If you're on earth for 5 decades you'd know that 100Gb equals 12,5GB...which really isn't that much storage at all.
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I'd argue that this is more of a right-to-upgrade thing. Apple charges ridiculous amounts for ram and storage upgrades even though both is fairly cheap these days.I don't get this perspective really any more. We have over 1000 workstations in the office with SSDs in and we have never had to replace a single SSD. I have SSDs that are nearly 10 years old now and work fine. The only time I've had to replace an SSD was the very very high end enterprise Hitachi ones which had crazy IOPS 24/7/365 for years in really big database servers. There will be edge cases but that's what warranties are for.
If you run out of space, delete some crap or buy the right amount to start with. I've got less than 100Gb of stuff and have been on Earth for at least 5 decades...
I think at this point it’s more likely for a capacitor to blow than an SSD to fail because of age and wear. I really support right to repair and yes, SSDs can fail, but so can everything else that just has to be soldered. If people are that set on fixing the device, they can bring it to a repair shop that can solder on a new SSD. Apple doesn’t software lock Mac SSDs to the device. It’s extremely rare for the SSD to fail during the useful life of a computer. So mostly what it boils down to is people just being unhappy with Apple’s upgrades pricing. And I get it – if you need more storage or RAM it just doesn’t add up and the prices are crazy. But that’s totally separate from environmental stuff. Maybe Apple refuses to do it because they’ve done the math and decided to solder it because it makes sense to do so. Maybe they’ve done the research and not as many people want to upgrade their SSD as the CO2 emissions or waste saved from soldering it on instead of having to build a socket and an SSD as a separate module. We really don’t know how much that saves but I’m pretty sure soldering the SSD as just another chip on the board instead of having it as a separate package which makes the whole module quite a bit bigger which is more plastic and silicon. I think there can be 2 sides to this.I'd argue that this is more of a right-to-upgrade thing. Apple charges ridiculous amounts for ram and storage upgrades even though both is fairly cheap these days.
As far as repairs are concerned, SSDs are definitely more reliable now than they were in the past, but it just feels like such a waste to replace the entire motherboard with all the formerly auxiliary components when one NAND chip goes bad.
Some people (technically erroneously but still) say "Gb" as an abbreviation for gigabyte. So maybe they meant 100 gigabytes? which is a good amount more.If you're on earth for 5 decades you'd know that 100Gb equals 12,5GB...which really isn't that much storage at all.
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Well they do actually, check out Mac Studio. It has a removable SSD, but you cannot even replace it with a part taken out from another same-gen device.Apple doesn’t software lock Mac SSDs to the device.
Well it was bloody nitpicking on my part, then again in my defence I think when Talking Tech we all should be accurate in order to avoid misinterpretationHaha well played. Damn my failure on units. Stupid because I have an engineering degree and should know better!
Yeah, I should've been lenient in that nitpicking statement...Some people (technically erroneously but still) say "Gb" as an abbreviation for gigabyte. So maybe they meant 100 gigabytes? which is a good amount more.