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Macbook air running out of space.
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<blockquote data-quote="krs" data-source="post: 1862572" data-attributes="member: 67742"><p>Yes - but what the reply was about were constraints relating to the macOS itself, upgradebility and internet recovery.</p><p>In the last umpteen years I never heard of a drive itself creating these constraints.</p><p>The proprietary connector is just a mechanical interface arrangement to match the connector on the motherboard - or at least it should be.</p><p>Maybe Apple is playing games trying to force people to buy their drives.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Now you have me confused about the space - this whole thread was about your MacBok Air running out of space so I thought you were replacing the existing internal drive with a larger one.</p><p>Without me going through the thread again, can you just summarize briefly what you started with and what you want to end up with.</p><p></p><p>Like Ian said, you need a lot more than 15 or 20 GB of free space for the macOS to run smoothly.</p><p></p><p>I have a 500GB drive in my Mac with about 100GB free.</p><p>When my free space dropped to 80GB, I decided to upgrade the drive to a 1TB drive.</p><p>I think when you go to the trouble to upgrade an internal drive it makes sense to replace it with a drive of at least the double capacity of the existing one.</p><p></p><p>PS: I just saw this on the fixit site:</p><p></p><p></p><p>So....my Mini was running El Capitan.</p><p>Boot up and launching of applications was a bit slow - so if I haddecided to upgrade to an expensive SSD to speed things up (and stayed on El Capitan), it would not have worked????</p><p>Has anybody tried to do that and can confirm that this is actually true?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="krs, post: 1862572, member: 67742"] Yes - but what the reply was about were constraints relating to the macOS itself, upgradebility and internet recovery. In the last umpteen years I never heard of a drive itself creating these constraints. The proprietary connector is just a mechanical interface arrangement to match the connector on the motherboard - or at least it should be. Maybe Apple is playing games trying to force people to buy their drives. Now you have me confused about the space - this whole thread was about your MacBok Air running out of space so I thought you were replacing the existing internal drive with a larger one. Without me going through the thread again, can you just summarize briefly what you started with and what you want to end up with. Like Ian said, you need a lot more than 15 or 20 GB of free space for the macOS to run smoothly. I have a 500GB drive in my Mac with about 100GB free. When my free space dropped to 80GB, I decided to upgrade the drive to a 1TB drive. I think when you go to the trouble to upgrade an internal drive it makes sense to replace it with a drive of at least the double capacity of the existing one. PS: I just saw this on the fixit site: So....my Mini was running El Capitan. Boot up and launching of applications was a bit slow - so if I haddecided to upgrade to an expensive SSD to speed things up (and stayed on El Capitan), it would not have worked???? Has anybody tried to do that and can confirm that this is actually true? [/QUOTE]
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