Is Fusion 1TB upgrade best option for Mac mini 2014?

I am in the process of finalising the purchase of a 2014 Mac mini. Bearing in mind the once only nature of the purchase, I am going for highest spec.
My question is will the expensive Fusion 1TB option offer best overall performance? Will be used with Thunderbird Apple display.

At all costs avoid the standard hard drive - it is a huge performance bottleneck. The Fusion drive is fantastic if you have lots of stuff and want to avoid using an external hard drive to store all that stuff. If you have nowhere near 256GB of stuff and don't anticipate taking lots of digital photos, video, or downloading music, then the SSD is a better choice. While the fusion drive provides superior speed compared to the internal drive it cannot match the speed of an SSD once you've added enough data and programs to fill the SSD portion of the drive. (That's a simplistic explanation but accurate none-the-less.)
When I purchased my 2012 iMac I chose the Fusion drive because I wanted to avoid using an external drive for my data. I'm happy with the trade-off of speed vs size with the iMac and the lack of wires all over the place. Had I not been interested in avoiding the snake nest of wires I'd have chosen the SSD and external drive.

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MacMagnus wrote:
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