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UALOneKPlus
I have 2 partitions, one with tons and tons of work documents. A second partition with my software, Acronis True Image back ups, a few movies, and other media.
How much of that do you really need portably? How much of the subset that you need portably really needs to come everywhere the laptop does vs. a portable external drive that does occasionally?
500GB is not much space these days. Media and data are growing at an astonishing rate.
500gb is not a lot of space these days, in some senses; I've got a NAS setup with 10TB at home. I'm also fine with a 160gb SSD in my laptop, and a couple of externals in various sizes for the less frequent occasions when I need more space with me. That's increasingly rare: for documents and small-medium-sized files (up to about 50-100mb depending on the network I'm on), I can get anything I need off of the NAS remotely, so I don't see the need to keep all of my documents/photos/etc.