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Re: NOOB: Graphics Card & mSata advice
Actually, I believe that the mSata is intended for use as essentially a flash cache for a conventional HDD, so that they act as a single drive with frequently used files stored on the mSata drive for greater speed. Which I believe requires drivers that don't exist for OSX.
You can probably use it as a boot drive, but it will have no advantages over a conventional SSD aside from taking up less space in your case, which usually isn't an issue.
With SSDs larger is essentially always better if for no other reason than the speed of an SSD is related to the # of flash memory chips and thus more storage = more chips. So larger drives almost always offer better performance than their smaller brothers.
The intel HD4000 is not actually currently supported in OSX AFAIK and probably won't be until new iMacs get released and/or ML/10.7.5. So you would need one anyway, though ML is probably getting released in about a week. So you might just want to wait until the 25th to see what happens.
The HD4000 doesn't suck nearly as much as older integrated graphics, but is still blown away by a decent graphics card. Also AFAIK they can't be used for GPU acceleration. The HD4000 is terrific for video transcoding, but that depends on Intel's quicksync, which doesn't function under OSX.
YK97 said:Wait so what you're saying is having the mSATA for booting and another SSD for storing my video editing files? that's hard for me since it's a bit too expensive and well ML (if i will use ML) is 4gb and all my media programs and such are all about 25gb so i don't think i need 2 64gb SSD's
Here's the Question 1 large 64G SSD (if so mSATA or Normal) for both booting + files or two smaller SSD's (capacity ideas?) one mSATA for booting and normal for files
Actually, I believe that the mSata is intended for use as essentially a flash cache for a conventional HDD, so that they act as a single drive with frequently used files stored on the mSata drive for greater speed. Which I believe requires drivers that don't exist for OSX.
You can probably use it as a boot drive, but it will have no advantages over a conventional SSD aside from taking up less space in your case, which usually isn't an issue.
With SSDs larger is essentially always better if for no other reason than the speed of an SSD is related to the # of flash memory chips and thus more storage = more chips. So larger drives almost always offer better performance than their smaller brothers.
YK97 said:Ok so you recommend using a discrete graphics card rather than the intel hd4000 is better/faster, and let's say if anything happens to the graphics card i'll have the hd4k as a backup?
Sorry for the trouble
The intel HD4000 is not actually currently supported in OSX AFAIK and probably won't be until new iMacs get released and/or ML/10.7.5. So you would need one anyway, though ML is probably getting released in about a week. So you might just want to wait until the 25th to see what happens.
The HD4000 doesn't suck nearly as much as older integrated graphics, but is still blown away by a decent graphics card. Also AFAIK they can't be used for GPU acceleration. The HD4000 is terrific for video transcoding, but that depends on Intel's quicksync, which doesn't function under OSX.