[chez17]

It has an SD card reader. You can double the storage for super cheap.

[mmastrac]

You could even triple it with the new 200GB SD cards, but the performance won't be that great. Not so bad for storing documents and large media, I suppose.

Any idea if it uses one of the many standard-ish SSD SATA or PCIe interfaces?

[darcyparker]

You can upgrade the NGFF drive in many other chromebooks. I suspect you should be able to do the same for the new pixel. For example, see bubble 4 in the image at the bottom of this page: http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-fo... I upgraded my ngff to 128GB on my acer c720P chromebook.

[ash]

This option doesn't seem to be available in Pixel. SSD is soldered.

[cjbprime]

I have bad news -- the SD card reader on both the new and old Chromebook Pixel is hooked up over USB2 (i.e. max 20MB/sec transfer rate). There is no internal expansion via msata/pcie. And the SSD is soldered down.

[derekp7]

Would it be worth putting a large SD card on it, and using a portion of the internal storage as high speed cache?

[cjbprime]

I guess so. The question is whether it's worth spending $1k on a laptop with such a restriction, vs. just buying a different one for about the same price that's actually expandable.