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Apple is charging up to $1200 for an internal SSD while you can purchase a very fast Thunderbolt drive for a fraction of the price. However currently (without Thunderbolt 5 and a corresponding External Enclosure) it is still faster to run your System Startup on the internal drive. Also Apple Intelligence currently requires your Mac to start from its internal drive.
So the solution is to have a smallish internal SSD as your Startup while placing your other files on an external SSD. This is even achievable for MacBooks as the external drives are now so physically small that owners are simply attach them to the back of the screen. I have a desktop Mac so I also have at 8TB External RAIDed Hard Drive for my data.
Here is how...