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SSD Storage Above 2TB When?-
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Thats the one I have presently but spending over 1200 dollars for a 4tb ssd based on SATA then also still having an old computer doesn’t appeal
It costs about the same as a 2TB MLC NVMe drive.Thats the one I have presently but spending over 1200 dollars for a 4tb ssd based on SATA then also still having an old computer doesn’t appeal
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Yes I Really need it lol
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Yes I really need it - is that acceptable?hahaha
You will be waiting a long time I think, most windows machines top out at 1TB SSDs even in 2017. However the iMac Pro will be offering up to 4TB ssd.
Maybe a Samsung T5 if you a desperate for more storage. In a very portable package with decent speeds.
Not sure why you need that much SSD storage unless you're shooting 4K. I typically use up to 100GB storage when shooting 4K videos and a 1TB MBP can last me 10 days before I have to transfer to an external.
I suggest getting 2x2TB Samsung T5 for your storage needs. You can use them even when you upgrade to a different machine in the future.
The market has spoken. There are very few you need those
I am also a big fan of the Samsung T5. Great portable drive.
I am also a big fan of the Samsung T5. Great portable drive.
Really?? I’ve Never seen one and i’m Pretty sure I wouldn’t want to lug it about if I did.
The Lenovo all top out at 1TBssd or 2TBhdd.
The dell XP’s tops out at 512gb ssd in the UK, the dell precision range tops out at 1TB ssd, and the latitude at 512gb ssd.
The Razer blade Pro will give me a 2TB ssd in a 17 inch laptop but it’s £4700 and 3pounds heavier.
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Yep even the Razer Blade Pro uses 2x1TB PCIe ssd’s in raid 0, rather than a 2TB ssd.
Dell XPS 15 can be configured to to support a M.2 stick and a 2.5 inch SSD or rotational drive. But, when they are configured this way, the battery is smaller than with M.2 only. Weight is similar to the 2015 15" MBP.
Also, the XPS is designed to user-upgradable. So you can stick in any compatible drives into the system. And swap out the memory for up 32 GB. And it supports an Nvidia GTX 1050. Grrr. Apple!
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As Apple discontinued the cMBP I bought a 15" Acer that is like this in 2015. It is quite light because it does not have an optical drive.
I bought it only with a SATA M.2, so it was missing a proprietary 2.5" cable, which was easy and cheap to get. I added a surplus 2TB hard drive, and upgraded the M.2 to NVMe (thanks to my Thunderbolt PCIe enclosure).
It only has 2 RAM slots, but because it is DDR4, it can be upgraded to 32GiB.
It also has a quad i7 and GTX960M and it cost about half of a top Retina at the time (4K + hard drive and maybe 32GiB was $300 extra but about to be available).
There are over 700 configurations like this in one language ready to buy, but it seems the UK only sees a few dozen (better than the 2 with Polish keyboard).
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Considering the 2tb SSD is a recent excruciatingly expensive (therefore niche) addition to the line I’d imagine even Apple considers what they’d be charging for 4tb to be ludicrous. Maybe in a few years when SSD prices normalise and start to fall again they might double the storage tiers for the same money or something.
Does anyone know if the reason we are not seeing higher capacity offerings has to do with the heat associated with many of the m.2 SSDs and just the higher heats associated with larger sizes play into account? (I've not noticed a big difference in heat vs. capacity, which is why I am asking?) NAND density should theoretically support more than 1-2 TB with the form factors seen with NGFF drives...at least in regards to 3D NAND. Is this a pricing-related, controller-related, heat-related, density-related, or something else-related constraint?
Samsung already released a 4TB 3d nand nvme drive not too long ago so i do think its possible it could arrive soon in the 15 at a high price obviously
Really?!?! I knew they released a 4TB SATA-based EVO, but I did not realize they had released a 4TB m.2 NVMe 9xx SSD!!!
https://9to5mac.com/2017/08/10/macbook-pro-ssd-capacity-samsung-4tb/
have a look at this link - this is why I'm hopeful
Holy crap that is awesome! I hope they do come to the Mac soon for those needing massive high-speed internal storage!
Wow. Wonder what that will cost. The current 2TB 960 Pro is around $1200. So $2500?
I think by March 2018 maybe 2K for 4TB as the additional upgrade price
I would never recommend storing that much of sensitive data locally on a laptop and on a drive that could fail at any given time.
Get your self NAS with 4-6 drives in raid 1. And you can set it up at home, so you can access it from anywhere in the world.
If you lose your laptop or if it’s get stolen. How are you going to get your sensitive data back????
Get your self NAS with 4-6 drives in raid 1. And you can set it up at home, so you can access it from anywhere in the world.
If you lose your laptop or if it’s get stolen. How are you going to get your sensitive data back????