MP 6,1 Trashcan setup options using old iMac as a screen/HD enclosure?

[W R Wildwood]

I am running CS6 Premiere Pro alongside Photoshop and an animation program called Crazytalk 8.

My old 2010 iMac was just not cutting it, despite the OS running off a 1TB SSD in the Superdrive compartment and the 'read' files stored on the original 7200 1TB HD.

I picked up a Trashcan pretty cheaply (1TB ssd, 16GB RAM) and want to make the most of it. At current specs and reading from the old 7200 HD in the iMac (connected via ethernet and mini-display for the screen) it is almost exactly twice as fast at rendering video as the iMac was.

Now I could sell the 2010 iMac but for the price I would get I might be better off using it as a third screen and 'external drive enclosure'). So I am considering using the 1TB SSD in the iMac as the 'read' storage for the video files rather than the 7200 HD (which I could use as a backup drive for the SSD) and purchasing a Thunderbolt2 to Firewire 800 adapter... which should make rendering/reading a lot faster than the ethernet cable to the old 7200 correct?

In the future I will probably upgrade the Pro RAM to 132 and possibly the SSD to 2TB, but for now I am trying to keep expenditure as low as possible.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[rx78]

Is it a 27inch 2010? You can use target display mode but I don't know if you can use that in conjunection with target disk mode. I have mine set up as a display target display mode for my 2009 MP and it'll run my file-sharing in the background.

 

[W R Wildwood]

Yes, 27. I access the hard drives via ethernet in Finder fine while iMac is in target display mode. No need to use Target Disk mode.

 

[Fabian90]

Hmm I would buy a USB3 case to use with the 1TB SSD and then use target display mode. But you would need some cheap HDD or so to add to the iMac.

Using the SSD via USB3 will probably be much faster than using it via ethernet or so.

 

[W R Wildwood]

Whoops... I thought it was connecting to the HDs via ethernet, but it was connecting over the wifi network.

 

[W R Wildwood]

I don't understand why I can read the iMac's HDs over wifi but not via ethernet while in Target Display mode. Is there a work around?