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Re: Add a hard drive to existing system??

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On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 01:52:06PM -0500, Jerry Mellon wrote:
> Hello,
> New to Debian, but have gotten Debian 10.7 loaded on to my system. I
> have an ASUS gaming laptop(dont use it for gaming) with 12gb of memory
> and intel corei7 and a 500gb hard drive.
> 
> My question is what is the best(use dummy for linus statements please)
> way to add a second hard drive with 2T of space. I wiil use this to
> store photos and documents etc.

It is often hard to change the hardware on a laptop. Probably the easiest way
is to get an external disk with a USB interface, then plug the disk in when you
need to get/put files to the disk. 

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Add a hard drive to existing system?? Jerry Mellon <jfmellon@netscape.net> - 2021-01-17 20:00 +0100
  Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Alain D D Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> - 2021-01-17 20:00 +0100
    Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-01-17 20:20 +0100
  Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-01-17 21:20 +0100
  Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2021-01-17 21:20 +0100
  Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Jerry Mellon <jfmellon@netscape.net> - 2021-01-17 23:50 +0100
    Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-01-18 00:00 +0100
      Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-01-18 00:20 +0100
        Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-01-18 00:40 +0100
        Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Keith Bainbridge <ke1thozgroups@gmx.com> - 2021-01-18 08:50 +0100
    Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-18 09:00 +0100
    Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Keith Bainbridge <ke1thozgroups@gmx.com> - 2021-01-18 10:10 +0100
      Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-01-18 10:30 +0100
        Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-01-18 21:20 +0100
          Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Keith Bainbridge <ke1thozgroups@gmx.com> - 2021-01-19 07:40 +0100
  Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-01-18 10:10 +0100

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