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A 512GB ssd costs somewhere around £100. That puts the cost of 10GB at about £2.
by Retr0spectrum 11y ago
A 512GB ssd costs somewhere around £100.
That puts the cost of 10GB at about £2.
- albasha 11y agoNot really willing to change the SSD that came with my 2015 Mac.
- ropiku 11y agoThat'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 11y agoAFAIK 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 11y agoThese 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 11y agoThat'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 11y agoI said some Macs (thinking about the 12" retina) but I think that's where they are moving.
- jahewson 11y agoAssuming 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 11y agoMaybe you should opt for a more serviceable notebook, then?
- aplummer 11y agoRolls eyes. Thanks for the snark - the many iOS and Mac developers on HN
- y4mi 11y agosomeone using apples really should complain about prices though. its their choice to pay thrice of the market price.
- andrepd 11y agoI 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 11y agoWell, you bought into Apple's system. They almost always overcharge for hardware.
- tedmiston 11y agoOne 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 11y agoDid you work as developer and make money with your machine?
- viperscape 11y agoJust wait for this summer, 3d nand is shaking things up in ssd world. Platter drives might even become obsolete by next year.
- CamatHN 11y agoAssuming you use all of the 512GB, if I wasn't needing to use the 10GB free then the 10GB costs $100.