imac fusion drive vs ssd vs external drive

#IMAC FUSION DRIVE VS SSD VS EXTERNAL DRIVE UPGRADE#

Pretty discouraging for a brand new $1900 computer. Sadly, I've gotten the beach ball a couple times when opening Illustrator. Because Apple has a great return policy, I opted to go with the standard setup 1TB Fusion Drive so I could just buy it on the spot and test it out.

It seems like SSD will be the way to go, but I'm trying to justify the cost. I’m lecturer and teaching programming so I need to download many compilers. I wonder which one is good for me fusion or SSD.

#IMAC FUSION DRIVE VS SSD VS EXTERNAL DRIVE UPGRADE#

Going for a 27' due to the extra screen real estate, and the easy to upgrade RAM. Question: Q: Imac with fusion drive or SSD I’m going to buy i mac 27 for first time. And then of course the standard Firefox, Spotify, etc. Will mainly be using Illustrator and Photoshop, but would like to spend some time in After Effects. Some background: I'm doing digital multimedia design at Penn State, and will be doing some freelance artwork for my brother's printing company. While SSD is much faster in I/O benchmarks, in general there is not a huge difference in FCP X editing performance if your media is external. All my media is on a Pegasus Thunderbolt RAID array. I searched but the only things I could find seemed to be for older models. My main editing computers are a 2015 iMac 27 with 1TB SSD and a 2013 iMac 27 with 3TB Fusion Drive. Looking to get some insight into the setup for a 27' 5K iMac (2017).

Imac fusion drive vs ssd vs external drive