On 6/23/2020 6:15 PM, nospam wrote:
In article , knuttle
wrote:

I currently have a 1 GB drive, and with the Windows 10, my programs, and
data I have about 300 MG on the drive.

i think you mean 1tb. nothing will work on 1gb anymore.

I have about 20,000 slides of
pictures taken over the last 50 years that I would like to add to the
drive. I also do a lot of genealogical research, which will add files
to the drive such as PDF books, and other documents.

From looking at the the flyers and in in computer stores, it seems like
the average size of solid state drives in new laptops is about 250GB
with a few at 300GB and 500 GB. So the new laptops will just not have
the storage I need.

well you did say you had 1g, so those have 500x as much space

the sweet spot these days for ssds is 500gb-1tb, with higher capacities
available.

How are others handling this problem with out robbing Fort Knox?

not keeping stuff on the laptop's internal drive.

use either a local server or the cloud or both and access it wirelessly.


The minute you put stuff on an external drive, you loose the versatility
of the Laptop as part of your data stays in the house while you are at
the cemetery looking for family tombstones, in the car in a campground
without access to a LAN, etc.