You may be able to save a bit of cash by fitting a smaller SSD. I recently bought a new iMac and chose the base 256Gb SSD since the bulk of my data is on external drives. It's not quite half full at the moment.
Regarding SSD reliability, just make sure you have good backups :) I don't know how much longer that machine will remain supported by Mac OS X. I was running El Capitan on my 2008 Macbook Pro but I don't think Sierra would have supported it. Cheers, Dave > On Jul 5, 2016, at 4:36 AM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > "Up periscope" after three weekends in Connecticut clearing out my mother's > apartment. > > My photo computer is a Mac Mini with a 2.4 GHz Core2 Duo processor, 8 gig > RAM, and a spinny internal hard drive (my pics are on a 1T external drive). > > I have been considering upgrading it with a 480 GB internal SSD and 16 GB > RAM. I figure that would cost $600-$700. > > Is it worth it, or is the performance of the i5 and i7-based Minis so stellar > that it's wortth spending the extra money? > > Cheers, > > Rick > > > http://photo.net/photos/RickW > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
