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> My computer has a 512GB SSD. I could devote 10GB to indexes of libraries and my own code without blinking

Mine has 128GB, less than 10GB free.

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A 512GB ssd costs somewhere around £100.

That puts the cost of 10GB at about £2.

Not really willing to change the SSD that came with my 2015 Mac.

That's for 2.5" SATA SSDs. Some people have embedded PCIe drives. And on some macs they are soldered. Regardless, reserving 10GB for offline help isn't that bad.

AFAIK the point about Macs is untrue.

While the RAM in many Macs is soldered into the motherboard, SSDs are not (they are often proprietary, though).

These days they're mostly (possibly always) flash on the motherboard. Afaik, chances are the only way you'll find a removable SSD in a Mac is if its stock spinning-platter drive was replaced.

That's only true for the MacBook, which isn't a suitable development machine anyway. In both the current MacBook Pro and MacBook Air the storage is a PCIe SSD.

I said some Macs (thinking about the 12" retina) but I think that's where they are moving.

Assuming you're using a MacBook Pro, it's going to cost at least $300 to upgrade to the 512GB SSD. Compared with £100 = $140 for a 2.5" SSD.

Given I don't need that extra storage, the cost for 10GB to me would be $300. Ouch.

Maybe you should opt for a more serviceable notebook, then?

Rolls eyes. Thanks for the snark - the many iOS and Mac developers on HN

someone using apples really should complain about prices though. its their choice to pay thrice of the market price.

I wasn't being snarky, really. I was suggesting that if upgradeability is in your list of priorities, then you would be better off with another notebook rather than a Macbook.

Well, you bought into Apple's system. They almost always overcharge for hardware.

One alternative is a Nifty MiniDrive for ~$30 + a MicroSD card. I put m an extra 128 GB in my rMBP that way.

http://minidrive.bynifty.com/

Did you work as developer and make money with your machine?

Just wait for this summer, 3d nand is shaking things up in ssd world. Platter drives might even become obsolete by next year.

Assuming you use all of the 512GB, if I wasn't needing to use the 10GB free then the 10GB costs $100.

And you are a developer or a consumer?

Developer. I don't care about space because most of my stuff are cloud-based.

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