We'd leave you to decide between Spotify and Apple Music, but the two music streaming services offer a standard individual plan for $9.99/month. But, it's often a good choice if you only need a large space to save important files at minimal cost.īut, with the slew of streaming services, free and paid, available to cater to different user tastes and needs, all you need is a stable internet connection and perhaps a token in subscription fees, and you can stream your favorite songs, movies, or movie series, within seconds.Ĭheck our guide on some of the best music streaming services for audiophiles. While HDDs are cheaper than SSDs, they're relatively slower to work with. You can get 8TB of storage space with an external HDD that costs less than $200.
On the other hand, you could pick up a 3TB external SSD for less than $400.Īnd if speed is not your utmost priority, you can also consider getting an external HDD. On the one hand, paying for 4TB of internal SSD bumps up the price of the MacBook Pro by a whopping $1000 for 8TB, you have to pay an extra $2,200. You'll get the equivalent in storage space while saving more than half the cost. A good example is the Samsung 980 Pro 1TB SSD. Alternatively, you could pick up a 1TB external SSD that costs less than $200. That could be expensive for storage you may never really exhaust. And reliable too.Īt the point of purchase, customizing a 16-inch MacBook Pro with additional 1TB SSD storage costs $400. You'll find that these are actually cheaper.
Samsung is a 1st tier brand, but the X5 is considerably more expensive than the T7.Before purchasing a Mac with a much higher internal SSD, consider available external storage options.
OTOH, if you're already getting near-Gigabyte/s speeds on USB-C, it usually doesn't matter unless you're doing video production or something like that.īTW, you can get the Samsung X5 which is also Thunderbolt. However, they're talking about Thunderbolt enclosures which are potentially faster. Orico, OWC, and Sabrent are not high end brands. Many of these threads are from several months ago, don't know if any Apple updates have improved that or if it's just an issue with the new hardware that cannot be fixed with software. I read a lot about Orico and OWC, they are probably the 2 most often recommended brands in the Mac discussions I've been reading.Īn interesting thing I keep coming across, in many of these threads people are also reporting that their M1 Mac Mini has slower Thunderbolt (I think USB too) performance than their other Macs. I have seen a lot of people mention the Samsung T7, however their speeds tend to be almost half of what others report with their self built enclosures from higher end brands like Orico, OWC, Sabrent might have been another.
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