[kawsper]

The most irritating thing about the credit-card sized ones, are how they aren’t attached if you move around.

I like to be mobile, so I put some velcro ultra-mate on the back of my laptop, and also on my disk, then the disk can be attached and plugged in while I move around.

I also got a 90-degree USB-C cable for a more direct cable route.

[ssl-3]

Is this what we get when we stop making laptops with upgradeable internal storage?

[ZeroConcerns]

I just upgraded the internal storage of my Lenovo T14 (AMD, Gen6) to 4TB, and that took all of 5 minutes. And that laptop was definitely made in 2025, although I agree that consumer sentiment overwhelmingly favors models that are less convenient in that respect.

[bramhaag]

Meanwhile, modern Apple users: https://youtu.be/RDBX6FTYLoQ

[WesolyKubeczek]

For me it was pure ASMR content

[kmarc]

Same, with an x1 gen5, upgraded NVME to 1TB

This boy is 8 year old today (bought in 2017 November) and still delivers me the €€€ at $consultingjob

[zamadatix]

I still utilize large external drives on my laptop with upgradeable storage, so we get it either way.

[jack_tripper]

Not really an issue outside the Apple ecosystem and a few fringe tablet hybrids like from Microsoft. Vast majority of laptops sold today have standard SSDs you can upgrade.

[dspillett]

> Vast majority of laptops sold today have standard SSDs you can upgrade.

Though some make it quite difficult to get in to replace the drive, and put everything back together after.

Some are very easy: an obvious compartment at the bottom, unscrew lid, remove drive, put in replacement, power up and transfer old content, done. I've seen both NVMe and 2.5" SATA drives arranged this way. On the other hand, upgrading my friend's laptop recently involved taking most of it apart, the drive was under the keyboard inaccessible from the back, with other link cables (for keyboard, antenna, screen) in the way so they had to be disconnected and were in very inconvenient arrangements for reconnecting after…

[jack_tripper]

>the drive was under the keyboard inaccessible from the back

Must be an old design from around ~10 or so years ago. Acer I presume.

[blfr]

What do you do with all that storage?

Here's the root partition (well, lvm) on a laptop I have been using for over three years now

    » df -hT ~
    Filesystem                Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/mapper/vgubuntu-root ext4  869G  298G  527G  37% /

I do have an external drive for backups and another for drone footage but this is it. Everything else is either fast enough in the cloud or just here.

[kawsper]

I record video in raw, so it’s mainly dealing with video files during editing.

I want to see if I can move to prores in my import step, but I haven’t found a good workflow that allows for that.

[nextaccountic]

Rust compilation artifacts.

[saltcured]

This reminded me of my professor's laptop with a Ricochet wireless modem attached in much the same way back in the early/mid 1990s. That was an early wireless ISP prevalent in the SF Bay Area.