You can put multiple 8 gig m.2 ssds into 2.5" slot.

HDDs from the factory should come in a parked state, that means they don’t require any additional packaging apart from what they come in.

That’s how all computing hardware works since the early days of the industry apart from x86 architecture. Not sure why people only started noticing that recently after literally decades of software obsolescence.

You should see how Italians debate their own food when two of them are from two different towns. It’s bloody epic!