Also SSDs are silent, good for us tinnitus sufferers. I’ve just replaced the
hard drive in my Sky+ box with a quieter one and that’s made a big difference
too.
Oddly enough the most attractive thing to me about the new MacPro is the
near-silent operation ;)
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On 17 Jan 2014, at 18:38, Tony Crooks <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sam is entirely correct. I’ve found read speed for SSD to be about 4 times
> that of an SSHD. But the write speed is only about 2 times. The two FireWire
> external hard disks that I have, compared to the SSHD are at about 75% on
> read and 50% on write.
>
> I keep both photo and video libraries on an internal SSD - suitably backed up
> - as it makes the apps work so much better in my experience. I’d like to
> switch my external hard disk storage to Thunderbolt but just too expensive -
> a reasonably priced Thunderbolt to USB3 adaptor would be helpful but these
> too are expensive. Ah well!
>
> On 17 Jan 2014, at 17:42, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> SSHDs are faster than a normal drive but nowhere near the speed of a full SSD
>
> Regards,
>
> Tony
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