256 or 512?

tonyt76 said:

Upgrading my 2012 macmini to SSD.

My question to existing mac mini owners is, should I go 256gb or 512gb. Are most of you finding that 256gb is plenty? I dont download movies or music.

Thanks

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You can always use a external usb for music and movies. You can move yout whole iTunes library off to the other disk. Then 256 will be sufficient.

I've got 256 on my iMac and without an external disk it gets full. Especiallly if you want to bootcamp or test run another OS as a virtual machine.

how much disk space are you currently using?

You may want to consider a larger drive if you intend to partition and install Windows or keep your image library on this machine.

tonyt76 said:

Upgrading my 2012 macmini to SSD.

My question to existing mac mini owners is, should I go 256gb or 512gb. Are most of you finding that 256gb is plenty? I dont download movies or music.

Thanks

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512 - you are going to open it once so why not put max you could afford ? I got 500GB in mine along with 1TB factory drive.

tonyt76 said:

Upgrading my 2012 macmini to SSD.

My question to existing mac mini owners is, should I go 256gb or 512gb. Are most of you finding that 256gb is plenty? I dont download movies or music.

Thanks

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You could get by with 128gb SSD and configure it as a Fusion Drive with the built-in hard drive.

I've found that as a casual user with a modest mp3 collection, a handful of movies, and a number of games, 256gb is plenty. I also have a partition for windows 7 gaming.

Truthfully, 128gb was too little but 256gb is working out amazingly.