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The 256 is too small for me, I edit videos sometimes. $200+ to upgrade the internal drive. I'm hoping the 14 inch will come with a larger internal drive, and m

The 256 is too small for me, I edit videos sometimes. $200+ to upgrade the internal drive. I'm hoping the 14 inch will come with a larger internal drive, and more upgrades.

dogma1138 6y ago
Samsung has quite cheap high speed external SSDs the T5 is like $150 for the 1TB drives now. USB type C Gen 2 10gig is fast enough for most video editing especially any editing you could do on a device like the M1. Personally if I was editing videos I would be using an external storage device both due to the capacity and the fact that my data is then portable. With the full disk encryption on the M1 I wouldn’t be storing anything other than your scratch pad unless you can guarantee a 24/7 backup as you go scheme anyhow since any failure would like be irrecoverable.
- jackson1442 6y ago
  +1 on the Samsung SSDs. I have mine partitioned 500/500 for backup and external storage and it works wonderfully.
- jsjohnst 6y ago
  I was just about to reply the same. I own a handful of Samsung T5 and T7 SSD drives (the new T7 being twice as fast, but also more expensive) and they are great. 1-2TB is sufficient as the internal HD for me (aka make no representation of other’s needs) and everything else goes on my NAS or when remote a SSD HD like the T5/T7. When I need extreme performance (aka video editing usually), I’ve got a Samsung X5 which uses TB3 and NVMe to get nearly 3GB/s speeds. If they weren’t so expensive, I’d use only the X5s, but instead have a mix of T5/T7/X5 for various purposes.
  - dogma1138 6y ago
    And potentially if you edit videos even portable SSDs aren’t enough. Raw 8K RED footage at 75 FPS which is what you would be recording at if you master at 4K 60* is about 120GB a minute that’s over 7TB an hour. No reasonable internal drive could support that and you’ll be looking at a high speed NAS or an NVME JBOD/DAS solution to support that. *The extra frames and pixels are really important for final mastering as you need extra bits to do image stabilization, cropping, color grading and sharpening correctly it also makes more complex post processing work easier to perform even things like rotoscoping are much easier to do when your objects are twice the size and you have much less pixel bleed between what you want to roto and the rest of the frame.

The 256 is too small for me, I edit videos sometimes. $200+ to upgrade the internal drive. I'm hoping the 14 inch will come with a larger internal drive, and more upgrades.

dogma1138 6y ago

Samsung has quite cheap high speed external SSDs the T5 is like $150 for the 1TB drives now. USB type C Gen 2 10gig is fast enough for most video editing especially any editing you could do on a device like the M1. Personally if I was editing videos I would be using an external storage device both due to the capacity and the fact that my data is then portable. With the full disk encryption on the M1 I wouldn’t be storing anything other than your scratch pad unless you can guarantee a 24/7 backup as you go scheme anyhow since any failure would like be irrecoverable.

jackson1442 6y ago
+1 on the Samsung SSDs. I have mine partitioned 500/500 for backup and external storage and it works wonderfully.
jsjohnst 6y ago
I was just about to reply the same. I own a handful of Samsung T5 and T7 SSD drives (the new T7 being twice as fast, but also more expensive) and they are great. 1-2TB is sufficient as the internal HD for me (aka make no representation of other’s needs) and everything else goes on my NAS or when remote a SSD HD like the T5/T7. When I need extreme performance (aka video editing usually), I’ve got a Samsung X5 which uses TB3 and NVMe to get nearly 3GB/s speeds. If they weren’t so expensive, I’d use only the X5s, but instead have a mix of T5/T7/X5 for various purposes.
- dogma1138 6y ago
  And potentially if you edit videos even portable SSDs aren’t enough. Raw 8K RED footage at 75 FPS which is what you would be recording at if you master at 4K 60* is about 120GB a minute that’s over 7TB an hour. No reasonable internal drive could support that and you’ll be looking at a high speed NAS or an NVME JBOD/DAS solution to support that. *The extra frames and pixels are really important for final mastering as you need extra bits to do image stabilization, cropping, color grading and sharpening correctly it also makes more complex post processing work easier to perform even things like rotoscoping are much easier to do when your objects are twice the size and you have much less pixel bleed between what you want to roto and the rest of the frame.