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darrey

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Hello

I am looking to splash out on a new gaming laptop.

Chassis & Display
Defiance Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD 144Hz 72% NTSC LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™ i7 Six Core Processor 8750H (2.2GHz, 4.1GHz Turbo)
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair 2666MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2070 Max-Q - 8.0GB GDDR6 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1
1st Storage Drive
1TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA 2.5" SSD, (upto 560MB/sR | 540MB/sW)


My question is around storage, would it be better performance to stick with the one storage drive or split it and have an m.2 SSD drive as well. I don't need massive amounts for storing photos etc as I have my own NAS drive. My current laptop has a 480gb SSD drive of which 167gb is free.

thank you
 
Oussebon

Oussebon

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Rather than 'split it;' between two smaller drives, a single larger drives often makes more sense.

If you do work on the system that benefits from multiple drives e.g. photo/video editing projects, you can add another drive yourself any time you want. However, if you buy 2 smaller drives now, you use up one more slot, making it less cost effective to increase storage later on should you need to.

Is this laptop for photo editing?

Rather than the Seagate SSD, go with the SX6000 from the M.2 SSD Drive menu as it's a similar price but faster

Be aware that the 2070 Max-Q is barely any faster than a 2060 (non max-Q). Like ~6%. You may want to consider a different chassis that has the 'full' lapop 2070 if GPU horsepower matters greatly. If it's not critical to have every last drop of GPU performance, stick to the 2060 in the Defiance.
 
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