Does it make any sense to pay this much for an SSD?

Does it make any sense to pay this much for an SSD?

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For example, I could buy a 500GB external SSD for half the price that Apple is charging for a 256GB expansion.

Is there any good reason to buy the expansion from Apple rather than the external?

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it might be twice the price but it's likely over 5x as fast

You're paying for quality materials and craftsmanship

>macshit
Found your problem.

No. Even hardcore iSheeps use external drive or NAS to combat Apple's jewery

The mac mini has user upgradable RAM, but the CPU and SSD is soldered down, so nothing you can do to replace it.

Though it does have thunderbolt, so an external thunderbolt enclosure is an option, as well as 10gbps ethernet upgrade for 10gbps NAS connection.

You have options.

why so?

Apple uses NVMe SSDs.

shitty bait

1TB intel nvme SSD are literally $100 right now (QLC), and will be 5x faster than those SATA SSD.

Apple's prices never reflect reality ever. Their hardware has been astronomically priced for 20yrs we all know this

>soldered on SLC Nand NVME
And you compare it to shitty QLC and SATA?
Apples SSD's are good for at least 4GB/s

SX8200 Pro does 3500/3500 in 1TB as TLC for $150. It literally doesn't matter because they're bottlenecked by PCI-E 3.0 4x (4gb/s limit).

iTODDLERS BTFO

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You can build a matching spec nuc to the lowest spec mac mini for pretty much half the price, im talking gen 8 i3, 8gb ram, 256gb ssd.

Yes you are losing out on ports, and i think airdrop doesnt work with hackintosh builds, and you have to use wired ethernet, but HALF THE FUCKING PRICE. HALF!

To be honest, LTT have shown the best way to use these things, and it's not for typical home users any more. Local storage literally does not matter you are "supposed" to get the 10 gigabit model and feed all your data from the petabyte SSD only storage array over your ridiculously fast network.

Yes, because if you want to use macOS that's the only way.

>inb4 hackinshit

NVMe isnt that much more expensive, does apple have some kind of special patented version or something?

>muh pajeetOS

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>apple tax 300%

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All big tech companies are pajeet, what's your point?

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>cant read but must reply