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I appreciate your continued coverage of Chromebook devices! I do want to point out an error in this review, however. At time of publication, you say it has 0 storage slots and give it a bad serviceability score. You can clearly see a socketed M.2 2280 SSD in the provided pic however, even the model number that it’s a Western Digital SN740. You CAN replace that SSD– I have done that on many Chromebooks myself. If you want to do a write up when you edit this error, you can tell readers if they download an extension “Chromebook Recovery Utility” form the Web Store, they can add a USB drive (empty preferred, as it will format it) and make a recovery image for the exact Chromebook they’re on. Once you swap the SSD for either service or wanting to upgrade the capacity, just plug in the SSD when the “No bootable ChromeOS image found” (something like that) message shows, and it will install the OS. Bam.
I appreciate your continued coverage of Chromebook devices! I do want to point out an error in this review, however. At time of publication, you say it has 0 storage slots and give it a bad serviceability score. You can clearly see a socketed M.2 2280 SSD in the provided pic however, even the model number that it’s a Western Digital SN740. You CAN replace that SSD– I have done that on many Chromebooks myself. If you want to do a write up when you edit this error, you can tell readers if they download an extension “Chromebook Recovery Utility” form the Web Store, they can add a USB drive (empty preferred, as it will format it) and make a recovery image for the exact Chromebook they’re on. Once you swap the SSD for either service or wanting to upgrade the capacity, just plug in the SSD when the “No bootable ChromeOS image found” (something like that) message shows, and it will install the OS. Bam.
Hey!
Thanks for catching that. You’re right, it should absolutely be 1 and not 0. I’ll get that corrected and you should see an update shortly. I’ll also pass along your message to the writing team to see if they’d be interested in including a blurb about that! Thanks for the info!
Update: We’ve corrected a mistake in the Serviceability and Storage sections. The storage drive is user-replaceable; the slot supports M.2 2280 PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSDs.