On Thu, November 6, 2014 10:54 pm, Dirk wrote: > > On 06-11-14 12:52, rob wrote: >> On 06/11/14 11:30, Dirk wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I like to speed up my boottime of my Mac Mini / Instrument module. I'm >>> thinking about buying a SSD drive. >>> >>> How are SSD drives performing these days and how reliable are they? >>> What >>> about a SSDH drive? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Dirk >>> _______________________________________________ >> >> I've been using a Kingston SSD as the OS drive, since I purchased it >> in July 2010. There have not been any problems to date. > Do you have a particular reason to use it only as the OS drive and not > for your data? Afaik it is not possible to build two hdd drives in a Mac > Mini. The latest SSD drives will do everything you need when it comes to performance. The only issue is data integrity over the long term. You should get an external drive if you want to archive your work and make regular backups. You can get an external USB 1 TB drive for less than E50 these days. Please don't start on time machine and other (cr)apple software here though. Real men use rsync and cron ;-) -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user