I am thinking of upgrading my beloved trash can to a Mini M or a Studio. My 1 tb trashcan is about half full, and I can easily manage my files that way. Looking at the used Mini/Studio market, the 500 gb models are way cheaper and more numerous, so I am thinking of how to live with a smallish boot drive. What are the best practices to boot up on a 500 gb drive while large files automatically get deposited on the external drive. I don't know if that is possible - perhaps the reality is that you are continuously managing the load on the boot drive and dragging files over to the external drive.
I also have the sense that transfer to an external drive from the boot drive, even if both are SSD, is going to be a much slower process than the SSD drive soldered directly to the main bus of the main logic board. Is there some methods that makes the transfer as fast as possible, based on the right kind of SSD drive/SSD enclosure/cable type? If I were to get a matching hub under the mini that would hold another drive or 2 and have some other ports, I might be willing to consider a 500 gb drive model
thanks,
Jim
I also have the sense that transfer to an external drive from the boot drive, even if both are SSD, is going to be a much slower process than the SSD drive soldered directly to the main bus of the main logic board. Is there some methods that makes the transfer as fast as possible, based on the right kind of SSD drive/SSD enclosure/cable type? If I were to get a matching hub under the mini that would hold another drive or 2 and have some other ports, I might be willing to consider a 500 gb drive model
thanks,
Jim