Indeed. Realistically if anything, one should consider the “physical world” hassles with permanent external storage arguably more than performance ones:
• Risk of accidental unplugging.
• Contacts may become wonky over time → see above.
• The need to sacrifice a port (or the portion of one in the case of a dongle).
• Enclosures tend to have annoying IO lights.
• Takes a bit of space.
All of these can be solved, especially when dealing with a desktop that stays in place. Paradoxically, there was never a better time to be modest with internal storage.
Although I will say:
> photos stored exclusively on icloud and not on your computer
Over my dead body :) If there’s one thing I’ll always happily carve out SSD space for, it’s local copies of my photo library!
• Risk of accidental unplugging.
• Contacts may become wonky over time → see above.
• The need to sacrifice a port (or the portion of one in the case of a dongle).
• Enclosures tend to have annoying IO lights.
• Takes a bit of space.
All of these can be solved, especially when dealing with a desktop that stays in place. Paradoxically, there was never a better time to be modest with internal storage.
Although I will say:
> photos stored exclusively on icloud and not on your computer
Over my dead body :) If there’s one thing I’ll always happily carve out SSD space for, it’s local copies of my photo library!