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Following the introduction of the Apple silicon Mac Pro, Apple today added SSD upgrade kits to its online store. The kits offer 2TB, 4TB, and 8TB of storage space for $1,000, $1,600, and $2,800, respectively.

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The kits feature two 1TB SSDs, two 2TB SSDs, or two 8TB SSDs, and replace the existing internal SSD storage of the Mac Pro.

The hardware is compatible only with the new 2023 Mac Pro machines that use Apple's M2 Ultra chips.

The kits can be ordered starting today, with delivery dates starting on June 9.

Article Link: New Mac Pro Features Upgradeable SSD, Apple Selling 2TB, 4TB, and 8TB SSD Kits
 
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Those better be magical with those prices. 3rd party offerings should be less expensive. At least there are upgrades of some sort available. Now we just need expandable RAM (it could work but the engineering is not simple).

People who need more storage could also just put in PCIe cards and install as many nvme drives as will fit.
 
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Lol, insane pricing. What’s the point of modularity when you’re still paying Apple tax on components? Wonder if there will be third party solutions at some point.

Modularity, to Apple, means building the machine to meet your exact needs after the fact, not being able to use cheap parts instead of Apple’s modules. We want stuff for cheap, Apple just wants your money.
 
Can anyone price out anything comparable on the PC side? To me it looks like the actual intended audience can do things simply not possible on other workstations….
 
Proprietary SSD????? Am I seeing thiss correctly? Get Bent
Looks like - just as with the Intel Mac Pro - you can add PCIe-to-M.2 adapters or even a pair of old fangled spinning rust drives to this thing & treat the proprietary SSD as a MacOS copy-protection dongle.
 
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Following the introduction of the Apple silicon Mac Pro, Apple today added SSD upgrade kits to its online store. The kits offer 2TB, 4TB, and 8TB of storage space for $1,000, $1,600, and $2,800, respectively.

mac-pro-ssd.jpg

The kits feature two 1TB SSDs, two 2TB SSDs, or two 8TB SSDs, and replace the existing internal SSD storage of the Mac Pro.

The hardware is compatible only with the new 2023 Mac Pro machines that use Apple's M2 Ultra chips.

The kits can be ordered starting today, with delivery dates starting on June 9.

Article Link: New Mac Pro Features Upgradeable SSD, Apple Selling 2TB, 4TB, and 8TB SSD Kits
$2,800 for the 8TB but it's only $2,200 when upgradeing at BTO so they are giving you $600 for the base 1TB when buying at BTO time.

but still even 2TB at $1000 is really bad when you can an 8TB m.2 one for only $1K
 
This is truly Apple's dream come true: sell proprietary SSDs that are only compatible with 1 single proprietary computer which cannot use any other kind of storage! But also increase the price of the computer in the meantime, of course.
 
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