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Originally Posted by AX17609
An SSD offers essentially no improvement in boot time over Apple's fusion drive, which is standard issue on iMacs. Unless an SSD improves audio recording and mixing performance, I don't see justification for the considerable increase in cost.
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I guess "essentially" is subjective...Apple claims the SSD is 50% faster which in real world terms might not be a big deal 20 seconds as opposed to 10 seconds
Also t the OP mentioned getting Pro Tools, which was having significant issues with the Fusion drive . Don't know if it still is but it was an issue.
And as jim1960 mentioned you can get outboard Thunderbolt connected SSD drive storage as opposed to the big Apple installed SSD's
And Protools also recommends having the sessions stored on a second/different drive than the boot OS drive
And typically the boot drive need not be more than 256 GB or possibly 512 if you run a number of large additional software Apps .