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SSD such as the MX100 have their uses where they don't have to be pushed hard, the way a professional mainstay is. Mind, this concerns heavy professional usage. #2012 mac mini i7 quad core for pro tools seriesI had a Crucial MX100 for testing, and found both its professional cousin from Crucial, the 500 series, and the new Samsung 850 Pro series consistently faster on read and write.Įnough so that I would not use the MX100 in preference to a Crucial 500 or Samsung 850 Pro for my primary disk, unless vitally strapped for cash, and then only in preference to a slow hard disk. I believe its MLCThere's a plethora of tests out there. Would you know if the Crucial MX100 is up to snuff So I urge them to invest in a minimal safety net, with shipboard means. But these days, few people do until they get burnt. Seasoned pros would add off-site storage and other media, like long-term storage computer tapes. Of course, multiple separate redundant disk units would be the minimum for viable safety. Therefore my advice: if you have extra storage capacity, and don't use it right away for work, use it at least for backup. A viable backup strategy is frequently delayed until disaster strikes. When someone like the original poster starts out, they are usually put off by the amount of money they should spend on redundant backup capacity, in addition to what they already spend on primary computers and immediate storage. If you have a large hard disk, which I always recommend to be at least a mirror array of twin disks, and the disk capacity is considerably larger than what you need for your present and foreseeable library, it would be a good idea to partition the storage unit, so that you can use one logical volume, spread over mirrored physical discs, as a volume for backup. A physical storage unit, say, a hard disk drive, can be logically partitioned into several logical volumes. ![]() No! I've never heard of that term before honest!OK. ![]() (Can't repeat that often enough: Don't forget a backup volume!)whats a backup volume? another hard disk? Here I must disagree with cinealta above: (Can't repeat that often enough: Don't forget a backup volume!) ![]() In addition to the external SSD, I'd add a large, reliable external HD in RAID-1 (i.e., two mirror disks) configuration for library storage. On the subject of SSD: avoid TLC SSD (like Samsung Evo), stick to MLC (à la Samsung Pro or Crucial equivalents). The qualification, really fast, matters, because otherwise you'd be forsaking the advantages of SSD. There is actually little advantage in installing a second SSD internally compared to a fast external SSD in a really fast Thunderbolt or USB 3 enclosure. Particularly not for 2012 Minis that are valuable because of their Quad Core processor (as opposed to their 2014 dud successor), and increasingly difficult to come by. I've done it dozens of times, and it's perfectly feasible, but I wouldn't recommend it for one's first or only machine. If you're not comfortable with installing a second SSD in the Mini, leave it alone. So I'm thinking one external drive for starters.Here I must disagree with cinealta above: I don't want my first experience digging into a Mac to be on my expensive home studio. I know a lot of folks have installed a second internal drive, but I'd like to leave mine how it is internally.
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