I've found 256GB to be a bit of a sweet spot. I can't get everything I would ever want on the disc, but it's enough with maintenance and uninstalling things I'm no longer using to any great extent. And the performance advantage of an SDD is so ridiculously nice that I would never give it up for a bit of extra convenience.
If you're doing things that are seriously space heavy like video editing, you'd probably need an external storage source to make up the difference. But for coding and general use, I find it to be more than enough.
Saying that, I'm sure there are developers out there who couldn't live in 256GB. I'm not sure how common they are but I'm sure they exist.
Perhaps I am a niche but I can't live in something that tiny. I have a MacBook with a Windows VM for developing on, compiling C++ in OSX and then also Windows. I also use it for recording audio, so disk space gets eaten quickly.
I really wish I could live in less space (I am constantly looking for stuff to delete) because then backups wouldn't be so painful.
If you're doing things that are seriously space heavy like video editing, you'd probably need an external storage source to make up the difference.
You'd probably need external storage either way. I used to have some friends who were big into video editing, they could chew through 1TB with just a few projects.
I've found 256GB to be a bit of a sweet spot. I can't get everything I would ever want on the disc, but it's enough with maintenance and uninstalling things I'm no longer using to any great extent. And the performance advantage of an SDD is so ridiculously nice that I would never give it up for a bit of extra convenience.
If you're doing things that are seriously space heavy like video editing, you'd probably need an external storage source to make up the difference. But for coding and general use, I find it to be more than enough.
Saying that, I'm sure there are developers out there who couldn't live in 256GB. I'm not sure how common they are but I'm sure they exist.