Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Menlo Park, CA, USA
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There is just really no world today where I wouldn’t use an SSD in a laptop. In a tower, I would probably do a hybrid, with a HDD with 2-4TB for storage, but in a laptop unless I were sooo $$ constrained, I’d go with SSD as the primary “OS drive and get as much storage as I could up to 512/1TB and then augment if I need a lot more storage with some external SSD or even HDD drives for external storage, or again, a hybrid with some 1TB SSD for rapid portable storage and a 4-6TB small form factor HDD for larger longer term storage and backup.
Reasons. Speed, reliability and physical mechanical robustness for a portable overall.