Ideally, you'll setup an Ethernet network between the different locations your systems sit and you could add in a few less obvious things like your Apple TV's via WiFi so you can share your medial library.Īs an example I have a Mac Mini as my media server which hosts a 4 TB drive for my music & videos. You can do the same here and by placing the system in a more secured placement in your house your data will be safe from being banged about or sprouting legs. You noted in the video editing suite we created we also had a Network Attached Storage (NAS) for the archive.
Since you have at least one other Mac system how about thinking a bit bigger here. If speed is not that important (not doing large video editing projects) and you really want deep storage (10 TB or more) I would still go with an external solution. Then to take current HDD out you’ll need to follow this guide iMac Intel 27" Retina 5K Display Hard Drive Replacement and if you want to get to the blade SSD you’ll need to follow this guide iMac Intel 27" Retina 5K Display Blade SSD Replacement and here is the needed blade SSD Apple Proprietary PCIe 3.0 x4 interface SSD’s and here more info on the PCIe SSD’s The Ultimate Guide to Apple’s Proprietary SSDs which explains in great detail the different SSD’s Apple has used over the years. Each was bought with 1 TB blade SSD’s and we configured OWC Express 4M2 external drives and lastly a very large NAS system for the video archive.įirst you’ll need to break the Fusion Drive set following this Split Your Fusion Drive Apart Last year I helped setup 4 iMac’s for video editing. If speed is needed for the deeper storage I would go with a RAID’ed external Thunderbolt3 drive and not bother with the internal HDD at all! This allows the system to leverage the rest of the SSD as virtual RAM as well as cache & paging space for the apps making them much faster! A bigger 1 TB would be even better for video editing! I would configure the blade SSD as the boot drive with all of my apps and leave as much of the drive I can empty! So if I have 128 GB of Apps I would get a 512 GB SSD.
Then you have the question of the PCIe/NVMe SSD drive.įrankly, I wouldn’t setup a Fusion Drive at all! I would limit the HDD to 4 TB as the largest SATA drive. Yes! You can remove your current Fusion Drive set and replace one or both of the drives.Īs to your choices here, I think you’re pushing it, a 10 TB drive is just too big for your iMac (heat & power) It would also be less attractive trying to resell and its performance might not meet your needs limited to SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) throughput.
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