Macbook Pro 14 internal storage ?

[Chris_99]

Hi there,

I have a question about specs for a 14 inch macbook pro.......I am in between 1 TB or 2 TB

I know SSDs, NVMes, NAS do exist....I guess NVME can give you up to 3 G/s.........so its kind of half the speed of the internal storage.

My specific question is what is the benefit for 1 vs 2 TB ?

1. 2 TB has more TBW....so gonna last longer?

2. If its almost full you will have more space for faster swap...once the device is old....?

3. processing power driving from internal SSD is faster 6 G/s so its faster speed overall especially if you work with larger files?

I know the consensus is dont go above 1TB....because external storage do exisist ....but I would like to know what are the benifit or downsides if you go for the smaller or bigger internal storage.....


If somebody specs a real beast with M2max and 64 or 96 GB and just 1 TB and another person takes the same device and gets 2 or 4 TB........would the person with 1TB device be able to compensate with NAS, NVMEs etc...or are there any downsides which he can not overcome no matter what he does? I hope you understand my thinking!



2nd Qs:

I found a solution to upgrade my internal storage as a permanent solution

Transcend 1TB JDL330 JetDrive Lite 330​

https://www.amazon.com/Transcend-JetDrive-Expansion-MacBook-TS1TJDL330/dp/B09WZDY7MM

is like 100 bucks for 1 TB ,

Do you think its reliable for storage of fotos and media files? Are there any drawbacks ? and flaws? would you recommend these as permanent solution? or should I not rely on something like this since it is unreliable? not always recognized? Maybe someone has some insight to this?

Thank you so much!

Chris

 

[iMacDragon]

I would never consider an SD device a reliable storage, fine for mass storage of non critical stuff, storage of a local copy of media files and such fine, but nothing not backed up for sure.

 

[Chris_99]

I would never consider an SD device a reliable storage, fine for mass storage of non critical stuff, storage of a local copy of media files and such fine, but nothing not backed up for sure.

SD Card would only store some fotos and media stuff not critical stuff at all.........I mean with reliable that its always recognized by MAC Os........not many flaws....

My plan was maybe get 1 TB of internal storage and then later on one of these SD cards and put some media and files on it ...so I will have an additional storage of 1 TB .....I can encrypt it with macOS.....and add the SD card to my timemaschine backup.......so both my internal SSD and the SD card will be always backed up once I connect my time machine to it. and when I encrypt it with Mac OS the data is also secure..........

That was my rationale, however I am not very sure if that's a good way or rather get 2 TB of internal storage if SD card route has major flaws and is not reliable......I am not concerned about the data itself .....I mean when I boot my device its always recogonized and accessible that would be perfect....sometimes It may not be recognized or you always have to reboot or put card in or out kind of this stuff ....thats what I meant with reliable......

Thank you!

 

[JamesMay82]

I know the consensus is dont go above 1TB....because external storage do exisist ....but I would like to know what are the benifit or downsides if you go for the smaller or bigger internal storage.....

I get this due to cost but it’s such a massive ball ache having to use external storage. You want to view an old family video but then you have to start digging out external drive. Then if your showing yours kids on couch you have to be careful they don’t knock the cable etc!

But when i eventually get a new laptop i would like to go for 4TB so i can keep all my important stuff like photos & videos, iTunes, and then all work/personal documents etc. that way it all live internal and i only need to worry about external for a once a week or daily back up etc.

I wouldn’t trust that brand of storage.. I’m a brand snob so would prob go with Samsung T7.

I really keep it to internal only though - more money but so much easier!

 

[Chris_99]

I get this due to cost but it’s such a massive ball ache having to use external storage. You want to view an old family video but then you have to start digging out external drive. Then if your showing yours kids on couch you have to be careful they don’t knock the cable etc!

But when i eventually get a new laptop i would like to go for 4TB so i can keep all my important stuff like photos & videos, iTunes, and then all work/personal documents etc. that way it all live internal and i only need to worry about external for a once a week or daily back up etc.

I wouldn’t trust that brand of storage.. I’m a brand snob so would prob go with Samsung T7.

I really keep it to internal only though - more money but so much easier!

Thanks for you input highly appreciated

 

[okkibs]

Do you think its reliable for storage of fotos and media files?

Not really but as long as it's part of the daily Time Machine backup I wouldn't worry about it. You just gotta have a backup of all the data that's on the Mac, somewhere. I do one backup onto the NAS and another on an external USB drive. If one of the backups gets damaged without me noticing, I can still get the data back.

2 TB has more TBW....so gonna last longer?

Technically yes, but the 1TB model already has such an extremely high endurance rating that you can't exceed it in 10 years even with professional workloads. For a M1 Pro 500GB Apple SSD you can expect to write a full Petabyte, and 1TB M1/M22 Pro models can write even more.

If you expect to write even half that, 500TB, within 10 years I'd really wonder what you are doing with that Mac. For reference, normal workloads write anywhere from 1TB all the way up to 20TB per year to the SSD. If you were to keep that up for 10 years, you'd be at 200TB, still a relatively small fraction.

 

[Fishrrman]

Question:
"what is the benefit for 1 vs 2 TB ?"

Answer:
You get 1tb more storage space.
(really, that's all there is to it)

 

[Chris_99]

Question:
"what is the benefit for 1 vs 2 TB ?"

Answer:
You get 1tb more storage space.
(really, that's all there is to it)

haha thanks I know.......I was just curious if there are some pro users out there who say the benefit of much larger ssd is you..... have more free space run more processes off the internal storage directly .....what I am referring to is that maybe.... there is much more free space of internal hard drive its beneficial for pro users .....as there maybe a certain ratio...maybe don't fill internal storage above 70 % to allow full speed of MacBook......