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I have a 1 terabyte SSD in my Mac Book Pro (pre retina), and it cost about $250 on sale from Amazon.
You're running into Apple making a mint off of you, rather than FLAC's being too large.
For the desktop, it's even cheaper. 2TB hard drive is around $100.00 - how many latte's is that? If you can afford to go out and eat a $50 meal (including tips and drinks,etc), that's about 2 meals worth... still very cheap.
Transcoding is an option you know? Keep FLACs as source, and transcode for portable usage.
https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultra-2-5-Inch-Height-SDSSDHI...
for example this is $228 for 960 gigs and they have these kinds of sales all the time ... if that's not insanely cheap I don't know what your definition is. Note that it's twice as much storage as what you're getting from apple for $300, and speedwise you won't notice a difference unless you're doing hard core file transfers 24/7.
Or this one: $219 for 960 Gigs SSD https://www.amazon.com/dp/B019H3B6SA/ref=psdc_1292116011_t3_...
Storage prices for SSD's are literally crashing all around us if you are in North America. It doesn't make any sense for people to cover their eyes and not see.