I did NOT buy an iMac

[davemchine]

I DO remember that! It was slow slow slow but storage was precious in those days. I there there was also a ram doubler as well.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

space-time wrote:
[quote=N-OS X-tasy!]
[quote=davemchine]
It was $449 shipped to my house.

Showing as $329 now.
I don't see $329 for the 480 GB that lazydays got
You're right - that price was for the 250 GB drive, the largest that was listed when I looked. My bad.

[steve...]

davemchine wrote:
In reading the amazon reviews the most common complaint is heat. I'll have to report back on that after more use. I have it sitting on he iMac pedestal and it looks very natural there.

The Crucial boot drive that I have in a USB2 dock doesn't seem to get hot at all. I'm under the impression that SSDs are cooler.

[Robert M]

Steve,

Same with the Crucial M500 I have in a drive dock connected to my office's '08 iMac. The only time it gets warm is during intensive disk activity and even then it's not particularly hot. An SSD may get particularly hot while the machine indexes the drive for spotlight.

Robert

[sekker]

Robert M wrote:
Steve,

Same with the Crucial M500 I have in a drive dock connected to my office's '08 iMac. The only time it gets warm is during intensive disk activity and even then it's not particularly hot. An SSD may get particularly hot while the machine indexes the drive for spotlight.

Robert

Yes, this is an unusual aspect of SSDs. I've had a new external get quite hot during initial setup after cloning a ton of data. I think the issue is simply one where so much data is moving along the pipes that we are driving the hardware at (or beyond) specs.