1T Why?

[mdwsta4]

As a photographer, I have roughly 400GB of edited photos on my machine then have 150gb worth of music. That's what takes up 90% of my storage space. I have 3 separate external hard drive with my system as well as another 2 for RAW files and videos. Back everything up every 7-10 days for redundancy. I do keep a good number of photos in the cloud/online, but that's never my backup solution; that's mostly for making sharing easier.


As far as theft goes, I can't imagine anyone ever going through the trouble to take my computer AND my hard drives. This isn't a movie. They're not stored right next to each other so someone would have to really want them if they went to the trouble of looking for them. My biggest fear is my building burning down or an earthquake, but honestly, I'd have bigger concerns if either of those happened

 

[Dimwhit]

I see people ordering specs 1T...I honestly want to understand what your needs are. I personally have EVERYTHING in the cloud, all backed up and synced at all times. Not challenging your choices, truly trying to understand use cases....

Among the other replies, there's also the issue that not everyone has fast Internet. Storing/retrieving everything from the cloud sucks when you're chugging along on 5-7Mbps or less.

 

[MBHockey]

And you took the time to reply to it? Wow, your life must be really empty 😳

It's just a lazy thread. That's all.

 

[vocalnick]

What would you say to someone who couldn't fathom needing more than 256 gb? Come on man...

I’d guess he would probably assume the question was asked in earnest, and either answer it (like a dozen or so people here have managed to do) or just click the back button and move on with their day.

But we all have different approaches to these things.

 

[DreamPod]

Not all of us use these things just for web browsing or organizing/editing a few personal photos. I'm a software developer, I have more than half of my 512GB onboard drive filled on my new Mac Mini. I didn't get the 1TB version because I already had a very fast 1TB external drive (using USB 3.2) that I can back up stuff onto. But if I didn't have that, I definitely would have paid to upgrade to 1TB.

 

[Polo2883]

Personally for me 1TB was faster shipping by 1-2 weeks

 

[glenthompson]

Because it’s a laptop that you might take to places that don’t have decent internet connections. While I keep everything in iCloud I still keep full copies on my MBA so they’re available locally. Also if it’s in the cloud but not locally, how do you make backups? While I could live with a 512gb drive, a 1tb covers me for the future.

 

[gilby101]

I personally have EVERYTHING in the cloud, all backed up and synced at all times.

There is a difference between sync and backup. With sync, delete a file by mistake and it is gone! With backup, delete a file by mistake and recover it (maybe months later) from before you delete it.

The standard minimum for backup is to have one backup nearby (directly attached or local network storage) and one backup off site (either physical disk or cloud backup service).

 

[deeddawg]

There is a difference between sync and backup. With sync, delete a file by mistake and it is gone! With backup, delete a file by mistake and recover it (maybe months later) from before you delete it.

The standard minimum for backup is to have one backup nearby (directly attached or local network storage) and one backup off site (either physical disk or cloud backup service).

True, proper backup provides versioning - but I'd tend to be very specific about it to others since I'm not sure apps are necessarily clear about versioning/lack-of when discussing backup.

As you note, copying a corrupted file to the "backup" drive doesn't help you recover the contents weeks/months later when you discover the corruption and all your "backup" copies of the file are also corrupted.

 

[Ocnetgeek]

I see people ordering specs 1T...I honestly want to understand what your needs are. I personally have EVERYTHING in the cloud, all backed up and synced at all times. Not challenging your choices, truly trying to understand use cases....

I don’t trust everything to the cloud. I like to have local copies of my files as well as anything I do sync to iCloud

 

[digitalbreak]

I see people ordering specs 1T...I honestly want to understand what your needs are. I personally have EVERYTHING in the cloud, all backed up and synced at all times. Not challenging your choices, truly trying to understand use cases....

I do edit videos in Final Cur Pro for my YouTube channel - so I need that space to store current videos, assets, music and what not. Also, even if you store data in the cloud, you still need to download them into your machine which will take up space. And external drives (even faster SSDs) can cause issues so I trust the internal storage nowadays.

 

[ant69]

That is what I am trying to understand, why store pictures locally instead of the cloud and load them on demand as needed....

what happens if your get robbed and your laptop and backup storage at home are gone?

What about both? I like to have my photo library (about 1TB ) local for speed, a couple of time machine back ups, and in the cloud. Multiple copies for security as I have over 20 years of photos and videos.

 

[ArPe]

what happens if your get robbed and your laptop and backup storage at home are gone?

The robber loses his legs. I keep my computer. It’s really simple old school rule 😝😂 I can back up my data in multiple ways but you can’t back up your legs 😜

 

[Graham King]

I would have ordered 4TB if it was an option, maybe even 8TB. I went with Apple’s 8TB on my 2019 Mac Pro. It was a dream. I also have everything in the cloud and I was able to keep a local copy of everything which then backed up to time machine. So I had 2 local copies and a cloud copy which had me feeling very confident in the longevity of my data. Now that I’m back to only 2TB I’m back to putting all my trust in the various clouds.

