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The SSD is soldered to the board and non-replaceable.

So basically it's a ticking bomb waiting to go in the trash. At that price, no way.

SSD's do fail, sometimes by accident, sometimes by software bugs. Some muppet added a swap partition to one of our build servers with a Samsung 830 and the cells were all worn out dead in 3 months from swapping.

I was interested in getting a Pixel until I learned this.

Non-LTE version should have a free PCI-e slot where you can install additional SSD disk. http://goo.gl/WkXX2

Are you sure that the connector for the PCI-e slot is going to be populated on the non-LTE model? Is there enough space for an SSD there?

Of course not since I don't have one to check. All I have is this pic and my experience modding laptops.

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