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That's for 2.5" SATA SSDs. Some people have embedded PCIe drives. And on some macs they are soldered. Regardless, reserving 10GB for offline help isn't that bad.

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AFAIK the point about Macs is untrue.

While the RAM in many Macs is soldered into the motherboard, SSDs are not (they are often proprietary, though).

These days they're mostly (possibly always) flash on the motherboard. Afaik, chances are the only way you'll find a removable SSD in a Mac is if its stock spinning-platter drive was replaced.

That's only true for the MacBook, which isn't a suitable development machine anyway. In both the current MacBook Pro and MacBook Air the storage is a PCIe SSD.

I said some Macs (thinking about the 12" retina) but I think that's where they are moving.

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