So I've been struggling with disk space on my M1 macbook air (256G), between android + ios development, work and pixelfed development (incl a 16G database) I would have to delete one to work on the other and it's really frustrating, to the point I want to get a new mbp with at least 1 TB of storage.

Tonight I found multiple logs from php and mysql that were 10GB+ in size, oh gosh. Now I'm not constrained by my workflows and I wish I discovered these huge logs sooner 😅

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Andy Carolan :prami:

@dansup I think it's time Apple makes 512gb the minimum for their Macs.

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Helge Heß

@dansup grandperspectiv.sourceforge.ne

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KungFuDiscoMonkey

@dansup haha, I think every developer has been there at some point. Random files taking up gigs of space. On Mac, I’ve used this to find surprise files at times.

daisydiskapp.com

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infinite love ⴳ

@dansup it's always logs

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Lukas

@dansup tbh I think that 256 is too small for any laptop that doesn’t do just browsing and office works. And an M1 is definitely too overpowered for that, so the 256GB option doesn’t make any sense

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Riley S. Faelan

@dansup: FWIW, modern USB C is fast enough that a fairly cheap external USB 3 stick can serve as an effective extension of a Macbook's storage capacity. (It can also do Thunderbolt, but external Thunderbolt storage devices of good capacity are currently so expensive that upgrading the laptop actually makes sense.)

I do development on a similar model to yours, and the main thing that I sometimes feel I should upgrade it for is, 8GiB of RAM is getting a bit small. When I'll upgrade, I'll put most of my moneypoints into more RAM, not more storage.

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Walter Tross

@dansup
du -hd1 2> /dev/null | sort -h

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