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<blockquote data-quote="rachalmers" data-source="post: 1822725" data-attributes="member: 402263"><p>Yes, 5400 is the old slow (cheap) drives. Get rid of them for SSD if you can. No reason you can’t run 2xSSD. I’m not familiar with the two programs you mention, but the words “media server” are a bit of a clue. Don’t know what SABNZBD is. But if they are high CPU users and high disk throughput users, they will certainly slow you down.</p><p>To give you an idea. Mine runs a lot of stuff in the background. It used to take minutes... to start up. On a 5400 hdd. I put in the SSD and now it takes about 8 seconds to fully start up.</p><p>I always use Carbon Copy Clone to make a bootable clone of my main drive. Run it once a week. When I swapped,just cloned the hdd to the SSD, swapped them in/out and booted up. Nearly fell out of my chair at the speed difference.</p><p>I’m running a web server, mail server, and lots of other stuff. Really fast now. Just running out of room!</p><p></p><p></p><p>Sent from my iPad using <a href="http://r.tapatalk.com/byo?rid=95677" target="_blank">Mac-Forums</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rachalmers, post: 1822725, member: 402263"] Yes, 5400 is the old slow (cheap) drives. Get rid of them for SSD if you can. No reason you can’t run 2xSSD. I’m not familiar with the two programs you mention, but the words “media server” are a bit of a clue. Don’t know what SABNZBD is. But if they are high CPU users and high disk throughput users, they will certainly slow you down. To give you an idea. Mine runs a lot of stuff in the background. It used to take minutes... to start up. On a 5400 hdd. I put in the SSD and now it takes about 8 seconds to fully start up. I always use Carbon Copy Clone to make a bootable clone of my main drive. Run it once a week. When I swapped,just cloned the hdd to the SSD, swapped them in/out and booted up. Nearly fell out of my chair at the speed difference. I’m running a web server, mail server, and lots of other stuff. Really fast now. Just running out of room! Sent from my iPad using [url=http://r.tapatalk.com/byo?rid=95677]Mac-Forums[/url] [/QUOTE]
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