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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1548197" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>HD size - none of us can answer that for you. </p><p>I have around 12 TB of total storage here, everything with 2 and in some cases 3 backups - so, about 8-9 TB of it used </p><p>When I checked my wife's computer yesterday, she has used only 45 GB space on her computer - that's her total over a 6 year period.</p><p></p><p>How much space is used on your current computer - that's your best indicator.</p><p></p><p>And if you have not budgeted for an external drive to backup your data at the same time as you buy the new computer - imho - get that before you pay for any upgrades.</p><p></p><p>And... when you buy an external drive for additional primary storage - make sure you buy 2 so you can back that one up.</p><p></p><p>Aside from all that - you can't upgrade the CPU later on. At least OWC (maybe others, have not looked) does make upgrades for the flash storage in the MBAa</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1548197, member: 24160"] HD size - none of us can answer that for you. I have around 12 TB of total storage here, everything with 2 and in some cases 3 backups - so, about 8-9 TB of it used When I checked my wife's computer yesterday, she has used only 45 GB space on her computer - that's her total over a 6 year period. How much space is used on your current computer - that's your best indicator. And if you have not budgeted for an external drive to backup your data at the same time as you buy the new computer - imho - get that before you pay for any upgrades. And... when you buy an external drive for additional primary storage - make sure you buy 2 so you can back that one up. Aside from all that - you can't upgrade the CPU later on. At least OWC (maybe others, have not looked) does make upgrades for the flash storage in the MBAa [/QUOTE]
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