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Use external drives. They're cheaper and way larger.
by Aperocky 6y ago
Use external drives. They're cheaper and way larger.
- beervirus 6y agoAnd slower. And one bumped cable away from corrupted data. No thanks, not for my boot drive.
- Aperocky 6y agoNAS is a very established solution that is not expensive at all to set up at home.
- dannyw 6y agoTry editing 4K videos over 1GbE Internet from your NAS, because the mini doesn’t support more people 10gbe.
- Aperocky 6y agoYou still have local storage... This is the same concept as L1 -> L2 -> L3 Cache -> RAM -> Disk. When you need something, bump it up, when you don't, move it away.
- dannyw 6y agoI'd prefer to store my hot raw video footage on my disk, and my preferred way to do that is by buying a $350 2TB nvme instead of paying Apple $1000 or whatever for the privilege.
- thirdsun 6y agoI understand that it's less convenient but you actually can buy that 2TB NVME SSD as external drive too. It should operate in the same ballpark as decent to higher end internal NVME SSD options.
- unethical_ban 6y agoNot slower, with USB/SSD speeds today. Do you need a 512GB boot drive?
- whywhywhywhy 6y agoIt only has two ports and multiport dongles are not reliable enough for external storage, you can only trust the single USB-C to USB-A dongles for that so it means giving up a port. I have a base level 2 port MBP from work and having to do any work with large files has been a nightmare because of this, having to juggle power/monitor and storage constantly.