How I plan to overcome rMBP 256gb SSD

[01mggt]

Yeah, I don't mean to rain on the OP's parade but doesn't dragging an external drive around negate the design and portability of the MBPr? I thought the sacrifice of the ODD, Ethernet port, FW port, Kensington slot, IR port, sleep indicator, and upgradability/repairability was to live the nirvana of portability.


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I didn't buy it for the portability honestly. I was perfectly fine carrying around the 2008 umb I still had. I actually just bought it to get faster performance and a nicer screen. It just so happens it had the added bonus of being slim and sexy

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I would recommend 1 tb 7200rpm drive instead of the momentus xt. For media you won't see any speed boost. If you were going to install some programs however......

I've got a 4 shot RAID plugged into my time machine and a Mac mini double cutting as a server and plex player.

Honestly 256 turned out to me more than enough.

Thanks for the suggestion. but I already had the drive as it used to be the main drive in my 2008 umb I just sold I don't plan to use it for media hardly any. More than anything it will be running game installs from steam. The 8gb cache will make a huge difference for that

 

[StuMcBill]

I work away from home so I always have my portable HDD's with me and they seem to be fast enough for me (even though they are only USB 2.0), however, I was considering buying a Seagate Momentus XT (750GB) along with a 2.5" USB 3.0 Enclosure to use as a "fast" USB 3.0 drive?

Would there be any merit in this?

Stewart

 

[Trey M]

The OP is basically saying the few times they need an external they'll lug it around, but the majority of the time most people (dare I say all people) don't need over 200GB of data at any one time. The only thing I see taking up that much space is a large amount of either music/photos/video, and all 3 of those things are never needed all at once.

 

[Meever]

Can you even consume more than 20-30gigs of content before your battery dies? And if you're going to be tethered to the wall odds are having a little 2.5 external plugged in as well won't make that big a difference.

 

[01mggt]

I work away from home so I always have my portable HDD's with me and they seem to be fast enough for me (even though they are only USB 2.0), however, I was considering buying a Seagate Momentus XT (750GB) along with a 2.5" USB 3.0 Enclosure to use as a "fast" USB 3.0 drive?

Would there be any merit in this?

Stewart

The momentus XT will be faster when you are using alot of the same files constantly. It has an 8gb cache for really fast reads. Watching movies won't benefit much but if you are using a lot of the same files all the time it will be a very nice usb 3 drive

 

[StuMcBill]

The momentus XT will be faster when you are using alot of the same files constantly. It has an 8gb cache for really fast reads. Watching movies won't benefit much but if you are using a lot of the same files all the time it will be a very nice usb 3 drive

Well I work on an Offshore rig, so keep all my Movies on a 1.0Tb USB 2.0 external HDD (however, its getting a bit full), so I might get a Momentus to Bolster my storage, I know it won't be as good for randomly accessing different files, but I think I will give it a go anyway!

Cheers

Stewart

 

[flipnap]

I was up to 3 TB of storage on my PC at one point. I remember the days when a 350 megabyte (not gig) was in my old mac and my file maintanence habits were impeccable. With the price of platter drives so low i think we have all become data hoarders, instead of deleting and cleaning we just copy it all into a "clean me" folder, or start MASSIVE libraries that should be on a server (do you REALLY need 1500 movies stored locally?)

I decided to go on a diet four months ago.

I bought a synology disk station server and started transferring everything to it, but I cleaned while doing it. I couldnt BELIEVE what i found. NUMEROUS folders called "clean me" .."cleanme_A".. "Cleanme_b" and on and on.. almost 600 gigs of redundant files or just outright unnecessary. By the time it was all said and done I had about 200 gigs of "necessary" files left, and even those I could probably get by without.

Point of the story, I think we have all grown to be data hoarders or simply become used to carrying 150 years worth of music simply to have it at our disposal. I can now stream anything i want from my synology server and actually feel safer not having it all on one computer.

 

[magbarn]

I've used both USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt over the past week for moving photo shoot catalogs to and from my main system... and while USB 3.0 is tolerable... Thunderbolt SMOKES it.

You must have some crazy thunderbolt SSD RAID setup. My USB 3.0 enclosure max out around 250mb or so. This is very close the max sequential speed of the Crucial M4 512gb in it.

 

[Angus9541]

I bought a 1tb usb 3.0 WD My Passport Essential, it's so small and quick i'm really impressed, i'm thinking of buying another just as a back up disc!