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I have been shopping for a laptop for college and it seems that a lot of gaming laptops nowadays have smaller SSDs (HP Omen, Razer Blade, Lenovo Y50). It seems like it would be impossible to have a laptop, store things (music, video and games) while having extra wiggle room in the hard drive. Can anyone who has had a gaming laptop with a smaller SSD tell me their experience about managing that amount of hard drive space?

 

The HP Omen for $1299 on amazon seems great, but the 256gb SSD on it seems extremely limiting.

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just check for a 128gb ssd + 1tb hdd.

or get this drive and replace the original : http://www.wdc.com/fr/products/products.aspx?id=1190

just make sure it fits

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256GB SSD + 1TB (or larger) HDD would be enough for me in a laptop, any less than that could be a little small..

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I am using a 240GB SSD with a 2TB HDD for my desktop

I have 80GB free on my SSD

Everything I have is on my SSD except for video files (since I record stuff)

 

I am very organised though, and always remove things I dont need to keep my OS as clean and optimised as possible

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I have been shopping for a laptop for college and it seems that a lot of gaming laptops nowadays have smaller SSDs (HP Omen, Razer Blade, Lenovo Y50). It seems like it would be impossible to have a laptop, store things (music, video and games) while having extra wiggle room in the hard drive. Can anyone who has had a gaming laptop with a smaller SSD tell me their experience about managing that amount of hard drive space?

 

The HP Omen for $1299 on amazon seems great, but the 256gb SSD on it seems extremely limiting.

I manage by using more drives. Like this.

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I have finally moved to a desktop. Also my guides are outdated as hell.

 

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just check for a 128gb ssd + 1tb hdd.

or get this drive and replace the original : http://www.wdc.com/fr/products/products.aspx?id=1190

just make sure it fits

 

A lot of the thinner laptops don't use 2.5" drives, which is very annoying

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A lot of the thinner laptops don't use 2.5" drives, which is very annoying

Wat? Those are uber-thin then? 2.5" drives are a staple; even if they're 7mm thick only. Very few machines use mSATA or M.2 only, and any computer that uses M.2 only is in for some problems with how hot the controller gets.

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I have been shopping for a laptop for college and it seems that a lot of gaming laptops nowadays have smaller SSDs (HP Omen, Razer Blade, Lenovo Y50). It seems like it would be impossible to have a laptop, store things (music, video and games) while having extra wiggle room in the hard drive. Can anyone who has had a gaming laptop with a smaller SSD tell me their experience about managing that amount of hard drive space?

 

The HP Omen for $1299 on amazon seems great, but the 256gb SSD on it seems extremely limiting.

 

You can always upgrade the SSD :) 

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Not in the Razer blade!

=D

 

Yes you can, its an M-Sata SSD - in fact in this teardown the guy installed a second one

 

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Razer+Blade+14+%282013%29+Teardown/22591

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External HDD?

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Yes you can, its an M-Sata SSD - in fact in this teardown the guy installed a second one

 

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Razer+Blade+14+%282013%29+Teardown/22591

I should have been more specific:

You can't without breaking your warranty, and Razer will not sell replacement OR addition SSDs for the blades.

I have finally moved to a desktop. Also my guides are outdated as hell.

 

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I should have been more specific:

You can't without breaking your warranty, and Razer will not sell replacement OR addition SSDs for the blades.

 

Fair enough

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