Or is this a bad idea?
Reading through !selfhosted, I think I have found a new hobby. I have an old laptop HP ProBook 450 G5 4WU81ES.
16gb ram, solid CPU, shitty integrated gpu, and only 256gb ssd. Barely enough for system and some apps. Battery life maybe 30min unplugged so I take it as an UPS.
So the question again is, can I have permanently plugged external hdd to use as extension for this purpose?
I’m using a name brand external HDD for mass storage. Still using the internal ssd for everything else but I’m not interested in the cost of a multi-terrabyte SSD to do it internally.
Just have a backup plan in place because drives fail.