![]() And those painful lessions forged my habits. And that file share is protected via RAID, nearly real-time backups and then offline backups, because in the old days storage tended to fail when you least could afford it. It might be really old fashioned, but I do pretty much everything I do off a file share. In the case of a notebook, storage that dies with the notebook SoC simply isn't acceptable, because you might have done significant work offline.īut in the case of a workstation, rule #1 applies: never work without a backup.Īnd in fact I keep my workstations pretty near stateless, mostly because I move around between them so much. An extra 1TB of storage over the base model costs $400Ĭlick to expand.I'd like Apple to be permanenty sued for usury until they sell storage at market prices, but of course Apple isn't selling storage, they are selling something much more innovative and distinct. Why do I rail on storage? Because Apple's storage options for the Mac Pro Studio are some of the most comically overpriced SSDs in the history of man. ![]() It's probably great for content consumption, but not creation. ![]() It's yet another consumer grade fashion statement. Is this intended for, like maybe, non-critical prosumer music or podcast production? Because you can do that with literally any computer, Apple even markets that as a use-case for the iPad. Enterprises/businesses need to be able to swap drives like candy. 3D modeling needs storage options, coders need storage options, sciency data and AI workloads all need options for fast easily-replaceable storage. Even an unmonetized YouTube channel needs "as much space for storage expansion as you can possibly afford to put into a box". ![]() I mean, I'm sure it would be a perfectly fine office/email/Facebook computer for your grandma, but this is a workstation in the sense that an iPad Pro is for "professionals". ![]() The fact you can't upgrade/repair/replace storage brings this from "sorta interesting little idea for a workstation" all the way down to "almost completely useless eWaste". ![]()
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