
Balancing out the deeper storage HDD's with the high cost of SSD's. which is setup as a JBOD setup so its a signal virtual volume of 4 TB.įusion Drives as well as SSHD's are stop gap storage between HDD's and SSD's.

My two laptops only have a SSD and my media server is setup with two 2 TB SSD's. MacBook Pro 15' Touch Bar 2018 Released in July 2018, the 15' MacBook Pro, model A1990, features a 15.4 inch LED-Backlight display with True Tone technology, TouchID, and up to 6 Core i9 Processor. All of my desktop systems are setup with a dedicated SSD for its boot drive and either an internal HDD (iMac) or external RAID drive (Mac Pro) this is by far the best config for working pro's or people who have deep hobbies that need performance. In any case the issue of speed using an external HDD with a Fusion Drive set is not the drive but the external I/O which was your direction and not one I would recommend.įrankly, I'm into dual drive setups, not Fusion Drives. I think you need to do a bit more reading on SATA III drives and Apples blade drives The Ultimate Guide to Apple’s Proprietary SSDs in addition to the different high speed I/O systems like FireWire as well as Thunderbolt 2 and Thunderbolt 3Īs far as a SSHD depending on the size of the SSD within your Fusion Drive won't be that much of a difference. I'm not sure why you think an external SSD/HDD would be faster than Apple's Fusion internal drive configs. Apple MacBook Pro (2018) 15' Touch Bar & Touch ID / Intel Core i9 2.9GHz / 32GB RAM / 4TB SSD Lenovo ThinkPad P1 15.6' FHD Intel Core i7-8750H 2.2GHz / 16GB RAM / 512GB SSD.
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