Apple Drops Prices on High-End Storage Upgrades for iMac, iMac Pro, MacBook Pro, Mac mini, and Mac Pro

[Greymacuser]

No it's not.

It's for Apple's profit and overhead that fund a huge number of internal expenses that all large tech corporations incur, and most whine-n-moaners take for granted.

Keep drinking that kool-aid kid. I'll be keeping my money AND having a top of the line mac I made myself.
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what M2/PCIe SSD's did you get for $90? I would love to pick some up if they are $90 for 500gbs!
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Thank god someone said it. I know apple charges a bit too much for their drives, but the drives they put in their machine are top end drives that are built to get beat and give you full throughput for the life of your machine versus these cheap 2.5/M2/PCIe SSD's that can barely hit their peak throughput let alone a decent sustained throughput without heating up or dying.

Samsung SSD Evo 860s. They work like a dream.

 

[Sikh]

Keep drinking that kool-aid kid. I'll be keeping my money AND having a top of the line mac I made myself.
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Samsung SSD Evo 860s. They work like a dream.

A Samsung Evo 860 is nothing compared to the high end drives they use. They use drives equal to the 970 Pro. Look at the rated speeds and then look at benchmarks for both drives and youll see the difference in whats listed and whats actually sustained

 

[toke lahti]

A Samsung Evo 860 is nothing compared to the high end drives they use. They use drives equal to the 970 Pro. Look at the rated speeds and then look at benchmarks for both drives and youll see the difference in whats listed and whats actually sustained

I'd love to have the slowest 1TB ssd on the planet, inside my "new" mini.

 

[Sikh]

I'd love to have the slowest 1TB ssd on the planet, inside my "new" mini.

Its not even about slow, its about reliability. Plenty of cheap SSD's have been burned out within months of owning them. Hell some have died after stress testing / benchmarking them. I know PCIe/NVMe/M2 SSD's are a little more reliable but cheaper drives are still very inconsistent

 

[toke lahti]

Its not even about slow, its about reliability. Plenty of cheap SSD's have been burned out within months of owning them. Hell some have died after stress testing / benchmarking them. I know PCIe/NVMe/M2 SSD's are a little more reliable but cheaper drives are still very inconsistent

Reliability is easy thing, if Apple just wants it: swap the ssd and TM backup. But they choose to solder it.
Today, it would be so easy to all macs have "user serviceable" slot for ssd. Those blades are so small. But no.
I've been thinking this a lot, since the external home folder with my new mini does not work.

 

[Pman17]

I didn't even know they had a veterans store. I just spent 5 minutes signing up for that id.me account and verification... Now I get cheaper pricing. Yay! Thanks for the heads up....

Yea, it's great! Way better than buying a stock Mac at an exchange, I'd much rather customize mine.

 

[K4LK]

Yea, it's great! Way better than buying a stock Mac at an exchange, I'd much rather customize mine.

Love your avatar. I drove around east TX last June and visited several Buc-ees'. I counted 96 gas pumps at one of them. The place is so huge you can't see from one end of the building to another. I brought home a cloth cooler.