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Adding Storage and Backup
Most desktop and traditional laptop computers these days come with a fairly large amount of internal storage, anywhere from 500GB (for a basic laptop) up to 10TB (that’s 10 terabytes—one of which is equivalent to 1,000 gigabytes) or more. That’s plenty of storage for most people, even if you download a lot of music and videos or store a ton of digital photos.
Some smaller notebook PCs don’t have that much internal storage, however, especially if they use solid state drives. Since SSD storage costs a little more than traditional hard disk drive storage, you typically get a little less storage capacity for ...
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