(TECH) Looking for best M2 SSD for Laptop

Self ^ | 11/18 | Bikkuri

[Bikkuri]

Looking for best M2 SSD for 2019 HP low/mid lvl laptop.. (2tb)

[Bikkuri]

I would print out the stats, but it would be a LONG list.

Sysinfo isn't what it used to be "/ (also, CPU-Z gives too much info (not to mention it is actually created in CHINA >.<)

[Bikkuri]

Have been looking at comments from Amazon, starting at the 1 stars.. seems there are many issues (starting around 120gig) about many companies (about heat, time actually usable, speed, etc)..
2tb seems that it would be a major issue then :P

I am wanting 2TB, 1 for Winblows and 1 for Linux..

[Bikkuri]

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Any experience here?

[Boomer]

I would go with a smaller SDD, say 512 or 256 or even less, then use an external HDD for storage. File transfer would be the slowest part of it.

I found I doubled the speed of my used HP desktop computers by switching from
windslows to Linux Mint. The newest 20 version is very stable. Much better than the 18 I was running for years.

Heck; they make 1 TB SD cards and even larger flash drives now. I find that amazing.

I don`t use the SDD drives yet though so I can`t recommend a brand or model. In HDD I like Western Digital best.

[SaveFerris]

[ Windslows ]

Heh. I like it. OL

[SaveFerris]

[ Windslows ]

Heh. I like it. OL

[SaveFerris]

Where is the best place to buy it? (different versions?)

Thanks in advance for the info

[Bikkuri]

Lol.. I am a DOS/UNIX guy... (Ferris x 10)

Heck, I would go back, if I could....

I remember the Sheriff came after me because I actually “hacked” their system back then (in Texas)...

All I did was use a UNIX code to connect to a BBS (init, if I remember correctly)..

The Sheriff came to me personally (with the “admin”, who said he couldn’t imagine someone being able to “hack” that system). (I admitted it...This was back in the early 1990s)...

[SaveFerris]

I used to write some Windows software (and stuff for other platforms, as well). Before MS totally destroyed it, of course.

Ah, the good old days.

[Bikkuri]

[ Windslows ]

Heh. I like it. OL

I remember, back in the early '80s, when I was learning from an Apple 2e, PASCAL.... I earned a case/ per serson, for he people I could make a program for... for graduating from programming...

[SaveFerris]

I could log into the university’s DEC VAX 11-780 - using my Commodore 64 and a 300 baud modem. LOL (legit, for a class I was taking there). We also had a VAX 11-730 at a satellite campus. Where we used VT-100 and VT-101 monitors.

Gotta love a dot matrix printer.

Dot Matrix? I think she was in a movie!

[CptnObvious]

What exactly are you doing that you needed an SSD for your laptop? If all your wanting is Operating System speed, Amazon has a nice upgrade Kit:

Kingston KC600 SSD SKC600B/2048G Internal SSD 2.5 Inch, SATA Rev 3.0, 3D TLC, XTS-AES 256-bit Encryption - with Upgrade Kit

But if you are talking about intense Web Servers and fast databases. I'd be looking at a RAID drive or multiple RAID drives over a fiber optic interface.

And if your talking mission critical,. Yeah, multiples of everything (Laptops) and think LINIX.

For me, just wanting speed out of Windows. My SSD and some tweaks on my cheap Aspire 5 are heaven. But I cheated you see. Bought the Laptop with the SSD already in it and built for it and it shows.

So you might want to think of another Laptop with 2TB SSD already installed. Good grief, they come multi-core these days anyway.

Depends on what you are doing and where you are going with your setup.

[Bikkuri]

I can see that... I remember when NORTON UTILITIES was the best there was out there (DOS)

Peter Norton sold us out “/

I Miss DOS.. I still have GNU/Linux;
but we are getting thin (I am fighting spellcheck..)

[CptnObvious]

Oh, re-read your post. Your laptop is a 2019. So a new Laptop probably won't help. I would contact HP after SSD installation on any firmware upgrades/settings to fully access it.

CO

[Pontiac]

Dot Matrix? I think she was in a movie!

I fell in love with Dot Matrix after my love affair with Daisy Wheel ended.

[SaveFerris]

Heh

Then there were the punch cards you did by hand for EBCDIC.

We did that one time in tech school. I think that was the one where we had to hand-code everything in Assembler.

[Pontiac]

I never did any coding in tech school.

I did some DOS coding as a hobby on a Texas Instruments TI 99/4A

But I did see some guys in tech school walking around with shoe boxes filled with punch cards. This was 80-82.

Little did they know that little more than a decade later those skills would be only useful in government agencies like the IRS.

[FreedomPoster]

Samsung. A bunch of system guys I know were unanimous on this.

And M.2 is really just a physical size spec, there are 4 slightly different interfaces all using the M.2 size / form factor. I literally just went thru all this with a failing SSD on my main laptop in the last couple days. Ordered Saturday, arrived yesterday, and I immediately cloned the failing drive, swapped, and it worked.

I bought an 860 EVO drive, which is SATA, but your machine sounds newer, it probably uses NVMe, so you’d probably need a 970.

https://smile.amazon.com/Samsung-970-EVO-1TB-MZ-V7E1T0BW/dp/B07BN217QG

But you MUST verify that’s the right interface/connector keying. M.2 does NOT fully specify this.

[FreedomPoster]

Here’s the 2T stick.

https://smile.amazon.com/Samsung-970-EVO-Plus-MZ-V7S2T0B/dp/B07MFZXR1B

[ShadowAce]

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