JFC $400 USD to get 1TB of storage.

CM Harrington

For that you can get an 4TB MVNe.

Jack Brewster

@octothorpe Except the OS limits where you can store some data to onboard only.

CM Harrington

@jackbrewster They're doing that now??

I hate this timeline.

feld

@octothorpe just buy the 4TB NVME, get a 20gbit USB 4.0 adapter, and plug it in and make it your boot drive.

Tom Brand

@octothorpe BUT IS IT SAFE?

CM Harrington

@feld TBH, that's what I do now, although it's a legit Thunderbolt enclosure…

and it kinda sucks.

Something happened in modern versions of MacOS where having a boot disk that isn't the internal one causes all sorts of weirdness. And… I'm not even sure you can *do* that on some of the newer hardware.

CM Harrington

@Eggfreckles There may be a herpe or two, NGL.

feld

@octothorpe you can, my friend @SlicerDicer just did it without issues

though the specific model he used caused problems because there was ONE specific USB-C port that does not support being used as a boot drive and it wasn't obvious. He had to dig through hardware docs to find it as the source of the problem haha... thanks Tim Apple... :woz:

CM Harrington

@feld @SlicerDicer It just works!