Hello,
I'm using a Retina 5K 27" Late 2014 iMac equipped with a 8TB SSD. This computer is struggling to keep up with the latest software and macOS (it's running Sonoma via OpenCore), and for years I've been hoping Apple would restart selling a 27" Retina iMac, but as everyone knows, that's not going to happen anytime soon.
So, my only option is to buy a Mac Studio + either an Apple Studio Display Monitor or a Samsung ViewFinity S9 5K. However the biggest issue is the SSD, as I'm currently using an 8TB drive that is 75% full.
Adding 6TB to a basic Mac Studio equipped with a 2TB SSD would double its price. This means that (in Europe) to get a Mac with the same internal drive space as my current iMac, I would have to spend at least € 5,209, or about $ 5,650, which is a lot.
Is there any cheaper solution to easily add drive space, perhaps using a much cheaper 8TB NVMe card in one of the latest Thunderbolt 4 external drive enclosures? But on a system level, how would I manage documents, movies and large photo libraries spread over two different drives?
Any suggestions are welcome!
Thank you.
I'm using a Retina 5K 27" Late 2014 iMac equipped with a 8TB SSD. This computer is struggling to keep up with the latest software and macOS (it's running Sonoma via OpenCore), and for years I've been hoping Apple would restart selling a 27" Retina iMac, but as everyone knows, that's not going to happen anytime soon.
So, my only option is to buy a Mac Studio + either an Apple Studio Display Monitor or a Samsung ViewFinity S9 5K. However the biggest issue is the SSD, as I'm currently using an 8TB drive that is 75% full.
Adding 6TB to a basic Mac Studio equipped with a 2TB SSD would double its price. This means that (in Europe) to get a Mac with the same internal drive space as my current iMac, I would have to spend at least € 5,209, or about $ 5,650, which is a lot.
Is there any cheaper solution to easily add drive space, perhaps using a much cheaper 8TB NVMe card in one of the latest Thunderbolt 4 external drive enclosures? But on a system level, how would I manage documents, movies and large photo libraries spread over two different drives?
Any suggestions are welcome!
Thank you.