Ifixit sell brackets that let you mount the SSD in place of the optical drive for maybe $40.
It's worth checking with your model of iMac that the SATA connector in the optical bay is the same capacity as the one for the HDD (iirc 3Gb/s instead of 1.5). I'm pretty sure this is the case w/ the new ones, but not sure about previous revisions. This arrangement seems the best approach to me, with an external optical drive if you really need it. The newer imacs seem to require more (scary) work to be done, ie using suction cups on the glass (gulp) ... but my last imac (white one) was really easy to work on. Don't let girls too scared to open a computer put you off. If it were me, I think i'd work out how much room I needed for system + main applications + scratch space and allocate a few Gb for 'current projects', get the fastest drive I could afford which fit, put the other stuff on the HDD and do some judicious symlinking. http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/extreme/index.htm ^^ I gather these are the Good Ones, but I have NFI where the price sweet spot is right now for personal use .. /end flow of consciousness On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 1:25 PM, John Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > My take on it is, if you're serving something like a Rails app, disk > speed > > really shouldn't be a factor in your performance. If quiescent requests > are > > causing your server to hit the disk at all, let alone bottleneck > > significantly on it, you need more RAM. > > > > There are definitely apps where that's not true, like apps that have very > > large databases or apps that are serving large amounts of data, but for > most > > dynamic apps I think that should hold true. > > > > — ben_h > > I can think of at least one rails app where that holds true :) > > -jb > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > -- cheers, David Lee -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
