You are right. It is sufficient for a large number of users. However, the Mac Pro is a high end workstation used by professionals, targeted for applications like high resolution video editing that require insane amounts of storage.
Relatively speaking, storage is cheap. A high performance, 1 TB NVME drive can be had for under $350. This should be the base configuration on a high end workstation...
What benefit does a 1TB SSD have over 256GB for a video workstation that needs to connect to a 100+ TB array for the real work? If your video editing task can get by with even the 4TB maximum build-to-order option, then you're not in the target market.
I don't buy it. Lots of "professionals" edit hour long 4K video that would easily fit in under a TB. Then they archive that work.
Even if this is not the case, applications alone are getting larger all the time. 256G is ridiculous as a base config.
Re:New Mac Pro
by dodobirdlord on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @12:34AM
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> targeted for applications like high resolution video editing that require insane amounts of storage
None of which is local. People have RAID boxes for that.
There is a point of diminishing returns, and given that most people don't have a giant Steam library on their Mac, 256GB is more than sufficient for a large number of users. And as many others have said, when you're working on professional data like video and audio it is almost always on an external array.