Fusion or ssd?

Zeebedy · 15 Sep 2018 at 19:23

hey guys,

As I’m going back to console gaming, I am selling off my rig for a Mac..

Will a fusion drive still be snappy enough for general use and (the only game I will play). CS GO?

Or should I get an ssd? I don’t worry about so this is not a factor...

Cheers.

Feek · 15 Sep 2018 at 19:27

I wouldn’t have another Fusion drive. The new ones don’t have a large enough SSD section and in my situation, it really wasn’t quick enough. My entire media library is on my iMac and I found that it wasn’t clever enough not to leave media on the SSD segment and push the OS onto the mechanical part.
When I split the Fusion drive back out to SSD and mechanical drives, there was a massive increase in system performance.

Zeebedy · 15 Sep 2018 at 19:29

Feek said:
I wouldn’t have another Fusion drive. The new ones don’t have a large enough SSD section and in my situation, it really wasn’t quick enough. My entire media library is on my iMac and I found that it wasn’t clever enough not to leave media on the SSD segment and push the OS onto the mechanical part.
When I split the Fusion drive back out to SSD and mechanical drives, there was a massive increase in system performance.

Thanks Feek. The one I’m looking at has a 1tb ssd anyways. Think I will pull the trigger on it..

LiE · 16 Sep 2018 at 09:35

I'd wait a few weeks to see if Apple refresh the iMacs with the 8th gen CPUs and other potential upgrades.

Zeebedy · 18 Sep 2018 at 16:17

Monitor arrived today. Immaculate and really fast!

Thanks for the support @Feek !

Only has Sierra on it, will wait until next week for Mojave before I upgrade!

Will get a shot of my new setup soon guys!