An additional £1,000 for a 2TB drive is crazy though, rapidly takes the new Mac mini from a good price to a nuts price

SloopJon 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I happily booted and ran an Intel Mac mini using a 4TB drive in a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure, and I do the same for an M4 Max Mac Studio using an 8TB drive in a USB4v2 enclosure (OWC Express 1M2 80G).

You'll just have to be careful to match the enclosure to the ports on the system. The base-model M6 Mac mini still uses Thunderbolt 4, so a USB4v2 enclosure would be wasted.

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criddell 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Considering hard drives were $10k / GB in the Mac SE/30 days, that feels like a bargain too.

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aurmc an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Sure, yes, compared to the prices of storage 35 years ago, it's a bargain.

Compared to the prices of storage today, when people are presumably buying the product, it's actually a bad price.

	▲	criddell an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, but this thread started with somebody pointing out that these computer prices are in line with Mac SE/30 prices. I'm just carrying that over to cover storage and it's even more amazing how much we get for so little money.

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inigyou 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But software also fit in 640kB instead of 640GB.

	▲	bigfishrunning 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It still can, but until very recently the motivation for keeping software small wasn't there. I'm still hoping the tide is coming in.