DukenukemX
Supreme [H]ardness
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His point is that the SSD can be perfectly fine and if it was removable then it can be transplanted to a new machine and never skip a beat. With soldered on SSD's, if you even look at the machine the wrong way and break it, your data is gone. The storage maybe just fine, but if the computer doesn't turn on then good luck. iCloud is a solution, to everything in the home folder but not the whole drive. The process of restoring all your data is going to take much longer, and still be inferior to just removing a M.2 drive and placing it into a new machine. I can take that M.2 and place it into an entirely new and better machine and still continue to use it without skipping a beat. Yes, backups are good, you should always backup, but hardly anyone does this. This is why so many iPhones are getting repaired, not because people intend to use the phone when fixed, but because they had photos they wanted and they weren't anywhere near a service to have iCloud back it up.I have to disagree with this part because Apple nags the shit out of you to enable iCloud sync for your home folder, and it also gives you frequent notifications about time machine if you aren't doing that, it is annoying very very annoying, and just about every Apple desktop user I know just pays the $1.99 a month for the 100GB or so of iCloud storage to make that go away so their no longer receiving the nagging messages about iCloud sync and TimeMachine sync, and then the "your iCloud is full messages" they get after enabling iCloud sync and TimeMachine to said iCloud.