I did purchase one diskless TerranForce barebone and subsequently installed
HDD by myself. Of course, the barebone came with original HDD bracket and
screws.
But the problem is that very few users are willing to even reinstall the
preloaded operating system. They usually don't replace
That's correct, yes. But that's on the hard disk, though...saving to the USB
drive will still save you your files.
Not unless you are carrying a USB drive, then you won't need the cloud
anyway.
In my opinion, ALL computers, tablets and phones should be diskless, like the
Raspberry Pi, no matter what the chipset is. If you buy a computer, tablet or
phone, it should come with an external disk, with your choice of a Free OS on
it. No internal pre-installed garbage, easy to transfer to
My lab's public workstations are diskless. Users bring their HDD or SSD and
connect them to the eSATA port.
Or, public computers don't even need hard disks and can run from the DVD
which is truly read-only.
