Next MacBook Pro or Ultra with 16TB SSD

[bobt]

Does anyone have a good, somewhat educated guess on the likelihood of a 16TB internal SSD option or something else larger than the 8TB option in the next iteration of the 16" MBP or Ultra?

My current M1 Max from 2021 has the 8TB drive that is about full and I really prefer to not need external drives when on the run and like to maintain to much crap on my main drive (photos and videos).

I'm hoping this might be a thing even though it will be stupidly expensive.

Thoughts?

 

[AdmiralKirk]

If you need 16tb then at that point the most logical solution is a NAS. Both from cost and security/redundancy standpoint. It's not the best solution to keep 16tb of your files on your hand drive if it can be avoided.

 

[dizmonk]

If you need 16tb then at that point the most logical solution is a NAS. Both from cost and security/redundancy standpoint. It's not the best solution to keep 16tb of your files on your hand drive if it can be avoided.

Not to mention the cost....

 

[chars1ub0w]

I have a 4TB M1 Max. And after running out of SSD, I eventually started moving things to a portable Thunderbolt 4 drive and a USB-4 drive. First to leave my 4TB was my Photos library. That eventually made it onto a separate 4TB USB-4 drive. Deleting lots of pictures meant I stayed at around 3TB. Then my iMovie libraries went to another 4TB drive. Got that down to 3.7TB, but it is slowly filing up. So I will have to split my iMovie libraries between two drives soon.
And my 4TB on the M1 Max is down to 3.2TB. But I am carrying two drives around with me. I also have a 8TB SSD for slow Time Machine backups. So I understand your wish for 16TB. I would be happy if I had 8TB on the laptop and only had to carry one extra portable drive.

 

[Pezimak]

You REALLY want to pay Apples tax on 16 terabytes of soldered on storage??... get a NAS, I recently got Greens NVME based NAS, so small and quiet and fast, I have it on ethernet for the iOS devices to back up to, and it is connected over Thunderbolt for my Mac for Time Machine and as an extra storage drive. Whole thing including 4 2TB Western Digital Black drives cost me around £1700, the NAS was on sale at just over 20% off so was around 680, the rest was the price of the drives.... anyway it solves my Time Machine back as I was running out space for that.

My current machine is an M3 Max 14" Pro with 1TB drive.