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@variablepulserate Seagate Expansion Portable hard drives have a poor reputation but their desktop drives are OK. My personal issue with Toshiba Canvio drives of 2 or 3 TB capacities is the interface between the case & the body of the drive itself, it’s not a standard SATA one, instead using direct contact between terminals on the bottom of the circuit board and the top of the drive itself. The other end is where my problem lies: it’s the horrid fat Micro USB 3 port on the drive body. They are prone to fail in such a way that a Micro USB 3 cable no longer connects but a Micro USB 2 cable (which fits in the larger of the two slots) will make connection, with a vastly-slower transfer rate.

Since upgrading my iMac from a 1 TB Fusion drive to a 1 TB SSD, I now have a spare 1 TB hard drive looking for a job.

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Crazy good performance from the 2017 4k iMac now the Fusion drive has been replaced with an SSD. there’s been a reduction in overall capacity, the Fusion drive was a 1 TB HDD attached to a 32 GB SSD. Big deal, I was only using 190 GB anyway.
Apps are much more responsive, opening faster, bootup is 55 seconds rather than 5 minutes. money well spent, I think. I’d initially thought about upgrading to a 5oo GB SSD but the quote from the Apple reseller’s service dep showed a 1TB was only $60 more than a 500 GB. Easy choice.

My iMac is ready for collection after having the Fusion drive replaced with a proper SSD.

@jussipekonen The playlist is 18 hours long, My trip will total around 9 hours.

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My iMac is ready for collection. I’ve had the 1TB Fusion drive replaced with a 1TB SSD. Might make it tomorrow but have a lot of driving to do. More likely Friday pickup.

4G on the iPhone SE (2020) in a country pub.

@streakmachine Some would argue the 17-in is to big to be portable…

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@jussipekonen 3.5 hours each way minimum.

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Antti Martikainen playlist of 13 albums set up on my iPod Touch for tomorrow’s trip. That’s more than enough for a different track on both legs of the trip.

Now, I could used the app on the big iPad but that would require me to use a different account. In December of 2019 I ceased my involvement with a PC user group as the co-convenor of a combined PC & Mac User Group info session held each month. But on their Microsoft system, I’m still associated with the now-defunct interest group and can log into its Microsoft account.

I could do that but won’t as it’s unethical.