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Don't want to loose another kidney to paying for extras. iMac

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chama98

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Really want to get the next iMac. However here is the sticking point.

I don't see the justification in spending more money for a 2 TB drive. My plan was to buy a new Mac and install bootcamp and have games on the bootcamp partition. However I have discovered that you can transfer games to an external drive in Steam and point Steam app to th game files.

The other thing is 512GB SSD doesn't seem a lot of space! I have a few games which are 32GB in size. With that in mind that would almost fill up my hard disk space!

Are Apple relying on its customers to use iCloud space as a way of getting around and indeed wanting customers to store their stuff in the cloud?

Personally I am slightly lost!
 
External seems to be the way to go. Certainly over 1TB, maybe even 512MB. This is top of my list when I upgrade: OWC Express 4M2

Thunderbolt connectivity speeds will be great for Steam, and there is the flexibility of adding NVMe drives as you need them for far less than internal upgrade.
 
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I would go with the 1TB unit and use external storage which I what I have done with my iMac Pro. Saved $$$. Key thing to consider is periodically trowing away junk files instead of leaving them sitting around on the desktop.
 
Cookie18 said:
To be fair most users won’t need anywhere near 500GB these days.

Just get a 1TB external SSD for games.
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Yeah that's what I was thinking. Looking at my drive at the moment. everything docs, photos, and music are all in the cloud anyway. The only thing which is taking space is my VM machine, and 2 odd games everything else app wise is small and not taking much space. Bootcamp partition can use around 50GB as I only use that for games.
 
chama98 said:
The other thing is 512GB SSD doesn't seem a lot of space
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It's all relative:
"IBM had created a hard drive that had the largest capacity ever achieved by man: 1GB. That seems hysterical given what we have now, but it was groundbreaking at the time. It was called the IMB 3380, and it was the highest capacity drive that money could buy you at the time. Actually the unit was larger than 1GB as it could store up to 2.52GB of memory, since IMB actually combined two 1.26GB drives into one unit. While its memory capacity was revolutionary, everything else about it was still ancient. The unit weighed about 550 pounds, it was extremely large, and it costed around $59,000…back in 1980. That’s over $170,000 dollars today! So while the device could hold a lot of memory back then, it was still extremely impractical and expensive".
 
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chama98 said:
Really want to get the next iMac. However here is the sticking point.

I don't see the justification in spending more money for a 2 TB drive. My plan was to buy a new Mac and install bootcamp and have games on the bootcamp partition. However I have discovered that you can transfer games to an external drive in Steam and point Steam app to th game files.

The other thing is 512GB SSD doesn't seem a lot of space! I have a few games which are 32GB in size. With that in mind that would almost fill up my hard disk space!

Are Apple relying on its customers to use iCloud space as a way of getting around and indeed wanting customers to store their stuff in the cloud?

Personally I am slightly lost!
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I just use an external SSD 1TB on USB3.1gen2 (not TB3 but you could do). I setup Win10 to install new apps - i.e. games - onto that. The Win10 boot drive is a 1/3 partition of the internal SSD 1TB.
 
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chama98 said:
Really want to get the next iMac. However here is the sticking point.

I don't see the justification in spending more money for a 2 TB drive. My plan was to buy a new Mac and install bootcamp and have games on the bootcamp partition. However I have discovered that you can transfer games to an external drive in Steam and point Steam app to th game files.

The other thing is 512GB SSD doesn't seem a lot of space! I have a few games which are 32GB in size. With that in mind that would almost fill up my hard disk space!

Are Apple relying on its customers to use iCloud space as a way of getting around and indeed wanting customers to store their stuff in the cloud?

Personally I am slightly lost!
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I use a 2TB External HDD. The base SSD with the external storage will do you just fine.
 
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