SSD Hard for Laptop

[Islam Soliman]

Any one know which SSD will be suitable for Lenovo Y530 or Dell 7577 / G5? I'm going to buy Samsung Evo but need to know the form factory and which model should I get.

https://www.samsung.com/uk/ssd/all-ssd/

 

Thanks  

[r2724r16]

850/860 EVO if you're on a budget, 970 PRO if you need a lot of speed and don't care about price, and 970 EVO if you want more speed than a SATA SSD but you want to save some money.

[Quinten Verhelst]

If you're talking about physically fitting, the lenovo has a 2.5" drive slot as can be seen here

 

Dont know about he dell one.

[Islam Soliman]

3 minutes ago, r2724r16 said:

850/860 EVO if you're on a budget, 970 PRO if you need a lot of speed and don't care about price, and 970 EVO if you want more speed than a SATA SSD but you want to save some money.

So, What is the different between those : NVME PCIE M.2 / Sata III / M.2 Sata. I'm  a bit confused

[Islam Soliman]

I will check it again after the below reply from r2724

[r2724r16]

1 minute ago, Islam Soliman said:

So, What is the different between those : NVME PCIE M.2 / Sata III / M.2 Sata. I'm  a bit confused

SATA and NVME are interfaces. 2.5" and M.2 are form factors. SATA SSDs are the slowest, and PCIe NVME SSDs are the fastest.

 

An M.2 SATA SSD is just a SATA SSD in the M.2 form factor.

[genexis_x]

41 minutes ago, Islam Soliman said:

Any one know which SSD will be suitable for Lenovo Y530 or Dell 7577 / G5?

Is the M.2 slot empty?

 

You can only install NVMe drive in Y530, SATA won't work. G5 supports both SATA and NVMe. May I know where are you from and what's your budget for the SSD?

 

Also, have you decide which model to get? Both have their own pros and cons, if you need further explaination just hit me up

[Islam Soliman]

22 minutes ago, GeneXiS_X said:

Is the M.2 slot empty?

 

You can only install NVMe drive in Y530, SATA won't work. G5 supports both SATA and NVMe. May I know where are you from and what's your budget for the SSD?

 

Also, have you decide which model to get? Both have their own pros and cons, if you need further explaination just hit me up

Thanks for your Support  

I'm going to get a laptop with 1TB HDD + 128gb SSD then I will remove the 128gb (will make it as external hard disk) and add 500gb instead.

 

I'm still don't know which one to get from the 3 laptops. I'm from Egypt but I'm going to get the SSD from Amazon UK. Ofc if you can recommend something else will be great.

 

I will buy from the below websites:

https://2b.com.eg/en/computers/laptops.html

https://www.computershopegypt.com/en/Computers/laptops-notebooks

 

Budget 25,000 L.E  = 1300$. That's my MAX.

 

For the SSD; my max will be 85 Pound. I don't care a lot about the brand but I heard that samsung is the best for an SSD.

 

Forgot to mention that the main reason for the laptop is 2D Graphic and Website Designs. I will play games for sure but that's not my main focus.

[genexis_x]

May I know your usage? Any preference on weight and battery life? Do you mind low sRGB display?

[Islam Soliman]

16 hours ago, GeneXiS_X said:

May I know your usage? Any preference on weight and battery life? Do you mind low sRGB display?

2D & website designs on photoshop + illustrator mainly. I have made my search about the sRGB and most gaming laptop suck in it.

Laptop will be always plugged in; no problem with that and weight is not a big deal. 

 

A bit SRGB and brightness will be better for sure  Don't care much about (hz) as gaming is not my main.

 

[genexis_x]

18 hours ago, Islam Soliman said:

photoshop

Try to find Legion Y530 with 300 nits 72% NTSC IPS

[Islam Soliman]

1 hour ago, GeneXiS_X said:

Try to find Legion Y530 with 300 nits 72% NTSC IPS

Thanks a lot!  Do you think Y530 is the best choice even if it's just 250 nits? better than Y520 / G5 / 7577? with same specs?

 

[genexis_x]

8 hours ago, Islam Soliman said:

Thanks a lot!  Do you think Y530 is the best choice even if it's just 250 nits? better than Y520 / G5 / 7577? with same specs?

