![]() ![]() Each was bought with 1 TB blade SSD’s and we configured OWC Express 4M2 external drives and lastly a very large NAS system for the video archive.įirst you’ll need to break the Fusion Drive set following this Split Your Fusion Drive Apart Last year I helped setup 4 iMac’s for video editing. If speed is needed for the deeper storage I would go with a RAID’ed external Thunderbolt3 drive and not bother with the internal HDD at all! This allows the system to leverage the rest of the SSD as virtual RAM as well as cache & paging space for the apps making them much faster! A bigger 1 TB would be even better for video editing! I would configure the blade SSD as the boot drive with all of my apps and leave as much of the drive I can empty! So if I have 128 GB of Apps I would get a 512 GB SSD. Then you have the question of the PCIe/NVMe SSD drive.įrankly, I wouldn’t setup a Fusion Drive at all! I would limit the HDD to 4 TB as the largest SATA drive. Yes! You can remove your current Fusion Drive set and replace one or both of the drives.Īs to your choices here, I think you’re pushing it, a 10 TB drive is just too big for your iMac (heat & power) It would also be less attractive trying to resell and its performance might not meet your needs limited to SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) throughput. ![]()
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