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> That's 108 GB/year. HDD/SSDs are getting bigger than that every year.

Cries in MacBook Pro

Outboard TB 3/4 storage only seems expensive until you price it against Apple's native storage. Is it slower? Of course! Is it fast enough? Probably.

I recently moved my macOS installation to an external Thunderbolt drive - it's faster than the internal SSD.

Considering storage is a wasting asset and what Apple charges, this makes perfect sense to me.

The funny thing is Apple even have a support article on how to do this (and actually say in it "may improve your performance") I literally followed it step by step and it was very easy and had no issues.

Can you share the Thunderbolt drive you got?

https://glyphtech.com/products/atom-pro?variant=321211999191...

Shipped to the UK for me added a bit to the overall price with shipping and import duty but it was still better value for money and hugely reliable brand than anything I could have bought domestically.

It's Windows only so it won't run on your Mac anyway :-)

PerfectMemory is only available on Windows at the moment.

https://Rewind.ai is the macOS equivalent

Except that Rewind uses chatGPT whereas this runs entirely locally. I would like to note though that Anonymous Analytics are enabled as well as auto-updates, both of which I disabled for privacy reasons. Encryption is also disabled by default. I just blocked everything with my firewall for peace of mind :)

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