OWC - 2012 Holiday Catalog

[kj4btkljv]

Anybody else get and open up the OWC 2012 Holiday Catalog?

It's got this image inside the front cover:



I'd totally geek out and buy that RAM wreath if it actually existed...

Jeff

[datbeme]

Looks like it does...but it's not as pretty as the one above.

[freeradical]

Yeah, I got one.

[Black]

I wonder if the weird and persistent focus on RAM is due to knowing that most people won't see the need to add any after they switch to SSD booting.

[DeusxMac]

So that's what you do with ancient RAM!

I've got enough old RAM modules to build that easy.

[OWC Larry]

Wow - that couldn't be further from the truth. SSDs make everything so much faster, including memory swaps, vs. a hard drive - but are still about .5-3% of the speed of actual memory installed for the operations that can occur in memory vs. having to be swapped out.

Applications like iDVD/iMovie also need real memory to do their work and will even ask you to restart if memory gets low.

Processing in photoshop has no comparison even with the an SSD RAID when comparing physical memory to paged.

Running other OSs virtually (Parallels or Fusion) without real memory to back them is also night and day.

iPhoto is a heck of a lot more responsive with large libraries when more memory is available.

none of this is to say that an SSD isn't total night and day... But the combination of our SSD and ample OWC Memory installed - that's the knockout punch.

As a side note - 6Gb/s SSDs really shouldn't be used in basic USB 2.0 enclosures. DIY kits with SSD are intended for the SSD to be installed into the Mac mini or MacBook - old drive goes into enclosure - clean install OS onto new drive after initialization - Apple data migration clean transfer from old drive in external. Best practice and best result. It is less than ideal to migrate data to an external accessed drive and then move it internal for a lot of reasons and such not recommended. I also don't recommend cloning vs. clean migration when first setting up a drive - but that's me - and still, clone should be done after new drive inside its new home vs. done from old drive still internal to external. There are little differences with initialization via different ports that can create issues immediate or down the road. Sorry for the hijack.

Black wrote:
I wonder if the weird and persistent focus on RAM is due to knowing that most people won't see the need to add any after they switch to SSD booting.

[Speedy]

Thanks!

OWC Larry wrote:
Wow - that couldn't be further from the truth. SSDs make everything so much faster, including memory swaps, vs. a hard drive - but are still about .5-3% of the speed of actual memory installed for the operations that can occur in memory vs. having to be swapped out.

Applications like iDVD/iMovie also need real memory to do their work and will even ask you to restart if memory gets low.

Processing in photoshop has no comparison even with the an SSD RAID when comparing physical memory to paged.

Running other OSs virtually (Parallels or Fusion) without real memory to back them is also night and day.

iPhoto is a heck of a lot more responsive with large libraries when more memory is available.

none of this is to say that an SSD isn't total night and day... But the combination of our SSD and ample OWC Memory installed - that's the knockout punch.

As a side note - 6Gb/s SSDs really shouldn't be used in basic USB 2.0 enclosures. DIY kits with SSD are intended for the SSD to be installed into the Mac mini or MacBook - old drive goes into enclosure - clean install OS onto new drive after initialization - Apple data migration clean transfer from old drive in external. Best practice and best result. It is less than ideal to migrate data to an external accessed drive and then move it internal for a lot of reasons and such not recommended. I also don't recommend cloning vs. clean migration when first setting up a drive - but that's me - and still, clone should be done after new drive inside its new home vs. done from old drive still internal to external. There are little differences with initialization via different ports that can create issues immediate or down the road. Sorry for the hijack.
[quote=Black]
I wonder if the weird and persistent focus on RAM is due to knowing that most people won't see the need to add any after they switch to SSD booting.