![]() ![]() It’s not even the first time Apple has replaced superior storage with something worse, as the first fusion drives came with 128GB SSDs matched with a 1TB hard disk, while later versions dropped the SSD storage as low as 24GB –my 2019 iMac had a 32GB SSD component in its fusion drive. The thinking was that the computer would automatically keep the most-accessed data on the SSD to keep things snappy, and mostly it worked, but for power users routinely using lots of apps with intense file sizes, it could feel like a penalty. At the time, Apple used a hybrid storage solution that to the casual observer was a single drive, but which was actually an SSD and a standard hard disk. Users of that machine were (and likely still are) severely bottlenecked by that mechanical disk.Īnd upgrading didn’t necessarily make things that much better. In fact, it’s only been three years since the last iMac with a mechanical hard drive, the 2020 21.5-inch iMac – its cheapest all-in-one computer – with a 5,400RPM hard drive. ![]() ![]() Getting to fire up BlackMagic Disk Speed and watch your SSD soar to the multiple thousands is thrilling for those of us nerdy enough to know what the numbers mean, and throwing down for Apple’s obscene upgraded storage prices… it burns! It burns us! But that Apple would include slower storage in its machines is not a new idea, and it’s been far worse in the past.
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