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I agree. I was glad to find that it is easy to upgrade the RAM, it would be awesome if the hard drive was just as easy.

I ended up going the external thunderbolt SSD upgrade route, since I didn't really feel comfortable pulling apart my expensive new computer. It works great, but has obvious down sides.




What obvious downsides are you referring to? In the past it was performance, but that's not an issue with thunderbolt...


I have the same setup with an external Thunderbolt SSD (from LaCie). I'm aware of the following downsides:

* The only Thunderbolt port on my 2011 iMac is occupied.

* I can accidentally remove my system disk if I'm clumsy (and crash my system).

* I can't hide the disk and can see it if I stand beside the desk.

No biggies in other words. Very happy with the setup.


> The only Thunderbolt port on my 2011 iMac is occupied.

An unfortunate design flaw specifically on LaCie's part. As with FireWire before it, and SCSI before that, Thunderbolt is a daisy-chain interface. Single-port devices in such ecosystems are best considered defective.


And even then, if you have one device with only one Thunderbolt port, you can always place it at the end of the chain.


Yep, these are the ones I was referring to. Nothing major, and I do like my setup.


As someone with a 3 year old Mac Mini desktop because I was cheap -- External drives really clutter up a desk.

Of course, now even Mac Pro customers don't get the space to add more storage internally.




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