Expanding Storage for my Surface Book

[Windows Central Question]

Hi,

I wanted to get some advice if I can please. I have a Surface Book (Intel Core i5 2.5Ghz, 8GB) this is all great. My issue is with storage, I only have 116GB of space on C: with 34GB free.

I'm going to be doing some learning work in which I will install VirtualBox and create 2 VM's on there (Linux builds). The issue is that its recommended that each VM be given 50GB of storage each to do what it needs to. I obviously don't have that so I was thinking of buying a USB drive and connecting that up to the Surface. How important is performance? Not hugely as each VM will be allocated 2GB of my 8GB, I'll deal with that but I do want a fairly decent USB drive so I wondered if anyone had any recommendations/suggestions on how I should do this?

Initially I'm thinking of this on Amazon "Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2 TB USB 3.0 Portable 2.5 inch External Hard Drive for PC and Mac - Silver "
(It thinks I'm spam if I put the link.

Surface Book supports USB 3.0 right?

Any comments on this.

Thanks,

Nic

 

[pkcable]

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You've asked something just a LITTLE above my skills, so I'm going to seek help on your behalf. I will reach out to some friends and try to get you an answer.

 

[RumoredNow]

Surface Book does have USB 3.0 ports x 2.

For minimum $ outlay a USB 3.0 stick might be a good idea. I'd really comb through spec and reviews to make sure you get a stick that performs the best.

How about a 3.0 compliant external HDD though? Huge amount of space and likely to have way more R/W speeds. It might prove to be a better investment in the long haul.

 

[holdum333]

Hi @ RumoreedNow. I think the OP mentioned a seagate external hard drive! That's what I would recommend, as you also did in your reply!
Here's quote from OP.:wink: Team work! Can you believe they now have 8TG external Hard Drives!
"Initially I'm thinking of this on Amazon "Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2 TB USB 3.0 Portable 2.5 inch External Hard Drive for PC and Mac - Silver "