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128 GB doesn't work because it doesn't scale well with age. You can run MacOS or Windows on 256 GB almost indefinitely, even as they grow it would be five or m
by Someone1234 8y ago
128 GB doesn't work because it doesn't scale well with age.
You can run MacOS or Windows on 256 GB almost indefinitely, even as they grow it would be five or more years before it becomes a headache, to keep 128 GB happy you have to babysit/rebuild semi-regularly.
I'm yet to see an OS which doesn't bloat as it ages, even on mobile devices. 30 GB free won't be 30 GB the next major OS update, including rollback files, logs, and so on. OS bloat is also one of the few things you cannot offload to external storage.
And I'm someone that ran off of a 128 GB SSD for almost two years.
PS - Plus increased resale value will likely pay for itself.
- vetinari 8y agoOn SSDs, you also want as much as free space as possible, to avoid wearing out due to write amplification the few free blocks that are constantly rewritten.
- sjburt 8y agoModern SSDs (last 5 years or so) will wear level by relocating infrequently written blocks.
- reaperducer 8y ago128 GB doesn't work because it doesn't scale well with age As a counterpoint, my 2011 MacBook Air has 128GB, and works just fine. Photoshop, coding, and lots of personal projects. Maybe 128GB isn't enough for gaming, but I don't think that's what the "mini" is for.
- mattnewton 8y agoCounter counter point, my 128gb 2013 mbp I use for development has 90gb of “system” cruft somehow and I regularly have to shuffle files around, and have been thinking I need to re-image it since I can’t dig deeper into what the “system” bucket is made up of easily.
- geden 8y agohttps://whatsizemac.com https://whatsizemac.com - been invaluable over the years with my 256GB 2012 MBA.
- gshubert17 8y agoI discovered that the Chrome browser had been storing every previous version as it updated them. I had over 20 GB of old versions of Chrome, which I recovered when I deleted them.
- sanketskasar 8y agoGrandPerspective does it for me. Really intuitive interface to figure out what's taking how much of storage and delete it.
- davidwparker 8y agoI have the exact same issue. I have 256gb in my MBP, but 162gb are used by system files. I can't seem to figure out what is being used and how to clear it out.
- macintux 8y agoI’ve been very happy with Daisy Disk over the years. https://daisydiskapp.com/ https://daisydiskapp.com/
- jerrysievert 8y agoOmni Disk Sweeper is free and works pretty well: https://www.omnigroup.com/more https://www.omnigroup.com/more
- rconti 8y agoI have the exact same machine, 2011 MacBook Air, and it's always bloody out of disk space. It's the only machine I am constantly shuffling data around on. Delete photo library so I can upgrade xcode, let it resync from icloud next time I feel like having my photo stream. Can't use it to offload and edit photos while traveling, despite the convenient SD card slot, because the disk is too small. can't download an os update, disk full. And no, I'm not a gamer. I've been fighting that small disk for at least the past 4 years.
- robin_reala 8y agoYou can at least upgrade the storage on that era Airs, and in the last couple of years there are now adaptor cards for normal M2 SATA drives.
- reaperducer 8y agoI think the reason it works well for me is that I don't keep any photos on the machine except for the ones I'm using in Photoshop on current projects. And even then they're on a teeny weeny USB that barely sticks out of the side, and doubles the storage.
- megaremote 8y ago> 2011 MacBook Air, and it's always bloody out of disk space Obviously it depends what you do with it. A 1.5tb HDD can fill up on a week under some use cases, so it is silly to mention that yours fills up. The fact that some people can use it and it doesn't full up means it is still a viable option.
- rconti 8y agoObviously. It doesn't change the fact that an OS install and updates take up a significant percentage of that 128GB, whereas they take up an utterly negligible percentage of a 1.5TB disk.