That depends on what you consider cheap.  I looked them up on Amazon, and the $40 one I recommended above is 250G, plenty for an OS, but not for editing videos.

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On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 6:48 PM Lei Zhang via Scale-planning <scale-planning@lists.linuxfests.org> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 14, 2026 at 9:08 PM Lan Dang via Scale-planning
<scale-planning@lists.linuxfests.org> wrote:
> These Dell laptops should take m2. 2230 or 2280 NVMe drives.
>
> Is this the type of component we can ask people to donate from their old hardware stash or should we try to acquire new?
>
> What are inexpensive sources of these drives?  Does it matter whether it is 2230 or 2280?

Even 128 GB should be plenty, but I don't know if they make them that
small anymore. With the current RAM crunch, SSD prices have
skyrocketed as well, so it may be hard to get them at a reasonable
price. In the NVMe form factor, it is SSD only. Too small for hard
drives.
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