Once you go Mac..

[Marc Sims]

Am only now able to get the time to filter through yesterdays posts and am with Andy on the fusion drives although to the layman they're just called hybrid, when my original drive for my XPS failed after 2 years of heavy use I bought one as my main as I couldn't afford much at that time and went for a 700g Seagate hybrid that came with 16g of inbuilt SSD, after about 10 loads the speed increase was quite noticeable taking boots from 65secs to 45 ish.  Then after about a week stumbled upon a deal for some small but good and really cheap SSD's.  So I reinstalled everything again got the SSD as core boot stuff and installed a clever adaptor that turned the inbuilt DVD drive bay to a 2nd HDD bay for the hybrid.  Boots as you expect almost halved and the system is running sweet, coupled with an expansion 1Tb (spinning) drive velcro'd to the lid of the XPS for all my media, its a solid PC that's better and faster than the machine that came out've the box some 3 years ago.
 
I think with the Hybrids you get the best of both worlds, there's still a little bit of confusion re SSD's and they're maximum write capability which has always been a worry for me and all lappies nowadays appear to have the automatic parking accelerometer (I assume Apples have this too!) and so spinners are a lot less likely to fail.
 
As too changing to Apple, i'll leave that argument well alone and let the others give suggestions :D 
 
From: andrew at bml.co.uk
Subject: Re: Once you go Mac..
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 17:09:05 +0000
To: music-bar at lists.music-bar.org

Fusion drive is a great idea if you need to avoid external drives (ie you have a laptop) but I'm not sure they make sense otherwise. You're going to have lots of studio hardware anyway, so I'd add a cheap 4tb external and I'd go for at least 512gb ssd internal instead. In a few years when spinning disks are fully replaced by ssd, you can swap the 4tb over or relegate it to a sneaker net backup drive. This is my setup at the moment, I do everything on the ssd and archive to the external... I regret not getting a 1tb ssd, but then I do a lot of heavy video editing. If you plan on a dual boot with windows you might need 1tb too.
FireWire to lighting should be fine. 
The retina is something you might be kicking yourself about in a few years if you don't get it, with 4k being heavily pushed for consumer TVs soon, non retina capable machines will look dated in a couple of years imho... Plus you'll be able to edit 4k footage beautifully on the 5k screen - I don't know if this is a factor for you?

- Andy_R
On 24 Feb 2015, at 15:35, Tony Scharf <entropymagnet at noisetheorem.com> wrote:




So...my PC DAW died a sudden agonizing death. My data is secure and backed up, but it like looks like the mother board might be hosed. It's been acting up for a while, and the diagnostic I ran showed too many red lights to trust it with production going forward.So, I'm looking at getting my first Mac. This was the third PC I've had go bad not long out of warranty, and I'm looking to make a switch. My wife's MacBook has been wonderful for her, so I'm just going to suck it up and pay the apple tax.Right now I'm looking at an iMac 27 inch. Probably not a retina since it will shave some cost. I know to upgrade RAM myself. What should I do for storage? What's a fusion drive compared to a flash(I imagine that's Apple speak for SSD?).Also, how reliable are FireWire to Lightening adapters?  I'd rather not also have to upgrade my audio interface.  What does the bar suggest?  Tony 		 	   		  
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