I would imagine Apple haven’t optimised for spinning disks at all, given that all their Macs bar the 13” MacBook Pro and base 21.5” iMac have a flash drive as standard. The 21.5” iMac 4K with basic 5400rpm drive is woefully slow for a new Mac, it’s useless without the Fusion Drive.
Even Yosemite was noticeably slower on an HD than Mavericks. The software gets more complicated and makes higher demands of the drive, HDs don’t react well under heavy load, SSDs fare much better. Regards Sam <http://www.facebook.com/macambulance> <http://www.twitter.com/macambulance> <http://uk.linkedin.com/in/macambulance/> MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development Sam Mullen ACMT +44 (0)7747778022 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > On 12 Feb 2016, at 12:45, mac98aop <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sam, I realise that SSDs are inherently faster than standard HDD, but I > wonder if there's anything specific about El Cap compared to prior OS prior > versions and the way it reads/writes files, that makes this so? > > Thanks > > On Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 11:44:57 AM UTC, Phil Tomlinson wrote: > > Dear Friends I really need advice. > This morning I tried to open “Photos” on my iMac and, although its name > appears on the menu bar, no screen appears. If I click on “photos” in the > “window” menu, a screen does appear but it is blank and empty. Most of the > other menu items are greyed out. > Several things that I did recemtly may possibly have a bearing on this awful, > terrible event:- > 1. I installed “BeetleCam” duplicate cleaner first on my iPad, then on my Mac > and used it a couple of times. All seemed well. > 2. I purchased some file space on Google Photos and backed up all of my > pictures in Photos onto it. It finished backing up yesterday. All seemed > well. This morning Photos is empty!!! > I still have all my pictures in the iOS version of Photos on my iPad, thank > God, but I worry that if I sync my iPad with my iMac, they too will > disappear…. All my pictures are available on Google’s “Photos” but the > quality isn’t as good as on Mac Photos. > I want my Photos back!! > > Phil > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug > <https://groups.google.com/group/smug>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
