Plain SSD vs. Fusion Drive ?

[toke lahti]

Options:
system and users on same fusion drive
or
system in separate ssd and users on fusion drive.

Which is better and why?

 

[komatsu]

You mean the OS one drive and the user data on another?

One option might be this: forget about your fusion drive. Use a pure play SSD drive.
Then for storage use an external drive connected via Thunderbolt. Best of both worlds then.

 

[Rok73]

You mean the OS one drive and the user data on another?

One option might be this: forget about your fusion drive. Use a pure play SSD drive.
Then for storage use an external drive connected via Thunderbolt. Best of both worlds then.

Why the external drive? That can't be faster than an internal Fusion Drive which is connected via S-ATA, can it?

 

[toke lahti]

You mean the OS one drive and the user data on another?

One option might be this: forget about your fusion drive. Use a pure play SSD drive.
Then for storage use an external drive connected via Thunderbolt. Best of both worlds then.

Plain ssd is not possible. Can't afford big enough.
Even if I could, I'd buy something else. I like cost effective technology, like fusion drive.

 

[toke lahti]

Anybody seen any real tests using same ssd plain and fusion drived?

 

[Fishrrman]

So long as you're using a fusion drive that has an SSD portion of sufficient capacity (128gb), things should run just fine.

Beware of the "1tb fusion iMacs" out there. They have an SSD portion that is only 24gb in size. Not really "big enough".
For the iMac, you want the "2tb fusion drive" (which has the 128gb SSD portion).

It would help if you told us what Mac you had in mind...?