Re:Apple Mac Studio
by adgjlsfhk1 on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @02:55PM
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a 512 gb ssd is kinda inexcusable in a machine that costs more than $1000 1tb of ssd is only around $100.
It's a bit miserly, to say the least
But ssd is not 100 usd gumstick from of the shelf it’s integrated and sports speeds of 7.4GB/s at the top end. Shrug
No, it's a $200-400 gumstick that you can get off the shelf
https://www.newegg.com/seagate-2tb-firecuda-530/p/N82E168202...
The Apple upgrade cost to 1TB is also $200.
Right, but the link was for 2TB at the same speed, and it's a $600 upgrade for 2TB from 512, which means literally $800 for 2TB in total, plus tax! To be fair, it is likely higher quality, more efficient maybe, but I just think it's quite a reach to charge $800 USD for 2TB of storage that's not uniquely fast or anything. If you think that's a good value, it certainly might be depending on your work, but it would be twice as good value if it wasn't twice the price as off-the-shelf.
That gumstick can be replaced in two minutes with a single screw if and when it goes bad. As opposed to spending your day at the Genius Bar. I like Apple stuff but let's not make specious comparisons. Unless you think Apple SSDs are magic and can never go bad just because they are soldered in.
A terabyte of dead-slow and flaky SSD costs a hundred bucks, sure. But it doesn't matter much because, in the kinds of professional workflows this machine is targeting, local storage is more like swap space than anything. It needs to be fast more than it needs to be big.
Re:Apple Mac Studio
by goosedragons on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @03:57PM
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A 1TB Samsung 980 Pro is $150 retail and arguably overpriced. 512GB in a $2000 computer is a joke in 2022.
Re:Apple Mac Studio
by assttoasstmgr on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @06:41PM
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You're forgetting Apple sources their SSDs from the same merchant that sold Jack the magic beanstalk beans. Or they just get generic chips from Hynix. One of those.
>arguably overpriced
Find me a 1TB SSD that perform as fast as Samsung 980 Pro and is much cheaper. Say under $125.
$600 extra for a 2tb drive. So they're just giving them away now? /s
it's there for framing, solely to push you to the next tier
Re:Apple Mac Studio
by heavyset_go on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @06:31PM
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Not at all. You could buy 32GB of RAM and a 512GB NVMe drive for a couple hundred dollars.
Maybe not, but 32GB RAM + 512GB SSD for $2k is a pretty competitive price point.