The startup drive is the only one which needs to be an SSD, where the virtual memory etc is stored needs to be as fast as possible.
Regards Sam MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development Sam Mullen +44 (0)7747778022 <tel://+447747778022> [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 7 Oct 2016, at 09:30, Jason P. Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Sam > > I've reinstalled it already. I'm wondering if it's the other drives. Start up > is SSD but the other disks (6 TB of them) are spinning ones. Not sure I can > upgrade them all! > > > > cheers, > > -Jason > ---------------------------------- > Sent from my iPhone > ---------------------------------- > > On 7 Oct 2016 at 07:52:41 BST, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Anything post 10.10 with a standard spinning drive will be frustratingly > slow. Pop an SSD in there and it'll speed right up. > > Regards > > Sam > > > MacAmbulance Ltd. > Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development > > Sam Mullen > +44 (0)7747778022 > [email protected] > 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 7 Oct 2016, at 07:47, Stephen Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a mid-2011 iMac with a disk drive so I've been used to slow for quite > a while. :-( > > I find that 80% of the time it doesn't reconnect to wifi from wake up and > after that initial wake, first thing, it can be painfully slow, but after > it's finished doing whatever it's doing, it doesn't seem any slower than with > El Capitan. I have 12GB RAM, but no idea if that makes a difference in this > case. > > Stephen > > You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. ~ Carl Jung > >> On 6 Oct 2016, at 23:44, Jason P. Davies <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi folks >> >> I don't like moaning about an OS upgrade but sierra has turned my 2010 Mac >> Pro with SSD into the slowest and most unresponsive machine I've used in >> decades. I'm very tired of the beachball. Is this just me or does sierra >> generally tire out machines? I've never done it before but I'm a mm away >> from reverting to whatever the last one was called. Curious how others are >> getting on? >> >> >> cheers, >> >> -Jason >> ---------------------------------- >> Sent from my iPhone >> ---------------------------------- >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > 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. > > -- > 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. > > -- > 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. -- 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.
