#2tb ssd for macbook pro archive#
#2tb ssd for macbook pro upgrade#
#2tb ssd for macbook pro portable#
#2tb ssd for macbook pro pro#

#2tb ssd for macbook pro upgrade#

The financial saving would at least cover half the necessary SSD upgrade cost when choosing the specs for a new 16вЂі MBP. IвЂ™m sure this would motivate me to do more of my editing on the road, increasing my overall efficiency when IвЂ™m away from the office. On top of all of that, all images would then be stored on the blazingly fast internal SSD for the laptop making the editing of new images, or old ones from my recent archive, much quicker. Less bulk to carry, less weight to carry, less cables to carry. Essentially doing away with the need for drive #1 and #3. With an 8TB internal drive on my laptop I could easily store all the images from my previous two years of shooting, as well as a primary copy of the images I have just taken on that particular trip.

#2tb ssd for macbook pro pro#

This whole setup is basically derived from the inability to have enough internal storage on my laptop, but with the new late 2019 MacBook Pro 16вЂі, Apple has changed things.

#2tb ssd for macbook pro archive#

While I do have online access to my entire archive via a Drobo 5N2 NAS that runs in my office, if the image is available on drive #3 then itвЂ™s going to be faster to access, particularly if strong internet isnвЂ™t available to connect remotely to my NAS.

Drive #3 is there because in my experience, the images IвЂ™m most likely to be selling, and need in a hurry, are my most recent images.

#2tb ssd for macbook pro portable#

External drive #3 is a higher capacity (4 or 5TB) portable drive, usually a LaCie Rugged RAID, that has a copy of all my images from the past two years.Дrives 1 and 2 are self explanatory, you obviously need a backup of your latest images.

External drive #2 is a backup of external drive #1.

External drive #1 is my on-the-road photo storage for newly acquired images.

Internal 1TB MacBook Pro drive is for applications and general documents, not photo storage.

So yes, the upgrades are expensive, but they arenвЂ™t particularly overpriced and this got me thinkingвЂ¦Д®ver since MacBook Pros moved to SSD storage I have been running the same setup which is as follows when IвЂ™m on the road: The LaCie Rugged Pro 2TB Thunderbolt 3 drive, with a roughly-as-fast NVMe SSD inside it, is $700, or $350/TB. The jump from 4TB to 8TB is $1200 which is also $300/TB.

The 2TB, 4TB and 8TB SSD options in the new MacBook Pro are still not cheap, but at least they are now an option, and when you consider the capacity of them they are on a par, if not cheaper than comparative NVMe external SSDs such as the LaCie Rugged Pro that launched recently.ДЄs you can see from the screenshot, the jump up from 2TB to 4TB is $600 which is $300/TB. Not only can the new 16вЂі models be fitted with up to 64GB of RAM, you can also upgrade the internal SSD to a staggering 8TB capacity! Large internal drive capacities used to be nothing new when good olвЂ™ spinning hard disk drives were the norm many years ago, but with the adoption of solid state drives, price per terabyte increased rapidly and drive sizes took a significant fall.

In fact Apple CEO Tim Cook even acknowledged the pro community in his first tweet about the new models when they launched. More than any other MacBook Pro before it, Apple seems to be offering considerable upgrade possibilities to suit professional users. While the screen size increase is nice to have, it wasnвЂ™t actually the feature of the new model that most caught my attention. Apple recently launched a new 16-inch MacBook Pro that will replace the old 15-inch models and despite the screen size increase, the physical size difference between old and new models is relatively small, thanks to a decreased bezel size on the 16вЂі model.