Laptop with hot swappable HDD

Ali195

Ali195

Ali195

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Wanted to buy the misses a laptop with the intention of it being used for work (office admin stuff so hardware doesn't need to be anything special) but with the ability to remove the HDD then slot in another. One would be for work and the other for personal, just like the caddy slots back in the day. So not mixing personal/work data on same disk, basically.

I've struggled to find anything like that and shes certainly not going to unscrew or take apart the laptop.
 
I suspect what you're looking for doesn't truly exist because it's not a use case that the majority would use it for. You could try dual booting on the internal drive and just show her how to get to the boot menu to select which partition to boot from.

As it's for work, is there a reason her employer isn't providing her with a laptop if she's supposed to be working at home on it?
 
Okay in this case it opens up a huge selection I would have never considered.

I'm way out of date with ports but she may want the use of an large external monitor at some point, more desktop realestate the better: does USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C with DisplayPort support crazy wide resolution, like those super wide screen Samsung Odyssey monitors? 60htz would be fine.
 
Ali195 said:
Okay in this case it opens up a huge selection I would have never considered.

I'm way out of date with ports but she may want the use of an large external monitor at some point, more desktop realestate the better: does USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C with DisplayPort support crazy wide resolution, like those super wide screen Samsung Odyssey monitors? 60htz would be fine.
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I am running 3440x1440 @ 144hz with Gsync off of the USB-c port on my Erazer X25 so it’s certainly possible. This is just with a normal usb-c to DisplayPort cable bought online. In my case the port connects directly to the Nvidia gpu for video out (DP alt mode).

I have also run the exact same monitor at 60 or 144hz of my work HP pro book G6 with the same USB-c cable I try iGPU off of a 8th gen i5, so it should work as long as the port is 10Gbps and supports DP alt mode.

In terms of the higher res wider monitors it will all come down to available bandwidth. The cable I bought also showed 4K60 as possible for example. I’d imagine that 60hz would be possible but worth researching online to be sure.
 
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