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<blockquote data-quote="Bill Gates Jr." data-source="post: 1794243" data-attributes="member: 256913"><p>Read Harry's post from OWC founder. Can't say i understand most of it, but that's just me and my limited background. Beyond that I have two questions. I upgraded to two additional 8GB of RAM from OWC so I now have 20 GB total. i still do see on occasion the rainbow ball of slowness. I figured with the additional Ram that problem would totally go away. I know you say to check the activity monitor, but that doesn't show any problems. I too am running HS. Any ideas? The second question is since my iMac is a mid-2011, and HDs don't last forever, I'm kicking around the idea to upgrade to a SSD. On my 1 TD HD I use less than 150GB so I figure a 250GB SSD would work fine. Would going with an SSD do anything to lessen the chances of the rainbow ball of slowness or is that only the function of Ram?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bill Gates Jr., post: 1794243, member: 256913"] Read Harry's post from OWC founder. Can't say i understand most of it, but that's just me and my limited background. Beyond that I have two questions. I upgraded to two additional 8GB of RAM from OWC so I now have 20 GB total. i still do see on occasion the rainbow ball of slowness. I figured with the additional Ram that problem would totally go away. I know you say to check the activity monitor, but that doesn't show any problems. I too am running HS. Any ideas? The second question is since my iMac is a mid-2011, and HDs don't last forever, I'm kicking around the idea to upgrade to a SSD. On my 1 TD HD I use less than 150GB so I figure a 250GB SSD would work fine. Would going with an SSD do anything to lessen the chances of the rainbow ball of slowness or is that only the function of Ram? [/QUOTE]
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