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> by adding a SATA SSD (or replacingthe PCI-e blade SSD, but that's much more costly) I think that's all true. Also note that the external SATA SSD is going t
by HillaryBriss 9y ago
> by adding a SATA SSD (or replacingthe PCI-e blade SSD, but that's much more costly)
I think that's all true. Also note that the external SATA SSD is going to be much slower (500 GB/s) than the internal (1700 GB/s or even higher).
This is one place the drawback of the Apple branded, unibody iMac strategy reveals itself. In a more roomy, user-friendly, conventional box case with standard parts, the consumer has a much more reasonably priced way to increase storage capacity without sacrificing speed or paying two times as much per GB.
- mehrdada 9y agoFast M.2 SSDs (e.g. Samsung PRO series) are almost as expensive as Apple's proprietary SSD that you can find on the market. It's a fair point that one cannot opt for cheaper M.2 SSDs and has to either settle for the very high end or cheap SATA.