Need some advice

[Greent]

Need some advice from the mac user

Plan to buy an imac 27‑inch iMac with Retina 5K display by next month and i got 2 questions (sorry for been silly)

Which brand of ram should i consider ? Any feedback

Crucial SO-Dimm DDR4-2400 16GB PC4-19200 1.2V CL17 Unbuffered NON-ECC Note Book Memory CT16G4SFD824A

OR

CORSAIR CMSX32GX4M2A2400C16 Vengeance 32GB (2x16GB) 260-Pin DDR4 SO-DIMM DDR4 2400 (PC4 19200) Memory (Notebook Memory)


Last question

Fusion Drive or SSD

Any big difference ?

Thank you v much

 

[arphamdb89]

Hi I’m not sure about the RAM, but definitely SSD. It’s very fast.

 

[PetPet]

Do you have an urgent need for the iMac? If not I'll recommend you to hold the purchase until a refresh.

For ram, I usually just get the value ones

You can find ram compatibility on sites like these

https://www.crucial.com/usa/en/advisor
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/apple/memory/

Fusion Drive or SSD?
SSD all the way, and don't skim on the storage.

 

[goldnut]

Do you have an urgent need for the iMac? If not I'll recommend you to hold the purchase until a refresh.

For ram, I usually just get the value ones

You can find ram compatibility on sites like these

https://www.crucial.com/usa/en/advisor
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/apple/memory/

Fusion Drive or SSD?
SSD all the way, and don't skim on the storage.

SSD is much more expensive.

Fusion Drive is cheaper but if either the SSD or HDD fails you're screwed. Data recovery requires sending both the SSD and HDD in as a unit as costs a bomb. Recreatiing the the FD format requires the command terminal and is very fun.

Forgot to add : if you're getting an iMac pro because you won Toto or something, both SSDs run in RAID format and can only be upgraded by Apple. Replacement of drives require serialisation.

 

[PetPet]

Yea SSD is more expensive.
As someone who has used both a Fusion Drive and a pure SSD configuration. The SSD one offers a better experience.

The choice is yours! Just to add on in the past 1 TB fusion drive configurations were given 128 gigs of SSD but now you're only getting a 24GB SSD while the 2TB and 3TB Fusion Drives have a 128GB Flash drive

 

[Greent]

Thank you for all the advice's. Really appreciate !!

I'm already own a 2015 Imac previously and was thinking is time to upgrade a newer imac a machine for entertain/work purposes.

Will keep a look out for their announcement.