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Seriously? As I sit here, I have over 4TB of external storage hooked up to my MacBook Pro already, another 2TB standing by, and a few TB more available over my

by nknight 15y ago

Seriously? As I sit here, I have over 4TB of external storage hooked up to my MacBook Pro already, another 2TB standing by, and a few TB more available over my gigabit LAN, but when I'm not at my desk, where exactly do you think all that storage is? Floating weightlessly beside my head ready to jump into action at a moment's notice? You want me to have to pull out and hook up an external drive in Starbucks or a conference room or wherever? What do you want me to do when I don't have that option, and instead have to wait around for that critical video, or virtual machine, or whatever, to copy off my external HDD onto my tiny, overpriced internal SSD on which it may not even fit? Even just managing the placement of files and keeping track of which versions are current or not is a pain in the ass, but what do you want me to do when I have 30 seconds to copy 40GB? Think real world, not some bizarre happyland where those ports on the side of your laptop mean you can do anything with it anywhere.

defen 15y ago
You can have the best of both worlds: http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-replace-your-macbooks-optical-drive-with-an-ssd/ http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-replace-your-macbooks-optical...
- nknight 15y ago
  No, I can't. For the moment, I need that optical drive rather badly. In the future, I won't even have the option, as Apple is highly likely to eliminate it entirely in the next few iterations.
  - shinratdr 15y ago
    K then since you can't give up a hard drive or optical drive, just get ready to lug around a desktop for the rest of your life because apparently whatever profession you're in is years behind everyone else. For 99% of users, an SSD and some sort of data drive is a perfectly workable solution. You're the outlier here.
    - nknight 15y ago
      Development and operation of internet-based services is "years behind everyone else"? What is it you think "everyone else" is doing? And how will anyone manage to have an SSD and data drive in their laptop when there's no physical room for it?
      - Bud 15y ago
        There certainly is room for it. SSDs are just rather small circuit boards with a bunch of memory chips on them. So any laptop big enough to hold a 2.5" hard drive can also hold that hard drive plus an SSD, rather easily.
      - jasonlotito 15y ago
        > What is it you think "everyone else" is doing? Not needing 9TB and an optical drive to do it? Really, you have specific needs. That's fine. But it's fairly egotistical to think that a consumer company like Apple will make something to meet your simple needs. What I said stands. What you apparently lack is the ability to put it together.
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- nirvdrum 15y ago
  FYI, you'll be in for a lot of heartache should you ever need that optical drive. On machines that ship with an optical drive, Apple provides a firmware that refuses to boot off USB or firewire optical drives. It'll start, but then it'll fail pretty quickly. The only solution is to crack open your machine and slip your SuperDrive back in. Oh, they also block booting from USB flash or disk drives. So, don't try that as a workaround either.
burgerbrain 15y ago
Has Apple not mastered the oh so tricky technology of "two harddrives inside of one computer" then?
- Turing_Machine 15y ago
  The Mac Pro has 4 3.5" drive bays and 2 5.25" bays, so yes. I'd be interested to hear about any "tricky technology" that would let you put two regular hard drives in a Macbook Air.
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jasonlotito 15y ago
> Seriously? Yes. > As I sit here, I have over 4TB of external storage hooked up... I'm not talking about external drives. Why are you? You do realize that computers can have more than one drive, right? I mean, even laptops? > You want me to have to pull out and hook up an external drive in Starbucks or a conference room or wherever? I don't know. What do you do now when you already have 4TB of external storage. I mean, please, share with me what you do now when you have that 4TB file that you need with you at all times, how do you handle that now? > What do you want me to do when I don't have that option, When you don't have the option to connect 4TB of external storage? Really, you should spend a few minutes reading your post. Your coming across like a self-entitled ignorant ass with noting to contribute. Check yourself.

by nknight 15y ago

defen 15y ago

You can have the best of both worlds: http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-replace-your-macbooks-optical-drive-with-an-ssd/ http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-replace-your-macbooks-optical...

nknight 15y ago
No, I can't. For the moment, I need that optical drive rather badly. In the future, I won't even have the option, as Apple is highly likely to eliminate it entirely in the next few iterations.
- shinratdr 15y ago
  K then since you can't give up a hard drive or optical drive, just get ready to lug around a desktop for the rest of your life because apparently whatever profession you're in is years behind everyone else. For 99% of users, an SSD and some sort of data drive is a perfectly workable solution. You're the outlier here.
  - nknight 15y ago
    Development and operation of internet-based services is "years behind everyone else"? What is it you think "everyone else" is doing? And how will anyone manage to have an SSD and data drive in their laptop when there's no physical room for it?
    - Bud 15y ago
      There certainly is room for it. SSDs are just rather small circuit boards with a bunch of memory chips on them. So any laptop big enough to hold a 2.5" hard drive can also hold that hard drive plus an SSD, rather easily.
    - jasonlotito 15y ago
      > What is it you think "everyone else" is doing? Not needing 9TB and an optical drive to do it? Really, you have specific needs. That's fine. But it's fairly egotistical to think that a consumer company like Apple will make something to meet your simple needs. What I said stands. What you apparently lack is the ability to put it together.
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nirvdrum 15y ago
FYI, you'll be in for a lot of heartache should you ever need that optical drive. On machines that ship with an optical drive, Apple provides a firmware that refuses to boot off USB or firewire optical drives. It'll start, but then it'll fail pretty quickly. The only solution is to crack open your machine and slip your SuperDrive back in. Oh, they also block booting from USB flash or disk drives. So, don't try that as a workaround either.

burgerbrain 15y ago

Has Apple not mastered the oh so tricky technology of "two harddrives inside of one computer" then?

Turing_Machine 15y ago
The Mac Pro has 4 3.5" drive bays and 2 5.25" bays, so yes. I'd be interested to hear about any "tricky technology" that would let you put two regular hard drives in a Macbook Air.

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jasonlotito 15y ago

> Seriously? Yes. > As I sit here, I have over 4TB of external storage hooked up... I'm not talking about external drives. Why are you? You do realize that computers can have more than one drive, right? I mean, even laptops? > You want me to have to pull out and hook up an external drive in Starbucks or a conference room or wherever? I don't know. What do you do now when you already have 4TB of external storage. I mean, please, share with me what you do now when you have that 4TB file that you need with you at all times, how do you handle that now? > What do you want me to do when I don't have that option, When you don't have the option to connect 4TB of external storage? Really, you should spend a few minutes reading your post. Your coming across like a self-entitled ignorant ass with noting to contribute. Check yourself.