How Much SSD Capcity is enough for you? - 128GB v.s. 256GB

[jonwilks]

I think I have come to the realization that the max space I need for a "Boot" drive is 300GB...(MAX) I think I could make due with a 128GB on the air. So now its back to price.... well see tomorrow hopefully.

 

[Duke15]

Doesn't sound very portable if you have to keep it in a suitcase....

Lol, yeah Im planning on keeping the MBA in my flight bag as I work as a pilot, and keeping the portable hardrive in my suitcase which will remain at the hotel im at or at home if not gone for long. Its nice and light so I wont notice it in my lfight bag and if I get stuck somewhere without my suitcase atleast ill have the MBA with me

 

[Young Spade]

128. I would love to have a 256 but money isn't something I just have laying around. If anyone would love to donate to a very productive, intelligent college student, drop me a PM

 

[Twe Foju]

Well, usually i would go for 256, but again, i am not a guy who will have 100gb of Music or Movies,

i only listen and watch a selective songs and movies, i have a Desktop with 3TB to store my whole movies and songs

so i will go for 128gb for the sake of the price, because what i usually store on my Laptop are only work and a couple of music Albums and 2 or 3 games and maybe dual OS, which 128 is, i think, the most perfect selection

 

[alexandero]

As I'm constantly between 110 and 120GB of data, I wish there was something in between, such as 192GB.

 

[PDFierro]

What's wrong with 256 instead of something like 192? Probably would pay the same price as it is.

 

[dlimes13]

Well I would love a 2TB SSD but that won't happen anytime soon

But a 128/120 (OCZ Vertex 3) is enough for me. Just map my personal data to another HDD via OptiBay. If I wasn't using Boot Camp, a 60GB would be enough for me.

 

[alexandero]

What's wrong with 256 instead of something like 192? Probably would pay the same price as it is.

Why shouldn't 192 cost less than 256?

 

[PDFierro]

Apple is only going to offer two upgrade options, so I imagine they'd charge the same price whatever the jump is. I'm going to use about the same amount of data as you, and I'd rather just have the 256 instead of something bigger than 128 but smaller than 256.

 

[Indy89]

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I need at least 512GB SSD before it becomes useful to me. I'm highly tempted by the MacBook Air since it's redesign but until such time as Apple adds 512GB as an option it's not a viable laptop for me. I don't want to move onto using external drives or remote storage in order to meet my needs.

SSD prices can't drop quick enough for me as I want to move onto using them but there just too expensive for usuable sizes for me still.

 

[Patriot24]

While I'd like a higher capacity drive than the 128GB, I'm more concerned about Processors, RAM, and Backlit Keyboards. You can always buy more storage in the form of external drives/flash drives. The other items you cannot.

 

[PaulWog]

I voted 256GB, but 128GB is enough for me for a portable device.

I could definitely use 256GB, but I can get by with 128GB.

My 1TB hard drive on my desktop is only using 125GB right now, with three or four games installed and a few other things. I just recently reformatted, and I've been too lazy to toss all my movies and extra stuff back on the computer... but really, I don't use too much space up.

 

[ChristianVirtual]

128 GB is enough for me; mainly use it for XCode when on the road. Main storage is on iMac and NAS; iTunes not loaded as media device in MBA.

 

[theSeb]

My music collection is about 130 GBs alone and I have a NAS which currently houses about 3.5 TBs of movies and TV series and is growing steadily as I continue ripping my DVD and BluRay collection. I like to keep a lot of stuff with me, especially the music and some iTunesU content since I travel a lot so 256 GBs would be the absolute minimum.

 

[fkhan3]

I would love 512GB option. I need to install windows and some programs I use are quite large. I'd like to allocate 100GB for each OS and I need at least 200GB for data partition.

 

[Spankey]

If the Air is your only computer go as big as you can. For a mobile computer that works as a satellite to a home PC/Mac, then 128GB is fine.

Buy a cheap external drive for storage and backup, and also there is another 5GB coming with iCloud.