11-30-2009, 10:15 AM
Do you absolutely need all those hundreds of GBs of photographs stored on the boot drive of your laptop? Your MBP's internal HD? A large-capacity small-profile 2.5 USB powered external HD seems like a pretty obvious and convenient solution. Like a 500 GB WD Passport, or something of that nature.
It's not clear why it's mandatory that hundreds of GBs of photographs be stored on the MacBook Pro's internal HD. Other options are available. It must make backup a slow process, for example, and if you have that much important data on your boot drive, you're probably having to back up to a safe location constantly.
The boot drive doesn't have to be the camel that carries everything, a fast, light boot drive can be an advantage. Even if you do have a gigantic boot drive installed on your laptop, you're not required to fill it to the max. Half full is good, it's faster that way. Let an external HD do the massive storage duty.
It's not clear why it's mandatory that hundreds of GBs of photographs be stored on the MacBook Pro's internal HD. Other options are available. It must make backup a slow process, for example, and if you have that much important data on your boot drive, you're probably having to back up to a safe location constantly.
The boot drive doesn't have to be the camel that carries everything, a fast, light boot drive can be an advantage. Even if you do have a gigantic boot drive installed on your laptop, you're not required to fill it to the max. Half full is good, it's faster that way. Let an external HD do the massive storage duty.