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BCzuk

BCzuk

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Just bought a new laptop for myself to play some games on/use for work and have a question about adding a 2nd ssd drive. I am a computer noob when it come to this stuff (The first computer I bought in many years)

The computer came with a m.2 512 SSD and has a 2nd slot that I want to add a 2TB m.2 ssd to. My question is should I make the new larger SSD the main drive or will it make a difference in the performance?

The computer I got is this

ASUS - TUF Gaming A16 16" 165Hz Gaming Laptop​

FHD-AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS with 16GB DDR5 Memory- Radeon RX7600S​

512GB PCIe SSD​




The 2nd drive I bought is a

Samsung - 990 PRO 2TB Internal SSD PCle Gen 4x4 NVMe​




I will also upgrade the ram to dual 16gb ddr5 4800hz while I have it opened up
 
In practice….you won’t notice a difference.

From a pure performance standpoint the 2t will be faster in high QD workloads because more die (nand memory chips) can be accessed in parallel.

Unless you are doing a lot of heavy write workloads….I wouldn’t bother rewriting the operating system. Just add the 2T as a secondary drive
 
Thanks for the reply. For what I am going to be doing with it that sounds like the way to go and less chance of me messing something up
 
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Keep tit the way it is; the smaller SSD for the OS and applications... Data is for the big SSD.... I doubt that you have more then 1GB of data that you you need; the rest is porn-hub down-loads. :smokin::smokin::smokin:
 
I'm going to download Starfield in the next couple days so will see how much space that takes up. The laptop also came with a free copy of the new Avatar game which I am currently downloading, it's 80gb
 
Unless you're moving massive files back and forth constantly you'll never notice a difference.

Save yourself a lot of time and don't even bother with Starfield. It's terrible.
 
You won't really notice a difference in the ssds unless you have some specific use cases. The OEM ssd is probably on the cheap side, without looking it up, with limited or no dram(among other things), which will cause slow downs with large data transfers. But unless you do a lot of big data transfers you're unlikely to have a problem with it.

But yes, if you only have 1 stick of ddr5 ram in there now, there are benefits to adding a second. It has to be the exact same stick though, don't go mixing them.
 
Ummduh said:
You won't really notice a difference in the ssds unless you have some specific use cases. The OEM ssd is probably on the cheap side, without looking it up, with limited or no dram(among other things), which will cause slow downs with large data transfers. But unless you do a lot of big data transfers you're unlikely to have a problem with it.

But yes, if you only have 1 stick of ddr5 ram in there now, there are benefits to adding a second. It has to be the exact same stick though, don't go mixing them.
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With DDR5 I'd buy a set of 2 and just sell the 3rd. DDR5 has enough weird issues with it being new as it is. DDR4 would have issues sometimes from mixing different batches even of the part numbers and timings matched.
 
If it were mine I'd pull the 512, replace with 2tb, then do a clean install.
Mostly just to get rid of all the bullshit the OEM probably put on there.
I hate managing multiple drives.
 
87manche said:
If it were mine I'd pull the 512, replace with 2tb, then do a clean install.
Mostly just to get rid of all the bullshit the OEM probably put on there.
I hate managing multiple drives.
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I just remap the programs folder and downloads folder to the extra drive and stop thinking about it.
 
Probably be cheaper to use the 970 Evo Pro.

Since the machine is PCIe 3.0 x4 not sure the advantages of the 990 will be realized.

If you plan to move the SSD to another machine that does have PCI 4.x down the road, them MAYBE the 990 makes sense, but a better version of the SSD will probably be available then and a non-starter.

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Samsung has had a lot of QC issues lately with their SSDs. I moved over to Western Digital on my latest build.

And yeah, any laptop or prebuilt system you should wipe and reinstall a clean copy of the OS. Get rid of any of the bullshit bloatware and spyware that comes pre-installed.
 
71PA_Highboy said:
Probably be cheaper to use the 970 Evo Pro.

Since the machine is PCIe 3.0 x4 not sure the advantages of the 990 will be realized.

If you plan to move the SSD to another machine that does have PCI 4.x down the road, them MAYBE the 990 makes sense, but a better version of the SSD will probably be available then and a non-starter.

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The machine came loaded with this one so I should be ok with the new drive unless I am missing something

512GB PCIe® 4.0 NVMe™ M.2 SSD

Tomorrow when my dual 16gb ram shows up I will swap everything. I tried the Avatar game on it today and it ran very smooth with the graphics set high so that is promising.
 
BCzuk said:
The machine came loaded with this one so I should be ok with the new drive unless I am missing something

512GB PCIe® 4.0 NVMe™ M.2 SSD

Tomorrow when my dual 16gb ram shows up I will swap everything. I tried the Avatar game on it today and it ran very smooth with the graphics set high so that is promising.
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it will work, but the advantages PCIe 4.x has on the M.2 won't be realized... like putting premium in a car that takes 87.
 
71PA_Highboy said:
it will work, but the advantages PCIe 4.x has on the M.2 won't be realized... like putting premium in a car that takes 87.
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Ok that makes sense, thanks. I think I will use it as storage for now and see how things go. The laptop does not seem to have much bloatware on it but nice to know I can do a clean install and switch drives down the road if needed
 
Old thread but title works.

Just received my new laptop. It's a Sager NP8856E (Clevo PD50SNE-G). Has a 4TB OS drive and I had them install Windows 11 Pro (clean install, no bloatware).

Now I'm having second thoughts if having Windows installed was a good move. More from lack of knowledge than anything else. Reason being, I'd like to partition that drive. Say 1TB for the OS and the other 3TB as another drive.

Is partitioning a drive possible when the drive already has information (the OS) on it? If it matters, the drive is a Samsung 990 Pro M.2 PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD


Next question is the partitioning program. What's the go to these days? I did this once before many many years ago and if memory serves the program was called partition magic.

Any help appreciated.
 
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