How long do you think until we see a 2TB Macbook Pro?

[ixodes]

Yeah, I never worry about size of my HDD....unless I take my laptop (or "portable computer") outside of the house. This is the same logic that people use for questioning storage on the iPhone, but cloud and networked storage will never be as good as having that same space on a hard drive.

Consumer-grade networked storage is generally pretty slow, and you are assuming that the computer is only used inside your home.

If you aren’t using a wired gigabit LAN, networked storage is horribly slow.

For clarification, I was not talking about speed at all. I was thinking storage. I don't know anyone that must carry around 1TB or more of data for their everyday needs.

The 512GB Samsung SSD I've installed in my MBP is more than enough for my day to day work. If I happen to require something that's on the network I simply move it onto my laptop before I go out for the day.

 

[Beta Particle]

Media - Have around 6TB of storage on the Hackintosh Pro. Gigabit wired, 300-600mbps wireless. HD streams without a problem.

HD video streaming is hardly a demanding task—the absolute maximum bandwidth you could possibly need there is 6.75MB/s. (Blu-ray max spec is 54Mbit/s)

If you’re actually trying to get work done with files—for example HD video footage or a lot of RAW photos from DSLRs, wireless transfer speeds are far too slow and inconsistent. I’ve never seen 600mbps real-world throughput (75MB/s) on any Macs more like 30MB/s in the real-world, and less if dealing with a lot of small files.

As someone else said, if you don’t need the optical drive, you can put two 1TB disks inside the current MacBook Pro, and if money is no object, you can buy two 960GB SSDs.

 

[plucky duck]

HDD is slowly being phased out, SSD is taking over. When the low tier MBPro/Air gets retina treatment is when SSD will also phase itself into mainstream. Apple can maximize profit by moving volume. The more volume they move, the more control they have on cost, and thus profit.

 

[alphaod]

What are you filling up your drives with?

Porn on the go.

 

[keviikev]

Technology is going toward streaming and cloud. 2 TB is overkill. I have 256GB with over 100GB free. I store stuff on a 2TB drive got for $70 on black Friday and backup on icloud.

 

[thekev]

Are you saying you wouldn't pay $2k for a hard drive?

It's usually worse at the higher capacities. They could always grant an option for 2 separate drives with the stick ssd configuration. Of course I'm not sure how they'd implement it. Would they go Raid 0, concatenated, or show them as two single volumes? They could always do a smaller one for the system and applications with a larger storage volume. You could run into a bit of bandwidth constraint as notebooks have limited pci lanes and a number of these are allocated to their 2x thunderbolt port and hdmi connection on the rMBP. I'd have to look up the total there.

 

[Bwa]

OWC has a 960 GB SSD for $1130. I've been thinking about upgrading my 15" to one or two of these. I currently have a 512 + 256 and I am constantly running out of space. I'll definitely have a 2 tb SSD laptop within 16 months.

I travel a lot and have a lot of data that I require for my work and I'm done with HDDs in my laptops--the vibrations and delicate nature of them really sucks.

 

[EwanMcTeagle]

OWC has a 960 GB SSD for $1130. I've been thinking about upgrading my 15" to one or two of these. I currently have a 512 + 256 and I am constantly running out of space. I'll definitely have a 2 tb SSD laptop within 16 months.

I travel a lot and have a lot of data that I require for my work and I'm done with HDDs in my laptops--the vibrations and delicate nature of them really sucks.