Side to side comparison with G5:

Y530 - more portable+modern design (eg thin bezel), better keyboard, less flashy

G5 - sturdier keyboard deck, optional TB3

7577 - basically the same with G5 but with weaker CPU (i7-7700HQ max)

Both have similar display quality if Y530 is equipped with 250 nits 45% NTSC IPS

[Islam Soliman]

On 11/25/2018 at 4:31 AM, GeneXiS_X said:

Side to side comparison with G5:

Y530 - more portable+modern design (eg thin bezel), better keyboard, less flashy

G5 - sturdier keyboard deck, optional TB3

7577 - basically the same with G5 but with weaker CPU (i7-7700HQ max)

Both have similar display quality if Y530 is equipped with 250 nits 45% NTSC IPS

According to your recommendation; I have bought Y530 (i7/16GB ram/2tb+256ssd) everything is working perfect and the brightness closed to 300nits as the papers shown but I can't make sure from that (I'm satisfied with it anyway).

 

I'm just worried about the heat problem and fans. Yesterday the fans get load with normal tasks like installing an app or opening an app like Intel XTU or  Lenovo Diagnostics and I got blue screen while testing the GTX 1 time yesterday. Today I made the test again and didn't get the blue screen but thermal throttling in Intel XTU always (YES) until the testing finished.

 

Today the fans are ok... But for the heating agv. (45~75) while installing apps. Is that normal?

 

Also, in the BIOS - System show that the 2 hard drive HDD without any SSD label. In disk defragment the label changed to SSD. Is that normal too?

[genexis_x]

15 minutes ago, Islam Soliman said:

I'm just worried about the heat problem and fans

CFL-H runs hot, especially 8750H. Refer to my review for more tuning tips. Guides for undervolting are in my sig below

15 minutes ago, Islam Soliman said:

Also, in the BIOS - System show that the 2 hard drive HDD without any SSD label. In disk defragment the label changed to SSD. Is that normal too?

Mind taking a screenshot?

[genexis_x]

17 minutes ago, Islam Soliman said:

the brightness closed to 300nits as the papers shown but I can't make sure from that

If you're using around 20% brightness in indoors, you got the 300 nits panel. If 40-50%, 250 nits

[Islam Soliman]

10 minutes ago, GeneXiS_X said:

If you're using around 20% brightness in indoors, you got the 300 nits panel. If 40-50%, 250 nits

 

[genexis_x]

Does the laptop come with SSD by default? Or it's a manual upgrade?

[Islam Soliman]

22 minutes ago, GeneXiS_X said:

Does the laptop come with SSD by default? Or it's a manual upgrade?

It came with 256 SSD already and the ticket on the Box got  (2TB + 256gb ssd)

[Islam Soliman]

24 minutes ago, Islam Soliman said:

It came with 256 SSD already and the ticket on the Box got  (2TB + 256gb ssd)

 

[Islam Soliman]

1 hour ago, GeneXiS_X said:

Does the laptop come with SSD by default? Or it's a manual upgrade?

 

[genexis_x]

Should be fine. BTW, you got the PM981 which runs very hot. Just take a note on it

 

Can you check the display ID? Go to Device Manager > monitors > double click 'Generic PnP monitor' > go to 'details' > open 'property' and select 'hardware IDs'. Take a screenshot

[Islam Soliman]

9 minutes ago, GeneXiS_X said:

Should be fine. BTW, you got the PM981 which runs very hot. Just take a note on it

 

Can you check the display ID? Go to Device Manager > monitors > double click 'Generic PnP monitor' > go to 'details' > open 'property' and select 'hardware IDs'. Take a screenshot

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[Islam Soliman]

21 minutes ago, GeneXiS_X said:

Should be fine. BTW, you got the PM981 which runs very hot. Just take a note on it

 

Can you check the display ID? Go to Device Manager > monitors > double click 'Generic PnP monitor' > go to 'details' > open 'property' and select 'hardware IDs'. Take a screenshot

I'm sorry but what is PM981?   edit: I have made my search that's the SSD.

 

I think the screen is the 300nits 72% 

[genexis_x]

1 hour ago, Islam Soliman said:

PM981

Basically a Samsung 970 EVO for commercial SSD (not consumer SSD)

1 hour ago, Islam Soliman said:

I think the screen is the 300nits 72% 

Please do me the favour, I wanted to know the exact panel ID