Small SSD with External Hard Drives
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 3:53 pm
I'm in the market to upgrade my computer (finally, yay) and found a good deal on a spec'd out iMac. My only reservation is that it has a 256 GB SSD drive (otherwise its got the display, processor, RAM, and graphics that I am looking for). This obviously isn't enough to hold all of my images, so they would be stored on an external HD while I would run all of my software (such as Lightroom and Photoshop) off of the internal SSD.
My question is, will I see any benefit to having an SSD internal drive if I need to pull the images I am working on off of external hard drives using a Thunderbolt 2 or USB 3 connection? Would I be better off having a larger capacity internal Fusion drive? I know that if I have any projects I am actively working on I can store them temporarily on my internal SSD and then export them to an external drive to archive, but am curious about working off the external HDs because I do that quite often right now.
I know that the performance of either option would be far superior to my current setup, but am wondering how different they are. Thanks in advance for your help!
My question is, will I see any benefit to having an SSD internal drive if I need to pull the images I am working on off of external hard drives using a Thunderbolt 2 or USB 3 connection? Would I be better off having a larger capacity internal Fusion drive? I know that if I have any projects I am actively working on I can store them temporarily on my internal SSD and then export them to an external drive to archive, but am curious about working off the external HDs because I do that quite often right now.
I know that the performance of either option would be far superior to my current setup, but am wondering how different they are. Thanks in advance for your help!