If you don’t use a standalone camera to shoot, you might be unaware that capacities have grown from 32GB and 64GB to 256GB and 512GB while prices have dropped ridiculously. Older MacBooks have useful SD Card slots.įor Macs with a slot that holds SD cards, you can take advantage of inexpensive, relatively fast, high-capacity cards to extend your internal storage and have an “external” drive that’s just as portable and integral as the one built into your Mac. (SSD modules that work with other computers can be as little as $150 for the same capacity, but those aren’t compatible with Apple’s slot.) Apple But upgrading to 1TB? The price tag is over $400. My wife recently acquired a mid-2014 MacBook Pro with an easily swappable 500GB SSD module.
In recent years, Apple has shifted from Macs that can have internal storage upgraded to higher capacities or from a hard disk drive (HDD) to an SSD-though sometimes with a fair amount of difficulty-to storage that can’t be modified after purchase.Įven on Macs that offer some degree of drive upgradability, you may still feel stung by SSD prices. What if you need more storage space on your Mac, but upgrades are impossible or too expensive, or an externally connected drive won’t do? The SD Card slot found in many older and some newer Macs is worth looking at as an option.
