iMac 27-inch, 1 TB or 2 TB?

Hello world!

I'm a 25 year old medical student who is looking to buy an iMac. My fiance and I commented on 27-inch screen and are not sure if we should get the Fusion 1 drive or 2 TB. Any suggestions?

We are not the players, photographers, photo editors or video or anything of that kind. I think the 1 TB would be a lot of space, but my fiance thinks that if we get the 1 TB (with 24 GB SSD) we would barely get a lot of use SSD because most of which will be taken up with the software. The gentleman at best buy told us that what we use for, the 1 TB would be well because even if the 24 GB SSD has been exhausted, us would notice no difference between SSD and the normal HARD drive.

Any advice/suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

An employee at Best Buy did not know what they are talkiing everything.

There will be a noticeable performance difference-down if you get an iMac 27-inch display with the merger of 1 TB disk.

It is because the 24 GB SSD, paired to office standards 1 TB hard drive 7200 RPM, will fill up almost with the operating system and installed applications (and third-party applications, you must install) not leaving enough data free storage for the OS to have certain additional operating margin to handle data on the SSD First, before having to access the slower spinning mechanical hard drive.

2 to or full SSD disk is a much better Setup for a faster than the standard desktop 2 TB performance, drive hard 7200 RPM is matched with a 128 GB SSD, instead, which gives much more room performance for this iMac to exploit more regularly than the SSD as a support of temporary data / disk space like scratch (as long as you don't fill the SSD with a large amount of third-party applications and real saved these files the ordinary hard drive rather than the SSD).

Good luck!

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