Laptop recommendation please with ability for 2nd HDD

km1500

can anyone recommend a 14 or 15 inch laptop which doesn't need to be too powerful as all I want to do is play music from it

a 500 gigabytes solid state drive for the C drive would be fine but I would like the ability to put a second spinning HDD of about two terabytes to hold all my music files

the reason for spinning HDD is simply cost and I don't need that performance of an SSD to hold the data files

MattMattMattUK

km1500 said:

can anyone recommend a 14 or 15 inch laptop which doesn't need to be too powerful as all I want to do is play music from it

a 500 gigabytes solid state drive for the C drive would be fine but I would like the ability to put a second spinning HDD of about two terabytes to hold all my music files

the reason for spinning HDD is simply cost and I don't need that performance of an SSD to hold the data files

You can pick up a 2TB M.2 for £60-80 so not really worth trying to save money, especially in a laptop where spinning rust is much more likely to fail. 

Alternatively do you actually need to play the music from a fixed drive, is it particularly unusual, or could you just stream it from either a cheap option of a service, or one you already have access to?

km1500

hi i have a collection high quality so want to play it locally. Hadn't realised 2TB M2 were so cheap. Thanks

Cisco001

Do you want a brand new laptop?


Or are you happy with dirt cheap used laptop? but that probably don't have 500GB SSD.

km1500

used would be fine as long as it accepts a 2nd hdd. Thanks

DullGreyGuy

2nd HDD needs to be internal or happy with an external drive?

km1500

internal please

fenlander_uk

It should be possible to replace the DVD drive in any laptop that has one with a HDD caddy.
Examples here.