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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1923086" data-attributes="member: 396914">I guess it's a philosophical difference. I don't like large drives. In one big drive, if you load it up you have all of your eggs in one basket. If you partition it down, you still have all the eggs in one basket, even if in different compartments of the basket. I prefer smaller drives, dedicated to a purpose, with backups for what is really important to me. Hence, the ten currently attached drives, of which the largest is 4TB, my one experiment with large storage. It is a RAID array, so I don't think the risk of the size is horrible. The rest of the drives are between 1 and 2 TB, and are, as I said, dedicated to a purpose. Two hold my photo files, backing each other up as well as the third copy on the RAID array. Two hold my music/video files, backing each other up. Two are dedicated backup drives, one TM and one CCC. I also have another acting as a partial backup using Chronosync to backup just some of the internal. The rest are just handy storage. When I travel I take the backups. Each is about the size of a deck of cards, powered by the USB-c/TB port, so they are easy to travel with. I have had the bad experience of having an internal drive fail on the same day my backup drive failed. Ended up losing 8000 pictures I cannot replace. Now I have four copies of every image between the internal, backups and NAS storage. Yep, paranoid.So, I don't want a huge internal storage area either. My current MBP has 1TB, and is about 40% used. If it gets over 50%, I look for what I can remove to get it below 50%. That is good for the storage and lengthens the life expectancy of the whole system. It's what suits me best. Your needs may well be totally different, and that's ok. There is no single solution.</blockquote>

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