One extremely difficult problem with a single HUGE volume is that backups are a huge pain.
Backblaze is great, but if you need a bootable backup *now* it isn’t as helpful.
Yeah; I had to get a replacement Mac last month and ended up getting one 20GB "essentials" zip from Backblaze so I could carry on working while a much larger downloaded completed. I should probably look into a NAS that can handle Time Machine.
That would be really useful – thank you! It's not something I want to think about to be honest, so I'd rather splash out and buy a box that gives me 5 years of worry-free life 😅 First hit on Google was a MacWorld article recommending this:
I have the older version of this
synology.com/en-us/products…
Upgradable ram, runs Plex if that’s your thing, I have it running Docker containers for Unifi Video, Pi-hole, and Homebridge.
The software is really super useful.
I have one of the smaller synologys at work and every few months Time Machine tells me it needs data consistency check, which fails. Aside from that, they’re really easy to use and manage.
I think this is just Time Machine being wonky. Not unique to Synology, but perhaps over wifi. FWIW I have gotten this too, but mostly has been solid (across 4 machines)
Yes that is my understanding too - the more I researched it the more I found people having the same issue with any networked Time Machine. For large video file archives I don’t see the benefit in TM so synology is perfect for me.
Lazy tweet to Synology user: can you get an SSD only solution? I’d like a device with just m2 ssd drives. I can’t find anything like that on their site. I find their site to be hard to navigate though.
Come on. If you clean it regularly it doesn't take up that much. I do it often. I have a 256 GB SSD. I also moved the Derived Data path to an external SSD.
If I “clean it regularly” I have to wait for it to re-do the “preparing debugger” support when I reconnect a device for which I don’t have the necessary support files. I test regularly on several different devices / OS combinations.
I don't mean delete all :) I mean delete iOS 12.9, 13.0, 13.1 support files when 13.2 is on your device. But I also don't test on a ton of devices. I'm an autolayout wizard :)
In the early days, yes. Got it to run and we're excited about it but we didn't have the bandwidth to support Catalyst _and_ iPadOS, and we chose the latter. Catalyst is still very much in our roadmap though
Ug, don't get me started. Also the drives increase in speed as they get larger.
As most compilation is io intensive, faster io (and ram) has noticable impact.
We changed our dev team to 32gb ram. Saw a 30% bump in some cases.
And this tweet isn't event counting the 70gb+ that Catalina takes on HD, Apple should promote the available space on HD instead of the hardware size. 🤦🏻♂️
I’ve been hearing that for years from designers, and regular users, not only storage, but hardware specs. It’s like some for them are unable to see that, for designing, they use programs we developers programmed, same with games and all...
I'm just a fucking gamer who does the occasional Photoshop. I didn't reset my computer for a year thanks to the lack of Windows Rot, and I'm already running out of storage. May God have mercy on my soul.