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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by lamontcg on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @02:43PM (#29085674)
Yeah I just ordered a 16" MBP M1 and my math was that I routinely run with about 1TB of storage with a lot of fussiness, I would have ordered 2TB, but since it isn't upgradeable I ordered 4TB.

That made someone's numbers at apple like $400 better at least.

And it would probably be better for me financially to wait 4-5 years until I really needed 4TB before upgrading (if I ever needed to, which I might not).

Same thing with RAM. 16GB is proving to simply not be quite enough, so I would have gone with 32GB, but instead I went for 64GB for future-proofing.

I'd much rather have bought 32GB now, and then upgraded to 64GB maybe multiple years down the road when I needed it.

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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by radley on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @06:03PM (#29088040)
FWIW, a 4TB SSD with the same speed (7GB/sec) is currently $1200 ($750 more than the 2TB). So Apple's price is decent for the current market.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08Q54GHTC/

I'm certainly not enthused about being stuck with current market capacities, but at least I don't feel gouged on price.

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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by lamontcg on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @07:15PM (#29088821)
Yeah but I don't need a 4TB SSD right now. I barely need a 2TB.
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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by magicalhippo on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @05:48AM (#29092625)
At least that extra free space will ensure you have optimal speed (SSD's slow down writes when they close to capacity) and prolong the lifetime of the drive (less write cycles per cell), so it's not for nothing.
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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by sroussey on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @11:40PM (#29090882)
I have 2TB of data but use a 1 TB drive and let the OS leave a bunch of files in the cloud, the one I don’t use.
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