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The introduction of SSDs leading to SSD only personal computers accidentally set computing back about a decade. It's crazy that top tier computer manufacturers
by superkuh 3y ago
The introduction of SSDs leading to SSD only personal computers accidentally set computing back about a decade. It's crazy that top tier computer manufacturers are actually selling computers with un-upgradable storage of only 256GB (and only 8GB of ram) in 2023. Then these users end up having to juggle a handful of external drives which are far more unreliable and likely to cause weird problems. The vast majority of my tech support is helping people with tiny SSDs deal with the problems of external drives and cloud storage.
- catboybotnet 3y agoIt's a feature, not a flaw. You get to sell people on cheap NAND, and your cloud service. Windows will always nag you to use OneDrive, your OEM may have their own bloat/nagware, etc.
- supertrope 3y agoIt's a trade off. For many years PCs would make sure to include Intel i5 or i7 processors but boot off a HDD because they could list a big 1000GB storage bullet point. Big numbers on boxes sell! This meant slow PCs. Data hoarders should look for a PC with a hard drive or upgrade aftermarket.