Do I need an external hard drive for a 256 GB SSD notebook?

Pa
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At notebooksbilliger.de and alternate.de I only find notebooks with 256 SSD. Does that mean that I always need a usb space for external storage for an external hard drive?

Ko

What is the budget? For which areas of application is the notebook used? How much memory do you need?

Alternate is usually more expensive than other online stores like mindfactory, otto, notebooksbilliger

Pa

That's not an answer to my question.

Ma

Yes it is. He asked back how much memory you need. And why you need more than 256GB.

cu

No answer to your question, but a question about your question to give you a more precise answer.

Gr

What does "for other storage space" mean?
Windows needs about 50-70 GB so you still have about 180GB space.
Is not that enough? How much GB occupy your data on your current PC?

Ma

A clean installation before win10 consumes about 20GB hard disk space (64 bit).

50-70 GB is clearly set too high.

Di

What do you want to do with the notebook?

For operating system, a few games and photos of 10 years, the place is enough. It gets tight with real gamers, video editing - but a notebook quickly reaches its limits.

Otherwise, it is possible with many notebooks to install later larger SSDs, the operating system in advance by USB docking station and the software of the SSD manufacturer (at least with Samsung SSDs) on it very easy to copy.

There are also inexpensive notebooks with SSD and hard disk on board. With notebooksbilliger you can look at the search "more filters" and tick "SSD + HDD".

Of course, you should still have at least two external hard drives for alternate backups. If the notebook is stolen, the SSD broken (although that is less common than hard drives) or has a virus "cleaned up, otherwise the old saying applies: no backup? - No pity!