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>"Keep Your Drive" is now a non-free (but not that expensive) "service upgrade".

It's almost more of a donation in my experience. Don't pay it, remove the disk, no consequence. It's also a good idea to put the OEM ram back in the machine if youve upgraded. One of the few things they may balk at and return it unfixed.

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In the case where you're sending it in for a repair under warranty, I imagine for some classes of problems the manufacturer could refuse warranty service if you've removed the drive, especially since most designs now make it really easy to accidentally damage something while doing that.

In the US they would have to prove your removal of the drive is what caused the damage,

I am not sure how it easy to damage something when removing a NVMe drive, it is trivial to remove the drive and should not even come close to damaging anything

Put the OEM RAM back? Hard to do otherwise when it's soldered to the laptop.

Well then you also couldn't have upgraded it which was a condition he specified for putting the OEM RAM back.

Clearly. But it's a complaint along similar lines of laptops being harder to work on.

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