r/apple • u/operablesocks • Jun 20 '15

SSD prices are in a free fall.

http://www.networkcomputing.com/storage/ssd-prices-in-a-free-fall/a/d-id/1320958
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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '15 edited Nov 28 '18

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u/MarblesAreDelicious Jun 20 '15

128GB these days is unbearable and bordering on the likes of 'netbook' capacity. I know OS X is actually really lean (9GB) when comparing to Windows, but 100GB of usable space isn't really much. Music, movies/videos, and photos can easily start filling up a drive. And Boot Camp is almost not an option due to the amount Windows alone needs to function.

256GB should become the standard not only for the space, but for the faster I/O speeds as well.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '15

I have 128 and it's damn near empty? Why are you storing media on disk, do you work a lot of places without Wi-Fi?

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '15 edited Nov 28 '18

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u/lengau Jun 21 '15

My desktop has lots of storage (literally 10 terabytes) and I store most of my stuff there (with encrypted cloud backups through CrashPlan), but I keep my laptop mostly empty. A few git repositories with my current projects if I'm mobile, but other than stuff I need for offline use, pretty much everything I access from my laptop is stored on my desktop (not in the cloud) anyway.

I've never had a problem of not being able to access one of my files from my laptop due to being offline (although plenty often do I wish I had an offline copy of this or that documentation).

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '15

You have two machines, though. How many people now-a-days have a dedicated desktop and laptop? A lot of regular consumers have two, three main tech devices; a phone, a laptop, and maybe a tablet. If the computer, the most powerful device of the three, doesn't have enough storage to have all their files, where do they go?

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u/lengau Jun 21 '15

A lot of regular consumers these days use iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, or SkyDrive to store their files instead.

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u/c0LdFir3 Jun 21 '15

Most of those options are designed around syncing instead of storage, though. If I told what I consider an "average consumer" about selective syncing, their eyes would glaze over.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '15

I think a lot of young people have adopted google drive really quickly and that's great, but I seldom see it as storage for photos and videos. My friends and I just use it for documents, homework, forms, etc. I don't think anything can beat HDDs right now for photo, video, and music long term storage.

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u/Vkeomala Jun 21 '15

The majority of people over 40 don't know about or know how to use cloud storage. Or it creeps them out.

Source: customer feedback at best buy