Most laptops and even many desktops now use a small circuit board type of module for a hard drive (m.2). They are available in various sizes depending on how much you want to spend - they are still pricey. Don’t expect a laptop or tablet to accept a standard type of hard disk, which is what the SSD drives are except for the m.2 I mentioned.

Good luck.

Peter Shkabara
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Subject: Re: Too-small SSDs

  Within the last 6-10 months, I've acquired three different lsptops that came with SSDs as their primary storage -- which I have outgrown:

1.  Asus Eebook X205T  This has 20GB of storage; the case is small enough and thin enough to make me wonder if it's a "real" SSD, or actually something like a microSD card inside the case...

    HP Stream X360    This is one of those laptops whoae screen folds
all the way over backwards to be used as a tablet..  A sticker next to the keyboard proclaims "Free upgrade to Windows 10 when available", but it turns out there isn't enough storage in the computer to actually INSTALL that update...  Nice and light, with a 64-bit CPU -- what a pity.

    MacBook Pro    The "Macintosh HD" volume is a partition occupying
the internal 250GB SSD, which gives me daily warnings about being nearly full.  I got a sweet Black Friday deal on a 500GB SSD, but research online suggest that the MacBook Pro is picky about which SSDs it will play with, and I don't know whether it will accept what I've got or not.
 And I won't worry about how to crack it open until I've cloned the internal drive to the new one...
  I wish system makers who pt for SSDs would go big rather than cheap!

David Gillett
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