 

[ArPe]

It's just a lazy thread. That's all.

Threads like this are basically :

WHy dOeSNt evERyOnE uSe THe sAmE cOnFIg aS mE wHy dO u UsE tHe PuTeR diFFerEnt tO mE I’m SO perFEct Do It LIkE ME my MoMMY saID I’m SpeSHUL

 

[Phil A.]

I view Cloud storage as a convenience and a way of syncing between my devices, not as primary storage.

All my photos, videos, source code and cloud data is synced to my desktop machine, backed up to 2 Synology NAS devices in 2 separate locations and further backed up to Wasabi S3 storage.

Office 365 is also backed up to the 2 NAS devices and S3

My laptop is 1TB, my desktop has 5TB storage and I have 40TB of NAS storage

My data is my livelihood and there is no way on earth I would trust all my data to exist only in the cloud

 

[hugodrax]

Yep - I've worked in IT for over three decades. Unless there's a specific SLA _with_teeth_ addressing data loss, never trust cloud as the primary. Even just three months ago Adobe accidentally deleted people's photos.

And yes - my 25/2 is way better than the folks a few miles away whose only option is satellite or cell phone hotspot. Though when we were buying our weekend place I was very specific in checking internet capabilities of every prospective property since I planned on working remote from there 1-2 days a week. Then covid happened and we've spent a lot of our time there. County population 23k >> county population 750k.

that impacted people who did not have the lightroom cloud subscription or updated before the local copies did not sync to the cloud yet.

 

[hugodrax]

I view Cloud storage as a convenience and a way of syncing between my devices, not as primary storage.

All my photos, videos, source code and cloud data is synced to my desktop machine, backed up to 2 Synology NAS devices in 2 separate locations and further backed up to Wasabi S3 storage.

Office 365 is also backed up to the 2 NAS devices and S3

My laptop is 1TB, my desktop has 5TB storage and I have 40TB of NAS storage

My data is my livelihood and there is no way on earth I would trust all my data to exist only in the cloud

I follow a similar practice. Data is Money, could care less,if my desktops etc are destroyed since I can quickly recover.

 

[MBHockey]

I’d guess he would probably assume the question was asked in earnest, and either answer it (like a dozen or so people here have managed to do) or just click the back button and move on with their day.

But we all have different approaches to these things.

if it was truly in earnest he wouldn’t have had such a predictable response to my post. i don’t believe such an obvious question was truly asked in a genuine manner.

 

[acidfast7_redux]

I have several machines that I sync all together with drop box. A few TiB of photos. Maybe about 70 to 100k photos from my dSLRs.

I'd rather spend the money on the storage/sync than a larger SSD.

I also have every Office doc since 1995 I've ever made. Something on the order of 100K or so.

 

[vocalnick]

if it was truly in earnest he wouldn’t have had such a predictable response to my post. i don’t believe such an obvious question was truly asked in a genuine manner.

*shrug*

Maybe? But even if not, what’s the actual problem? This thread now contains a bunch of useful little case study responses to a fairly common question for new buyers. Is that so bad?

 

[aeronatis]

I have 1 TB and it is not enough. I often have to clean storage for my growing current video project. I know I can work off of an external SSD but there are times it is not as ideal as ust opening the laptop and start working on my videos.

Also, I have a couple Steam games which take up considerable amount of space. Add that to the temporary downloads and I am in a situation I believe the next time 2 TB will be the one for me.

 

[Hexley]

I see people ordering specs 1T...I honestly want to understand what your needs are. I personally have EVERYTHING in the cloud, all backed up and synced at all times. Not challenging your choices, truly trying to understand use cases....

Some people want everything local and internal. I'd go for that as well if Apple wasnt charging 4x the market price.

For my use case I'd rather buy a $240 2TB external SSD that can do 1GB/s read/writes to match with base model MBP 16" or iMac 27"

Really wish Apple had cheaper storage like say

• $900 for 8TB rather than 2TB
• $450 for 4TB rather than 1TB
• $225 for 2TB rather than 512GB
• $113 for 1TB rather than 256GB

It would make many a Mac user love them even more.

I'd probably get myself 2TB internal SSD at ~$225 as it's the highest reasonable price I'd pay. Even if 8TB only cost $450 I wouldn't buy it.

 

[MBHockey]

*shrug*

Maybe? But even if not, what’s the actual problem? This thread now contains a bunch of useful little case study responses to a fairly common question for new buyers. Is that so bad?

i’ve already explained it. i think he’s being disingenuous or lazy.

it’s posts like these that have driven the quality of discussion down into the dumpster on these boards over the last few years.

“omg i can’t understand why ANYONE would need more space than ME!!!”

 

[ArPe]

A few times I have been in such strict environments where:

Everyone had to sign NDA

No phones were allowed

No internet was allowed/available

In one of those places there was no reception anyway

Many GBs of data had to be moved manually with sign off

Security checked everyone going in and out

Cloud wasn’t an option because many cloud services aren’t as private as they appear or claim to be