Frankly
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It pains me to realize how much I haven't paid attention to tech, twenty years ago I knew everything about RAIDs and SCSI chains. Then I stopped caring. Or at least until now ;-p
Right now I have a 2015 iMac 5K with a 3tb Fusion Drive along with a slew of 8tb USB 3 or 2 external WD drives. Every two years or so I buy a couple new external drives and stash the old ones off site, fireproofs, etc.
The 3tb internal Fusion drive is 80% full of apps, OS, small docs and raw files. My photo collection is running around 2.5tb and I also have some 4tb Time Machine files. (I edit ruthlessly to keep the size down.)
Going forward, halfway through this machine's life, what's the most efficient way to set this machine up? I could swap the 3tb internal for an 8tb one and have everything matching for ease of backup and duplication. I've never felt like the Fusion drive was "too slow" in Photoshop, I rarely have a slow down.
Would moving all my photos and raw files over to a USB 3 external make sense? Would going over to a SSD internal be that much snappier or would the saves over USB 3 be a bottleneck?
Right now I have a 2015 iMac 5K with a 3tb Fusion Drive along with a slew of 8tb USB 3 or 2 external WD drives. Every two years or so I buy a couple new external drives and stash the old ones off site, fireproofs, etc.
The 3tb internal Fusion drive is 80% full of apps, OS, small docs and raw files. My photo collection is running around 2.5tb and I also have some 4tb Time Machine files. (I edit ruthlessly to keep the size down.)
Going forward, halfway through this machine's life, what's the most efficient way to set this machine up? I could swap the 3tb internal for an 8tb one and have everything matching for ease of backup and duplication. I've never felt like the Fusion drive was "too slow" in Photoshop, I rarely have a slow down.
Would moving all my photos and raw files over to a USB 3 external make sense? Would going over to a SSD internal be that much snappier or would the saves over USB 3 be a bottleneck?