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> My computer has a 512GB SSD. I could devote 10GB to indexes of libraries and my own code without blinking Mine has 128GB, less than 10GB free.

• Retr0spectrum 10y ago
  A 512GB ssd costs somewhere around £100. That puts the cost of 10GB at about £2.
  • albasha 10y ago
    Not really willing to change the SSD that came with my 2015 Mac.
  • ropiku 10y ago
    That's for 2.5" SATA SSDs. Some people have embedded PCIe drives. And on some macs they are soldered. Regardless, reserving 10GB for offline help isn't that bad.
    • jaytaylor 10y ago
      AFAIK the point about Macs is untrue. While the RAM in many Macs is soldered into the motherboard, SSDs are not (they are often proprietary, though).
      • cpmsmith 10y ago
        These days they're mostly (possibly always) flash on the motherboard. Afaik, chances are the only way you'll find a removable SSD in a Mac is if its stock spinning-platter drive was replaced.
        • garrettgrimsley 10y ago
          That's only true for the MacBook, which isn't a suitable development machine anyway. In both the current MacBook Pro and MacBook Air the storage is a PCIe SSD.
      • ropiku 10y ago
        I said some Macs (thinking about the 12" retina) but I think that's where they are moving.
  • jahewson 10y ago
    Assuming you're using a MacBook Pro, it's going to cost at least $300 to upgrade to the 512GB SSD. Compared with £100 = $140 for a 2.5" SSD. Given I don't need that extra storage, the cost for 10GB to me would be $300. Ouch.
    • andrepd 10y ago
      Maybe you should opt for a more serviceable notebook, then?
      • aplummer 10y ago
        Rolls eyes. Thanks for the snark - the many iOS and Mac developers on HN
        • y4mi 10y ago
          someone using apples really should complain about prices though. its their choice to pay thrice of the market price.
        • andrepd 10y ago
          I wasn't being snarky, really. I was suggesting that if upgradeability is in your list of priorities, then you would be better off with another notebook rather than a Macbook.
    • imaginenore 10y ago
      Well, you bought into Apple's system. They almost always overcharge for hardware.
    • tedmiston 10y ago
      One alternative is a Nifty MiniDrive for ~$30 + a MicroSD card. I put m an extra 128 GB in my rMBP that way. http://minidrive.bynifty.com/ http://minidrive.bynifty.com/
    • progx 10y ago
      Did you work as developer and make money with your machine?
  • viperscape 10y ago
    Just wait for this summer, 3d nand is shaking things up in ssd world. Platter drives might even become obsolete by next year.
  • CamatHN 10y ago
    Assuming you use all of the 512GB, if I wasn't needing to use the 10GB free then the 10GB costs $100.
• progx 10y ago
  And you are a developer or a consumer?
  • albasha 10y ago
    Developer. I don't care about space because most of my stuff are cloud-based.