inkbug There's a special slot-and-rail arrangement for easily adding and removing 2.5" SSD cards, but if you want to plug in an older HDD (say, for transferring data from the older machine) or disconnecting one of the M.2 drives (say, in order to install an OS on one without making changes to the other) it gets much more complicated, as the construction used for housing the graphics card prevents access to the motherboard. They have a guide on their site for how circumvent this construction safely, but it is out of date and doesn't match the newer machines.
that should not be designed so inaccessible--this is important hardware. To a designer, I am guessing, there has to be some trade-offs in a 17"X10" work area--that's not a lot of space.
I'd ask you about longevity because that would be my price point for the $$...at least 15 years of problem-free. Is that realistic? I have run desktops (lenovo mostly) older than that company that never needed anything more than a memory stick.
Every year I go to their website and stare like a hungry dog at photos of their desktop units...sometimes,,even though I don't have the dough...I would fill in all their options when building my dream Sys76 machine and send it to the cart. It's fun to dream! I will have one some day.
More to topic, I've seen so many Solus to Sys76 posts that it seems incredibly easy--something has to give here. Hope you figure it out. That's a handsome home to run Solus on. If you could confirm what @tflovik said about the 14 at least you'd know. And would have to plan for an exciting install 🙂.
Thanks for your thoughtful, nuanced reply.
BuzzPCSOS Depending on what operating system was loaded on your PC previously you might need to wipe the disc partition table to get Solus to install without complications. Plenty written on this forum regarding that already.
He's installing I think, to an always unused second physical drive but I agree that doesn't mean Sys76 formatted it GPT. Good catch there.
