I recently ended up with an external m2 drive enclosure. I don't really have an m2 drive for it but if I were to want to get a 1tb backup, that could in theory hold all my photos (for the time being).

SSDs are now the norm in computers. With older laptops and desktop PCs, the low capacity of the original SSD is usually the main reason for an upgrade, with the old SSD replaced by one with more space ...