Roger That

There is a large parking building as mentioned above but it gets pretty busy and you'll probably end up on the top floor (in the sun) if you don't arrive early, and even that is busy. There are a lot of abandoned cars there for some reason, which doesn't help.

I get this and similar captchas a lot, particularly on international (i.e. non-Thai) sites. Thailand has quite a "dirty" IP space I think so any traffic originating from here is treated with increased suspicion.

Yeah, big capacities seem to be expensive or unavailable here, although you might occasionally find some OK deals on Lazada / Shopee. Best bet is often to import from Amazon US, UK or Germany, then you don't have to worry about import duty, or you can try AliExpress if you know what you're doing.

Lazada on a desktop browser is not a great experience. I suspect they don't really care, and I can't really blame them as I'd imagine 95%+ of traffic is via mobile app.

Bottom line is; any storage medium whether it be SSD or HDD can fail at any time. Could be in the first month, could be 20 years, you just don't know. That's why you must always have at least one backup for any data you don't want to lose. PS - 2.5 inch SATA drives whether hard disk or SSD can be powered by USB (via a caddy / USB to SATA adapter), regardless of whatever was posted earlier...

Even though the number of wearers has definitely dropped quite a lot in the past several months, I still suspect that Bangkok is the most masked-up city in the world. Even Tokyo seems to have largely ditched them, based on YouTube street footage from the past couple of months.

The world has moved on, Thailand.

Rama II is a complete mess at the moment with the construction going on.

You talked about replacing the laptop, that was why I mentioned it. If there are 4 internal bays why do you want an external solution, out of interest? If it's going to be accessed by more than one device then you might be better served by a NAS. Asustor make an all-flash one. I understand the RAID1 concept, it just seems that these USB connected external enclosures seem to be flakey based on the reviews you see on Amazon etc. The problem is not so much the SSDs, rather the enclosure ????.

Don't think you'll get good answers here but when I looked into this it seemed that external RAID enclosures probably increase the chance of data loss / downtime rather than reduce it. Do they make laptops with dual internal SSD (and RAID support)? I'd have thought so, but It's not something I've looked into. I suspect that might be a better option than any external enclosure. Edit: From a quick Google it seems that several Lenovo Thinkpads may have dual NVMe SSD slots. Good luck!

I've definitely noticed the number of people wearing has gone down significantly in the past few months here in (the suburbs of) BKK. I was honestly starting to think it would never happen.

I've been a Windows user all my life but if I were to buy a laptop right now it'd be an Apple (whatever the entry level one is, probably).

You could try buying the whole cable rather than an adapter? Probably less likely to break.

Surely your printer doesn't draw that much in standby, though, which I'd have thought is all that matters unless you're printing all the time...?

I think Thailand and Japan are the only countries where masking is still widespread (happy to be corrected). Maybe Philippines too? The rest of the world has, understandably, moved on.