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Best Solution for storing files from a real old Partioned iMac...
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1699498"><p>Hard to answer that first question without knowing how much data we're talking about. If what's on it is about 100GB, then yes, you'd need a place to put it. But it doesn't need to be an different computer, it just needs to be on a external storage device somewhere. SSDs don't have an advantage over spinner hard drives in terms of life, they are all about speed. SSDs are many times faster than HDs at just about all disk activities. So it would boot faster, read a file faster, save a file faster, etc. The best overall performance improvement is to add Memory, but close behind is swapping a spinner for an SSD. In fact, adding memory and an SSD to my early-2011 MBP 17" has significantly improved the performance at just about everything! But I'm not sure I would invest that kind of money into your older machine. Three more years is a long time in computer terms.</p><p></p><p>As for the cloud, be careful how you proceed. Dropbox, for example, is great for sharing files (pictures, videos), but the way it works is that you have a copy on your machine in your Dropbox folder and a copy in the cloud. If you delete the copy on your machine, the copy in the cloud is also deleted. So while the concept of the cloud as a place to store stuff is great, I personally don't think it's a good backup location because if I accidentally delete a file from my Dropbox, it disappears from the cloud. Just be careful to read how any cloud service you may decide to use works to make sure it does what you want it to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1699498"] Hard to answer that first question without knowing how much data we're talking about. If what's on it is about 100GB, then yes, you'd need a place to put it. But it doesn't need to be an different computer, it just needs to be on a external storage device somewhere. SSDs don't have an advantage over spinner hard drives in terms of life, they are all about speed. SSDs are many times faster than HDs at just about all disk activities. So it would boot faster, read a file faster, save a file faster, etc. The best overall performance improvement is to add Memory, but close behind is swapping a spinner for an SSD. In fact, adding memory and an SSD to my early-2011 MBP 17" has significantly improved the performance at just about everything! But I'm not sure I would invest that kind of money into your older machine. Three more years is a long time in computer terms. As for the cloud, be careful how you proceed. Dropbox, for example, is great for sharing files (pictures, videos), but the way it works is that you have a copy on your machine in your Dropbox folder and a copy in the cloud. If you delete the copy on your machine, the copy in the cloud is also deleted. So while the concept of the cloud as a place to store stuff is great, I personally don't think it's a good backup location because if I accidentally delete a file from my Dropbox, it disappears from the cloud. Just be careful to read how any cloud service you may decide to use works to make sure it does what you want it to do. [/QUOTE]
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