One thing, once you get an SSD you can never go back to mechanical drives for system drives ever again :)

Peter, I do not understand the question.

I can barely face them now, and I've never used an ssd before!

:(

> Having been previously sort of opposed to SSDs I did a u-turn and got one the other day

...

I need more help.

Want, not need.

Use your thoughts, Luce.

I'll never be a Jedi :C

Fuck you, Obi Wan Boughton.

(tell me :'S )

Didn't you buy a PCSpecialist laptop?

If so the second bay is a replacement for the dvd drive so if you have one of those you'll have to order the hd bay.

That's what i did. I have an external dvd drive, which i've never used, and got a second drive in the bay.

What made you conclude that an SSD is better than a hybrid? Not that I disbelieve you, it's just that I've been looking at an iMac with the "fusion" drive (read Apple claptrap marketing spiel for 'hybrid') and felt a gut dislike of the name if nothing else.

Can't remember. Looking at what's on the market (here in Canada) now:

- hybrid drives are a lot cheaper than they were, but still >2x more than a 'plain' hdd of equivalent storage capacity.

- the actual ssd part has underwhelming capacity (e.g. 8 GB), which is used as a cache and not a standalone volume on which you can install stuff (I think. Is it even persistent?)

- so stuff like booting and program launching might not benefit all that much anyway

- "Improves overall responsiveness by 20% or more" Meh.

The actual reason why *I* didn't buy an ssd is because I only had one available sata slot (the other being occupied by a dvd drive), and I would have wanted a regular hdd on board as well for all the stuff I keep onboard, AND I run a 4-way multiboot (xp + 3 linuxes) so it seemed like too much of a hassle to work out how to put an ssd into the mix.

Have to say though that the latest iMacs are super fast. Which they ought to be considering the price. Not sure if any of the 4 we got in at work over the past year or so (most recent a couple of months) have hybrid drives in 'em.

Aah really? That is rather awesome to know. I've only ever used the Dvd drive for installing Windows, but can't that be done via a SD card these days?

I thought the hybrid drive was default, but it seems that that is only the case of the retina iMac.

Yes

:(

Why do you not want to think? What have they done to you to make you like this?

I have thought for literally many minutes and it is not helping.

I think he's having you on with a annoying clever play on words.

You said:
  He said:

He's probably gone all Times cryptic crossword on you with u-turn meaning a backwards or an upside down character, and 'got one' could imply choosing the number 1 rather than procurement of a thing.

So, what's Y upside down? Something like a reversed lambda symbol. But why two of them? Two lambda characters next to each other look something like... Two upside down Ys. Maybe they somehow form the logo of the company PB thought you bought the drive from.


 

fookin' hell, you've actually given that some thought! :/

Not really, just the ramblings of a bored worker.

I did wonder about the u-turn and upside-down/reversed characters but... yeah. I don't see where that goes with 2Y either.

[Peter observes his lab rats running through the maze]