The rare exception to the collective usage and premise of SSD use in which a much larger SSD is truly needed are for those in video and photography professions that require both the extremely fast speeds of the SSD and the onboard storage for large and or many video and photography files.
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Nobody should consider any notebook a data storage device at any time under any circumstance, rather a data creation, sending, and manipulation device and in the case of a SSD, this is more important for purposes of having sufficient working space on the SSD and reducing SSD ‘bloat’ in which cases someone is wrongly attempting to use the SSD space as a large media storage nexus. Realistically, you should at most coordinate roughly 20 to 25% of your total SSD space to all audio-video personal use media (picture / music / video collections), leaving the remaining amount on an external HD. While the ‘working platform’ premise is also the case with larger internal conventional hard drives of 1TB+, its implementation isn't as critical except in terms of data protection. All collections of media files such as pictures, music, and videos, unless directly needed should be kept off the notebook and on an external hard drive or likewise. The immediate premise of some users can sometimes be “(how to / if) upgrading my SSD” when in fact in nearly all instances another approach is the logical and sensible one that needs to be looked into and exercised.Īny Macbook containing a SSD should be idealized as a ‘working platform’ notebook containing all your applications, documents, and weekly or bi-weekly necessary files. In which, it’s the case of those users with either 128GB, 256GB, or even 512GB of internal SSD space, that have or are running “out of space”, that questions are raised. There have been questions posed and positions taken by many people who are trying to use their Macbook Air or Pro’s solid state drive (SSD) as a mass media storage device, for either pictures, videos, massive music collections or all three combined but this should not be the working premise of a ‘limited’ SSD and its use.
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Solid State Drive usage premise, or the “more space / upgrade SSD” question
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Your Solid State Drive and having enough space inside your Macbook Air & Pro They stopped offering the upgrades to 256GB for the MacBook Air 11.6” model soon after it became widely reported.Īt the time this was written there was a wait of 19 days for the smallest drive, 3 days for the mid-level and shipping time for the largest was listed as “pending”.Upgrading a SSD is 99% of the time a bad idea, not only due to costs, but primarily because people do it for the WRONG reasons. PhotoFast tried this kind of thing before Apple’s lawyers presumably got involved. This is not the first attempt at this kind of upgrade by a third-party vendor. The video below demonstrates how fast the SSD boots the MacBook Air versus other devices. This is proven by the high cost of the OWC upgrade pricing. However, the cost per GB is much higher meaning the drives had to be kept small to keep the price of the MacBook Air reasonable. The MacBook Air boots much faster than typical computers with ordinary spinning optical hard drives. The value of the SSD in the MacBook Air or other notebooks for that mater is speed.
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The drives are called Mercury Aura Pro Express drives and cost $499.99 for the 180GB drive, $579.99 for the 240GB version and a whopping $1,197.99 for the 360GB drive. Other World Computing is offering three upgrade options for both the 11.6” and 13.3” MacBook Air that will bump that capacity to 180GB, 240GB or 360GB for a hefty price. If you have the funds, Other World Computing has a solution for you. Those who’ve purchased a MacBook Air with a 64GB or 128GB drive are especially prone to feeling the storage limit squeeze. The MacBook Air, which debuted in October 2010, has a maximum solid state drive capacity of only 256GB.