Ask HN: Mac (book/mini) owners, doesn't soldered storage bother you?

Hello,

This is a genuine question, since my wife is looking to replace her old MBP and she wants to stick with MacOS.

Basically, the inability to replace the storage bothers me for 2 reasons: 1. if I have to send it for repairs I send my data too - is encryption (strong) enough? 2. I never trusted or bought a used hard drive, so buying a used MBP would mean that. Is it that reliable?

Thank you in advance.

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wmf 6y ago ↗

A lot of Apple's decisions bother me but if I don't have a choice then I don't have a choice.

SSDs are very reliable so I wouldn't worry about used Macs.

huslage 6y ago ↗

Nope. I can plug in an external SSD. Their internal storage has been reliable for ages and MacOS filesystem encryption is really good.