How do you survive?

[palpatine]

But external HDDs would get really annoying. Yeah it's good for backing up stuff, but I don't want to plug in a external HDD every time I downloadna song or want to add music to my iPod. I might just do the data doubler. However I'm still paranoid about it. It just seems like a bad idea when you start trying to do things that your Mac wasn't designed for. I don't wanna hose up my laptop as soon as I buy it ya know?

i've got gobs of songs. i can't listen to them all at once, and they are all on my ipod anyhow, so i don't see any point of having all my songs in my drive. what a waste of space.

i plug in my time machine drive once a day. i move stuff that i don't need off my drive and onto the 1TB backup drives a few times a week. i definitely don't carry the hdd around all the time. why would i? if i create something new or download something, the files are backed up to sugarsync on the cloud automatically, so even if i have something awful happen between the time i download a song and move it onto the 1TB backup, i'm covered.

i guess i don't constantly move stuff to my ipod, so it's not even a concern. i can just do it when i get home, since i've got all my files on the hdd there.

obviously, having every single piece of data with you at all times would be ideal, but like i said, once you get to several terabytes you realize it's not really viable. better data management is cheaper and safer (backups everywhere).

 

[Ladybug]

I use a NAS drive for most of my media files. I do keep some of my favorite music on my MBP, but have no need to carry it all around with me on a day to day basis. I also have a small external drive that can be plugged in if needed, and it takes hardly any room in my bag as it doesn't even need a external power adaptor even. Then there is cloud service if need be.

 

[kasakka]

Spotify for music, around 30 GB for OSX and programs. Plenty of space left for other stuff. If you have a ton of music it makes no sense to have them on a SSD drive. There won't be any speed benefit to having them there.

If you really must have space, then do the optibay thing. The number of times you actually need a DVD drive these days is pretty limited so it might as well be the external drive.