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I love how the storage expansion cards are easily replaceable by the user: https://frame.work/blog/storage-expansion-cards https://frame.work/blog/storage-expan
by flowerlad 5y ago
I love how the storage expansion cards are easily replaceable by the user: https://frame.work/blog/storage-expansion-cards https://frame.work/blog/storage-expansion-cards
Sadly it looks like the boot drive cannot be replaced in this manner. Many years ago I had a Compaq laptop with swappable boot drive. So one day you can boot Windows and the next day you can boot Linux. Without any external drives. (No messing with dual boot -- you replace the hard drive completely.) If this company offered a similar feature I would buy the laptop in half a second.
- nrp 5y agoYou can actually boot Linux off of the Storage Expansion Cards (I do it regularly with Fedora 34 and Ubuntu 21.04). You can't easily do that with Windows 10, but you can put Windows 10 on the internal SSD and Linux on the Expansion Card to achieve what you're describing.
- meowster 5y agoSupposedly there are programs (Rufus?) that will install Windows to an external drive, but I've never tried that. I too might consider the Framework laptop if I could boot both Linux and Windows off of a Storage Expansion card.
- yellowapple 5y agoHow's performance relative to an internal drive? Historically when I've tried that it was kinda painful (there's a reason why "live" Linux distros used a ramdisk even after the advent of USB drives), but that was back before USB Type-C was a thing, so maybe that's fast enough that it'd at least be on par with a traditional HDD?
- follower 5y agoFWIW I've used "live" Linux distros running from a USB 3.0 flash drive stick (non-USB Type-C) on a variety of hardware and it was entirely "usable" if not ideal in terms of performance. (At least as a short term thing.) So I would imagine non-stick drives would work okay.