any experience with this? Are they really faster/better >> than a old-fashioned spinny drive or is it just hype? >> >> -p >> > > My Drobo has a somewhat similar set up, in that it has 5 spin drives, and an > SSD buffer drive. It definitely makes reading and writing to the drive > faster. I put the SSD in a few weeks after putting the unit into operation, > and noticed an immediate speed increase. > > -- > 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.
