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    Laptop Drive options

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by rporterfield, Mar 1, 2017.

  1. rporterfield

    rporterfield Notebook Enthusiast

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    I am looking at getting a P870KM1 in the near future and I have a question about hard drive configuration. I currently have a Sager 9270 that the graphics card died on. It has a Samsung 850 EVO SATA III SSD and a Seagate 1TB SSHD that I was going to use in the new laptop. I am trying to decide if it would be worth it to get a m.2 drive for just the operating system and if so which one(SATA, PCI, NVME?). If I did that, then the 850 SSD would just be used for game data.
     
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  2. Meaker@Sager

    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    How big is your current SSD? You have two M.2 slots to do with as you wish. NVME would be a mild speed upgrade.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Mar 1, 2017
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    rporterfield Notebook Enthusiast

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    Oops. I guess I forgot to put that in there. The SSD is 500K.
     
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    Prostar Computer Company Representative

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    If the EVO is an adequate capacity for your needs, there's not much need to add an m.2 drive. The 850 EVO is a solid drive.
     
    Prostar Computer, Mar 2, 2017
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    rporterfield Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for the info.
     
    rporterfield, Mar 4, 2017
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