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lamontcg on Nov 2, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive ...

Yeah but I don't need a 4TB SSD right now. I barely need a 2TB.

magicalhippo on Nov 3, 2021 | [–]

At least that extra free space will ensure you have optimal speed (SSD's slow down writes when they close to capacity) and prolong the lifetime of the drive (less write cycles per cell), so it's not for nothing.

sroussey on Nov 3, 2021 | [–]

I have 2TB of data but use a 1 TB drive and let the OS leave a bunch of files in the cloud, the one I don’t use.

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