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Greetings

I'm looking to purchase a new 27 inch 5K iMac and am trying to make decisions about a hard drive configuration (both internal and external). I have about 1TB of home video projects and 3TB of photos, so I'd need an external drive since fusion drives only go up to 3TB. What I have in mind is to get 1TB SSD for my internal drive and then attach an external RAID configured Thunderbolt drive like this - https://www.g-technology.com/products/g-raid-tb3. It has Thunderbolt 3 and transfer rate of up to 500MB/s. Right now, I have a Thunderbolt drive that is up to 250 MB/s, but it seems like there is some lag time. I do a decent amount of photo editing and organizing and some video editing, but not much (all for personal and not professional use).

Would there be a significant performance difference between a RAID drive and the current drive that I'm using? Is there a significant difference between a SSD drive and the other 1TB drive offerings from Apple? And would there be a significant performance difference between an internal SSD and an external RAID like what I've suggested (my plan would be to keep most stuff on the external RAID unless it was a current project, in which case I would move to the internal SSD, unless, of course, the RAID offers comparable performance to the internal SSD)?

Basically, I'm trying to optimize performance without necessarily overbuying equipment and investing in more than I need to.

Thanks!
John

最後更新：2017-08-29 19:53:41

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