Most useful feature on my CF-54 is removable hard drive bay. It takes any 2.5" SATA drive and makes it breeze to upgrade and backup my work. As an developer and traveling dev, I cannot take all my work with me all the time and especially this turns my favorite CF-54 valuable tool.
I have two HD trays, which I rotate based on my work situation and travels I am taking. These serve also on update situations, since I just swap SDD out and archive it and buy new to install things from scratch.
By doing this, I have pile of SSD's archived with date and fully working environment - compilers, tools and probably some specific tweaks on my Linux. I have found this solution better, when I might need to return to some old project and deliver something on that. Since SSD prices are dropping, I believe this is pretty good backup strategy as well. Of course, I do run off site backups to USB HD's and USB sticks, but hardly any cloud based.
All I wish from Panasonic, please deliver CF-54 with i7, upto 32/64 GB RAM and couple of NVME bays together with decent Linux strategy (like Dell's project Sputnik). There are tons of professionals working with your gear and Linux.
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