wrenaudrey
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I will be (definitely) purchasing a laptop very soon. And I have been eyeing the Lafite II from PCSpecialist for a long time now.
With the introduction of new drive options particularly M.2 drives from the more traditional 2.5" SSDs, im stuck and cannot decide on which to pick and very out of date with information on what is plain better in this situation.
I have a budget of £550-£650. Needs to be small, portable but with reasonable performance. So this is the spec:
CPU and Memory is pretty much staying as it is.
As said above, it's just the storage that im iffy about.
Storage options are:
Samsung SM951 256GB M.2 nVme
Samsung PM951 512GB M.2 nVme
Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SATA
Pretty much all these 3 drives will land me inbetween my budget.
My thinking with the M.2 drives is that, i could choose to have that in and later down the line if when needing more storage space, i could easily just pop a 2.5" SSD in.
However, i have worries about M.2 specially with nVme because i may be paying for a drive that will not really perform as nVme is advertised because of the CPU(i5 6200U) and maybe(not sure) because of the PCI-e on the actual board not really being compatible and hence the nVme drive just performing as a normal SSD.
Also, i've read when researching the drives that they get really hot and sometimes not performing as advertised(for example, performing even worse than a conventional 2.5" SSD). Also another is that, there is actually no support from Samsung on these M.2 drives as they are OEMs - so if they break, your stoofd.
Anybody had a chance on using/installing these drives?
Should i just not worry and get an M.2 drive?
--But which one, SM951 or PM951?
So any advice you can give me will be really helpful.
Thanks in advanced.
PS. If i had the option to get the Samsung 950 Pro, i wouldnt blink an eye, i'd just get that. But its not the 951 Pro, that's why im asking for advice
With the introduction of new drive options particularly M.2 drives from the more traditional 2.5" SSDs, im stuck and cannot decide on which to pick and very out of date with information on what is plain better in this situation.
I have a budget of £550-£650. Needs to be small, portable but with reasonable performance. So this is the spec:
CPU and Memory is pretty much staying as it is.
As said above, it's just the storage that im iffy about.
Storage options are:
Samsung SM951 256GB M.2 nVme
Samsung PM951 512GB M.2 nVme
Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SATA
Pretty much all these 3 drives will land me inbetween my budget.
My thinking with the M.2 drives is that, i could choose to have that in and later down the line if when needing more storage space, i could easily just pop a 2.5" SSD in.
However, i have worries about M.2 specially with nVme because i may be paying for a drive that will not really perform as nVme is advertised because of the CPU(i5 6200U) and maybe(not sure) because of the PCI-e on the actual board not really being compatible and hence the nVme drive just performing as a normal SSD.
Also, i've read when researching the drives that they get really hot and sometimes not performing as advertised(for example, performing even worse than a conventional 2.5" SSD). Also another is that, there is actually no support from Samsung on these M.2 drives as they are OEMs - so if they break, your stoofd.
Anybody had a chance on using/installing these drives?
Should i just not worry and get an M.2 drive?
--But which one, SM951 or PM951?
So any advice you can give me will be really helpful.
Thanks in advanced.
PS. If i had the option to get the Samsung 950 Pro, i wouldnt blink an eye, i'd just get that. But its not the 951 Pro, that's why im asking for advice
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