Randy,
Thanks for your input.
Jay
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On Jan 17, 2024, at 11:17 PM, Randy B. Singer <randy@...> wrote:
On Jan 17, 2024, at 7:22 AM, Jay Abraham <jaygroups@...> wrote:
Can you get the same benefit from additional SSD by buying an external SSD to pair with a pre-configured machine? Thinking of buying a pre-configured machine from Costco which has better prices than Apple?
Maybe. The problem is that once every register on your SSD has been filled once (regardless of whether much of it has been marked for erasing and re-use), your SSD will begin to noticably slow down. Since your Mac uses your internal (boot) drive for invisible scratch space, temp files, meta data, databases, etc., your internal drive¡¯s free space gets used even if you meticulously use an external to offload stuff too. If your internal drive is too small, it is going to fill up eventually even if you don¡¯t actually store much on it.
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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
Essential But Hard To Find Macintosh Software and Advice
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