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Every machine I've worked on, bought or built has had 256 or 500gb. We only run the OS/apps on the main drive. Then a second drive for scratch disk and then S
by imagetic 7y ago
Every machine I've worked on, bought or built has had 256 or 500gb. We only run the OS/apps on the main drive. Then a second drive for scratch disk and then SAN/NAS storage for the media. It's VERY normal.
- hinkley 7y agoI've found that 256G is 'not quite enough', so my old Macbook has 256G and I moved my media folder to one of those flush-mount microSD card adapters. It's read-mostly so who cares about write cycles?
- imagetic 7y agoWe only store the OS and apps, so anytime the storage is full it's usually cause someone hasn't emptied their downloads folder or they're incorrectly caching the the OS drive.
- asveikau 7y agoMy experience in personal use is that data loss with microSD is extremely common, much worse than, say, magnetic disks (and certainly much worse than SSD).
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoUse industrial cards.
- asveikau 7y agoI used think that was the problem too. But then I had this issue with cards that weren't cheap.
- hinkley 7y agoI'm sure you're right, but with a read-mostly workload and backups this is less of an issue. I mean for one thing I carry a backup of that data with me anyway. It's on my laptop and my phone.