Well considering the fact that Apple doesn't give away storage space too generously I don't think we'll see 2TBs anytime soon. Before the time comes for MBPs to come equipped with 2TB HDDs the SSDs will have overtaken the scene as preceeding speakers have pointed out. And I think at least 5 years will pass until we get 2TB SSDs in Macbooks. If we ever do since Apple is pushing iCloud so much – they can always say „you’ll do fine with the standard 256GB, just use iCloud with it“. And that’s fine and true, but I want to choose the way I do/store/backup things. Just the way I am. Plus still there are places with no Internet connection.
On the sidenote: as to be expected the discussion has turned into "who needs 2TBs in a laptop" debate. This is familiar to "who still needs DVD" case we’ve seen☺
And as usual it all varies depending on the user. I for example don't need the 750GB I have in the 13" MBP at the moment, thus I will be swapping it with a 256GB SSD which is now in my 15". I use the 13" for lighter stuff and 256GB will do me just fine even with some indesign, photoshop once in a while. And although I don't need the 13" to store all my media, I would like to have some favourite music albums on it. On the other hand the 15" which now has 120 + 256 SSDs is definitely not enough in terms of storage. Because it's my new desktop I need all the storage space I can get - don't have a Time Capsule yet so the laptop will have to hold all my media - and I can't do that with a little over 300GB.
Thus, as always, it all depends on one's needs and usage. I like to have a separate desktop and laptop/mobile computers. That's the way I've pretty much always done things. It also forces me to have backups/doubles of my most important stuff - if I work on sth on a desktop then I copy my work to the laptop so I have the most recent version and vice versa. Doing it manually gives me peace of mind that it's all up to date. Besides I have my most important documents, projects on a pendrive.

 

[mjn298]

Apparently some engineers don't think that huge-capacity SSDs will ever be affordable unless performance is heavily compromised

http://www.techpowerup.com/160877/Future-of-SSDs-Not-So-Solid-Research.html

 

[ohbrilliance]

And I think at least 5 years will pass until we get 2TB SSDs in Macbooks.

I'd give it 3 years. Looking at the history of the MBA, SSD space has doubled every 18 months (from 64GB to 512GB in 4.5 years). Following that trend, it could be expected that MBA's will have a 2TB BTO option in three years, and MBPs sooner than that.

 

[noodile]

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-SpinP...=UTF8&qid=1345182352&sr=8-2&keywords=1+tb+2.5


^ 1TB HDD. get 2 of them. one in a data doubler, and one instead of your regular HDD, and there you have a 2TB MBP

 

[JayMBP]

Unless SSD drops a LOT further, I don't see Apple putting 2TB any time soon. At 1TB, I think we hit the point of negative return. People who would need more than 1TB actually needs a lot more than 1TB or even 2TB. SSD simply doesn't make much sense.

Before my rMBP, I had a 17" MBP and a 11" MBA. Each of them only has 128GB of SSD (the 17 had a 750GB data doubler) but I never really exceed even 100GB. And that's because I almost never keep anything big in the SSD.

My lifetime collection of files is about 13TB (from 1993 and growing faster than ever thanks to HD video/pics) stored on a 24bay file server that sleeps probably 95% of the time and a Promise R4 8TB that keeps most of the files I use often.

Would it be nice to swap all my file server's HDD to SSD? Sure, I guess. But I doubt it would offer a much better experience since the bottleneck is actually connectivity (GigE LAN, ISP limiting traffic on mbps connections... etc)

 

[tillsbury]

Are you saying you wouldn't pay $2k for a hard drive?

First hard drive I sold was 6000 GBP. Mind you, that was 5Mb...

 

[phillip.hall]

No, laptops can take upto 12.5mm drives.

Some laptops only take upto 9.5mm or 9.7mm drives.

Some laptops only take upto 7.5mm drives.

Finally, laptops don't take 12V drives like enterprise.

I'm sorry but this is 100% wrong. I can GUARANTEE that a 12.5mm drive fits in a MacBook Pro (non-retina). I am right now running a 12.5mm drive in the standard drive bay and a 9.5mm via an OptiBay.

BTW... 15mm drives will fit inside the standard HD bay of a MacBook Pro but are too thick to allow the bottom cover to close properly. It will bulge out. Also, because of the keyboard depth, the max drive height for the OptiBay (optical drive HD expansion) is only 9.5mm. So... 12.5mm MAX for the standard HD bay and 9.5mm MAX for the optical drive bay.

 

[cube]

I'm sorry but this is 100% wrong. I can GUARANTEE that a 12.5mm drive fits in a MacBook Pro (non-retina). I am right now running a 12.5mm drive in the standard drive bay and a 9.5mm via an OptiBay.

BTW... 15mm drives will fit inside the standard HD bay of a MacBook Pro but are too thick to allow the bottom cover to close properly. It will bulge out. Also, because of the keyboard depth, the max drive height for the OptiBay (optical drive HD expansion) is only 9.5mm. So... 12.5mm MAX for the standard HD bay and 9.5mm MAX for the optical drive bay.

Read what I wrote. I said 12.5mm drives fit.