How much storage capacity should a laptop have?

If you save a lot of films from the Internet and take a lot of photos, you save all these photos

With many films and photos etc. You need at least 4 TB but if you have a lot of downloads at least 8-10 TB

I think 1TB is enough for a laptop, but I don't know what you want to do on it. For example, I have on my PC that I use for everything, that is, games, photos from the mobile phone, school, 2TB hard disk space (HDD) and another 240GB SSD on which Windows and the most important programs are installed. I don't think a laptop has to be that overkill.

I think 4TB is absolutely too much? I also have a lot of pictures and videos from my mobile phone on my PC and thus not even occupy 200GB.

240gb SSD for the operating system and possibly programs that you use often

500-1TB HDD for the rest of the stuff

8-10 TB? How many films should he download? One movie has about 2-3GB of storage.

With a 2TB hard drive it would be around 1000-1500 films

With many films you should have quite a bit of storage space. In my hard disk recorder I have 1 TB and about 200 recordings on it. A few films, but also a lot of series episodes. It is two-thirds full.

I would say 2 TB is quite appropriate I think. Otherwise, if the majority of the films are being made at home, an external hard drive or network storage device (NAS) would be worth considering.

So a laptop is more of a work device for me.

An internal SSD of 250 or 500GB should be enough.

But for really large amounts of data you can attach an external 2.5 "HDD to the" USB 3.x "port. The part can then have a capacity of 2TB.

And several external HDDs can be plugged in via a USB hub.

And 3.5 "HDDs can also be used as USB devices. This would allow capacities of 8-16TB (and theoretically more).

But then I would prefer to use a 2Bay or even 4Bay NAS.

A SmartTV could then directly access these films, photos and possibly music via the home network. Or every device connected to the network that has been granted access rights and can process the respective data format.

I said when he downloads (extremely) a lot. My hard drives are already full because of films and other things