Apple Announces Redesigned Mac Mini With M4 and M4 Pro Chips

superczar said:
Just one point , more semantics than anything else.
A 40gbps enclosure is expected to give a theoretical 5 MB/s (bits vs bytes)
In reality , you can expect 3-4 due to overheads so I presume you are getting 3.5GB/s and not 3.5gbps.

With laptops, no easy way really.
Tiny 2230 enclosures are cheap now but they max out at 800-900 MB/s and also slow down if doing sustained writes.

Having said that, with both phones and laptops, I shifted to icloud long ago and just leave the optimize storage option on.
That way, something like even 128 on phones or 256 on laptops has been more than perfectly fine for me while continuing to retaining access to all my data whenevr needed.

Of course, this won’t work if your use case involves, for example, handling lots of large video files on the go.
But for the majority of scenarios, this does work very well
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Thunderbolt + samsung external
 
superczar said:
Just one point , more semantics than anything else.
A 40gbps enclosure is expected to give a theoretical 5 MB/s (bits vs bytes)
In reality , you can expect 3-4 due to overheads so I presume you are getting 3.5GB/s and not 3.5gbps.

With laptops, no easy way really.
Tiny 2230 enclosures are cheap now but they max out at 800-900 MB/s and also slow down if doing sustained writes.

Having said that, with both phones and laptops, I shifted to icloud long ago and just leave the optimize storage option on.
That way, something like even 128 on phones or 256 on laptops has been more than perfectly fine for me while continuing to retaining access to all my data whenevr needed.

Of course, this won’t work if your use case involves, for example, handling lots of large video files on the go.
But for the majority of scenarios, this does work very well
Click to expand...
Yeah dont want to pay apple. Have 1tb one drive but even that is too much hassle. SD card wont work well?
 
Party Monger said:
Yeah dont want to pay apple. Have 1tb one drive but even that is too much hassle. SD card wont work well?
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SD card will be slow and unreliable..
There is nothing wring apple’s cloud plans though.. The pricing is at par (in some cases cheaper) than google and it integrates very well with the rest of the system natively in the classic Apple way.
As a user, you don’t need to anything extra except making sure the optimize local storage flag is turned on
 
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