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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1941160" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Poppi, there are many differences in the new Macs that you need to know about. </p><p></p><p>1. SSD's in general should not be loaded much beyond about 60%. You said your old system has 386GB, which is already 75% of a 512GB drive. Add on the 65GB of photos you mentioned you would like on the internal and you are at 451GB or 88%. That is way over the suggested limit. So, you have two alternatives: 1) squeeze that total down to about 256 GB, or 2) move up to a 1TB internal drive. Your option, your call. I'd go for the 1TB myself, but it's acceptable either way.</p><p></p><p>2. TM now demands to be on a drive formatted APFS (the new Apple standard) and to be the ONLY thing on the drive. So that 4TB drive that shares with your pictures can't share any more. And if it's not APFS format, it will be reformatted, with everything erased on it in the process. There are workarounds to allow sharing in APFS and TM, fairly easy to do, but will require you to move the pictures off that drive to make the changes (along with anything NOT in the TM backup). You will need to do that anyway if it's not APFS now. If you pick the 512GB Storage option, you'll have to have another external drive fo do the setup on the 4TB. If you go with 1TB internally, and if what is on the external besides the TM backup is less than about 200GB or so, you could temporarily use the internal storage to hold it until the external is ready and then move it to the external and free up the spacce on internal. Consider this: 1 and 2 tb external drives are very cheap these days. What I would suggest is getting one for TM and only TM. Given your current storage use, a 1 TB should be sufficient. (The backup should be about twice as large as the data being backed up, so twice 450GB, which rolls up to 1TB.) A great side benefit of this approach is that if you get a big drive internally, TM will back up your pictures to that dedicated TM drive for you and the 4TB drive can be used for whatever you want/need, like a second backup. I've lost pictures before when two drives failed on the same day, so I now have four copies of all my pictures. Yes, I'm paranoid.</p><p></p><p>3. Dave has given you a breakdown on what happened to iTunes. "Apple Music" and "Music" are two different things but tied together. If you sign up for "Apple Music" as a service it will monitor your music in the library for Music for licensing as required by law. As I said, I have heard that ripped tracks disappeared from Music (the app) because Apple Music didn't see how it had been licensed (bought) by the user. Again, Ii have no details, but it's really easy to conflate "iTunes Match," "Music," and "Apple Music," so read very carefully.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1941160, member: 396914"] Poppi, there are many differences in the new Macs that you need to know about. 1. SSD's in general should not be loaded much beyond about 60%. You said your old system has 386GB, which is already 75% of a 512GB drive. Add on the 65GB of photos you mentioned you would like on the internal and you are at 451GB or 88%. That is way over the suggested limit. So, you have two alternatives: 1) squeeze that total down to about 256 GB, or 2) move up to a 1TB internal drive. Your option, your call. I'd go for the 1TB myself, but it's acceptable either way. 2. TM now demands to be on a drive formatted APFS (the new Apple standard) and to be the ONLY thing on the drive. So that 4TB drive that shares with your pictures can't share any more. And if it's not APFS format, it will be reformatted, with everything erased on it in the process. There are workarounds to allow sharing in APFS and TM, fairly easy to do, but will require you to move the pictures off that drive to make the changes (along with anything NOT in the TM backup). You will need to do that anyway if it's not APFS now. If you pick the 512GB Storage option, you'll have to have another external drive fo do the setup on the 4TB. If you go with 1TB internally, and if what is on the external besides the TM backup is less than about 200GB or so, you could temporarily use the internal storage to hold it until the external is ready and then move it to the external and free up the spacce on internal. Consider this: 1 and 2 tb external drives are very cheap these days. What I would suggest is getting one for TM and only TM. Given your current storage use, a 1 TB should be sufficient. (The backup should be about twice as large as the data being backed up, so twice 450GB, which rolls up to 1TB.) A great side benefit of this approach is that if you get a big drive internally, TM will back up your pictures to that dedicated TM drive for you and the 4TB drive can be used for whatever you want/need, like a second backup. I've lost pictures before when two drives failed on the same day, so I now have four copies of all my pictures. Yes, I'm paranoid. 3. Dave has given you a breakdown on what happened to iTunes. "Apple Music" and "Music" are two different things but tied together. If you sign up for "Apple Music" as a service it will monitor your music in the library for Music for licensing as required by law. As I said, I have heard that ripped tracks disappeared from Music (the app) because Apple Music didn't see how it had been licensed (bought) by the user. Again, Ii have no details, but it's really easy to conflate "iTunes Match," "Music," and "Apple Music," so read very carefully. [/QUOTE]
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