HDD Upgrade

[danielbtdm]

Hello, I’m looking for a new SSD to speed up my laptop, it needs to be SATA so would an 850 Evo (250gb) or and 860 Evo be good?

 

Please Advise

[jaslion]

2 minutes ago, danielbtdm said:

Hello, I’m looking for a new SSD to speed up my laptop, it needs to be SATA so would an 850 Evo (250gb) or and 860 Evo be good?

 

Please Advise

Price? The 850 evo is old at this point. Usually the samsung drives go at a premium and you should be able to get like a wd blue 500gb one for a little over the price of a 860 evo.

[CPT_BEEMO]

1 minute ago, danielbtdm said:

Hello, I’m looking for a new SSD to speed up my laptop, it needs to be SATA so would an 850 Evo (250gb) or and 860 Evo be good?

 

Please Advise

The most common hard drives today use SATA power and data connections. I did this on my 10 year old laptop, as well as a friends 13 year old laptop, both of which had this connector. 

 

In order to 100% confirm we would need your laptop model number, otherwise we cannot help you. You could also google "Insert laptop model" Hard drive replacement and find videos or articles online on how to do it.

 

Would't be a bad idea to put new thermal compound on the CPU while youre in there, so long as you're comfortable doing so.

[danielbtdm]

8 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Price? The 850 evo is old at this point. Usually the samsung drives go at a premium and you should be able to get like a wd blue 500gb one for a little over the price of a 860 evo.

The maximum price is around £80-£100 and it need to have DRAM

[danielbtdm]

8 minutes ago, CPT_BEEMO said:

The most common hard drives today use SATA power and data connections. I did this on my 10 year old laptop, as well as a friends 13 year old laptop, both of which had this connector. 

 

In order to 100% confirm we would need your laptop model number, otherwise we cannot help you. You could also google "Insert laptop model" Hard drive replacement and find videos or articles online on how to do it.

 

Would't be a bad idea to put new thermal compound on the CPU while youre in there, so long as you're comfortable doing so.

It’s a brand new Fujitsu Esprimo

[CPT_BEEMO]

4 minutes ago, danielbtdm said:

It’s a brand new Fujitsu Esprimo

Jusy by googling Fujitsu Esprimo I found about a dozen different models from desktops to laptops. Please provide the model number located on the bottom of the computer.

[danielbtdm]

2 minutes ago, CPT_BEEMO said:

Jusy by googling Fujitsu Esprimo I found about a dozen different models from desktops to laptops. Please provide the model number located on the bottom of the computer.

fujitsu esprimo d556/2 e85

[CPT_BEEMO]

23 minutes ago, danielbtdm said:

Hello, I’m looking for a new SSD to speed up my laptop, it needs to be SATA so would an 850 Evo (250gb) or and 860 Evo be good?

 

Please Advise

Your original post states you have a laptop, but the model number D556/2 e85 on fujitsu's website shows it is a compact desktop computer, which is confusing. Nevertheless, according to the data sheet https://sp.ts.fujitsu.com/dmsp/Publications/public/ds-ESPRIMO-D556-2-E85.pdf it shows any hard drive with serial data and power will work just fine. Samsung evo 860 or 850 would work, as well as almost any OTC hard drive you can buy that has the SATA data and power connections.

[MarvinKMooney]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07H5BTB34?tag=pcp0f-21&linkCode=ogi&th=1

[danielbtdm]

3 minutes ago, CPT_BEEMO said:

Your original post states you have a laptop, but the model number D556/2 e85 on fujitsu's website shows it is a compact desktop computer, which is confusing. Nevertheless, according to the data sheet https://sp.ts.fujitsu.com/dmsp/Publications/public/ds-ESPRIMO-D556-2-E85.pdf it shows any hard drive with serial data and power will work just fine. Samsung evo 860 or 850 would work, as well as almost any OTC hard drive you can buy that has the SATA data and power connections.

I really do apologise, I meant pc not laptop, does the 850 Evo or the 860 Evo have DRAM Cache?

[CPT_BEEMO]

2 minutes ago, danielbtdm said:

I really do apologise, I meant pc not laptop, does the 850 Evo or the 860 Evo have DRAM Cache?

For the 850 Evo according to https://hothardware.com/reviews/samsung-ssd-850-evo-sata-solid-state-drive-review

 

"All of the Samsung 850 EVO series drives also feature some LPDDR2-1066 DRAM cache memory. The 120GB drive sports 256MB of cache, the 250GB and 500GB drive have 512MB of cache, and the 1TB drive has 1GB of cache"

 

On Tom's hardware, I was also able to confirm the 860 Evo has DRAM cache ranging in size depending on storage capacity, found here: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/samsung-860-evo-ssd-review,5446.html

[MarvinKMooney]

3 hours ago, danielbtdm said:

I really do apologise, I meant pc not laptop, does the 850 Evo or the 860 Evo have DRAM Cache?

Out of pure curiosity what do you need the DRAM cache for?

[danielbtdm]

11 minutes ago, Viridian said:

Out of pure curiosity what do you need the DRAM cache for?

Lol Linus said it was better than an D-Ram less SSD

[MarvinKMooney]

1 hour ago, danielbtdm said:

Lol Linus said it was better than an D-Ram less SSD

Ahh okay that is true but most “well” built SSD’s will have.

[danielbtdm]

3 minutes ago, Viridian said:

Ahh okay that is true but most “well” built SSD’s will have.

Yeah, I just wanted to make sure I was getting the best performance for the price. Anything must be better than a Mechanical HDD though...

[MarvinKMooney]

Just now, danielbtdm said:

Yeah, I just wanted to make sure I was getting the best performance for the price. Anything must be better than a Mechanical HDD though...

Absolutely as long as it’s not the “super fast SSD” from a gas station.

[danielbtdm]

14 minutes ago, Viridian said:

Absolutely as long as it’s not the “super fast SSD” from a gas station.

Lol

[danielbtdm]

4 hours ago, Viridian said:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07H5BTB34?tag=pcp0f-21&linkCode=ogi&th=1

Btw, is this a good SSD do you know of?

[MarvinKMooney]

13 minutes ago, danielbtdm said:

Btw, is this a good SSD do you know of?

From what I can tell they manufacture their own products but I’m sure if you dig deep they prolly just rebrand. But from every thing I’ve seen they have good reviews and sold on amazon at least you can easily return it if it’s crap.

[MarvinKMooney]

18 minutes ago, danielbtdm said:

Btw, is this a good SSD do you know of?

Peace of mind you can go for https://www.amazon.co.uk/WD-Blue-NAND-Internal-Inch/dp/B073SBQMCX/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=wd+ssd&qid=1589670558&sr=8-6 it is more $ though so up to you.

[danielbtdm]

15 minutes ago, Viridian said:

Peace of mind you can go for https://www.amazon.co.uk/WD-Blue-NAND-Internal-Inch/dp/B073SBQMCX/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=wd+ssd&qid=1589670558&sr=8-6 it is more $ though so up to you.

Think I’ll go for a 500GB 860 Evo coz read multiple good reviews and watched multiple reviews and for £75 GBP It’s good value for money 

[MarvinKMooney]

Samsung is my #1 choice for SSD’s but WD is definitely a trusted name for storage.

[LauRoman]

Crucial MX was a good choice in that price range, and they used to have good reviews, but have not checked lately. Also with 5 year warranty. If a choice between the samsung and the wd in a similar price range pribably go for the one with longer warranty.