Upgrade to 500 Gb SSD for macbook Air

Using examples from your suggestions in https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5602141?tstart=0, 1 TB drives are selling for ~$75 to ~$90 and 500 GB drives are selling for ~$60 to $75 (Amazon pricing). So ~$60 and ~$80 are both in about the right range.

The point is they are inexpensive compared to the alternatives. A price difference estimate of $20 is in the noise.

Yeah, but it still less expensive than selling your 1 year old MacBook Air and getting a new one... $ 275 USD and you get the tool kit, and 1 enclousure wich can be used to put the stock ssd and you will have a nice external drive to move data securely...

Plus, you can use a clone app to clone your stock ssd into the new ssd and you have to loose no data at all... it is pretty easy, it is a very DIY job and quick enough...

A 480 GB SSD for a MBA would cost a litte over $500.

A new MBA with a 512 SSD would cost $1,600 (4 GB RAM) to $1,700 (8 GB RAM).

Apple referbished units sell for ~20% less.

An external HD to offload the seldom-used data would cost ~$80.

If you offload your data onto and external drive be sure to backup that external drive or risk losing it.

I know, it was just a playful ribbing...of course 😊

Toshiba 2TB Canvio Basics USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive (HDTB220XK3CA)

$50 per terabyte currently on the "tiny giant" 2TB 2.5" Toshiba $100 TOTAL

(own several of them, great tiny massive storage for home use or portable use)

http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Canvio-Basics-Portable-HDTB220XK3CA/dp/B00ARJD56K/ ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1389224434&sr=8-2&keywords=toshiba+2tb

Only using do-it-yourself kits sold by vendors like

http://www.macsales.com/

However it's very expensive.

Buy a 1tb external HD

a SSD is both expensive and a bad idea to upgrade. You Air is not a mass storage device.

Use an external HD for parking large media files.

hands4 Veritomyx, Inc.

An external HD to offload the seldom-used data would cost ~$80.

$60 😊

Now that I think of it that should be ~$160 for the external data offload system: ~$80 for a 1 TB offload disk and the same for a backup disk on which to clone it. Still inexpensive.