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Most laptops these days have a m2 slot which makes upgrading pretty cheap
by merb 2y ago
Most laptops these days have a m2 slot which makes upgrading pretty cheap
- Rinzler89 2y agoA ~6TB M2 SSD upgrade on a laptop is anything BUT cheap, even external ones. That's why these HDDs exist: For the data hoarders on a budget who also need some portability instead of leaving everything at home on a NAS. You keep your existing 512/1024 SSD in your laptop for the "hot data" (OS, apps, frequently used work files), and get a 2.5 HDD for all the "warm/cold data" (steam library, photos, Nextcloud, backups, movies, etc). Storing all that type of data inside the laptop's SSD is kind of a waste of money at current SSD prices unless of course an 8TB NVME is not a huge expense for you, then by all means, but not everyone has that kind of cash lying around, hence why these 6TB 2.5 HDDs come in handy.