Reddit mentions of Samsung 850 EVO - 1TB - M.2 SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-N5E1T0BW)

They also have the m.2 version for the same price

EDIT: This is the same deal that will be available on Samsung's website tomorrow, it's just a day early on Amazon.

I like how you keep talking out of your ass. Here you go, size of a finger: https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-850-EVO-Internal-MZ-N5E1T0BW/dp/B01G844PC0

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No, the XPS 13 only has an M.2 slot.

Even if it were possible, that HDD has 4 to 75 times lower throughput than the SSD the XPS 13 ships with and on the order of 100 times higher latency. "Upgrading" to an HDD would simply give you an absolutely abysmal experience, especially for gaming. On top of the performance issues, HDDs are both extremely fragile and power hungry compared to SSDs, so you really don't want one in a laptop under any circumstances.

If you need more storage, you can either get a 1 TB M.2 SSD at five times the price of that HDD, or you could just get an external HDD and plug it in whenever you need it.

The Notebook 9 Pro uses a SATA3 M.2 SSD.

So you can buy a SSD like this:

Samsung 850 EVO - 1TB - M.2 SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-N5E1T0BW) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01G844PC0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_3NEyzb3TYXVZJ

Glad to help! For a long-term investnebt investment (wow, I must be tired), I'd recommend a 1TB Samsung 960 Evo, if you can swing the nearly $500 cost. If not, go for a smaller volume or for the previous generation. THe most bang for your buck will likely be the the 1TB 850 Evo, which is only $313 on Amazon right now, and if you have a Micro Center nearby, they'll match Amazon prices if whatever they're matching ships from and is sold by Amazon.com. (As opposed to a third-party seller on Amazon.) I also recommend supporting stores like Micro Center whenever possible - they're the last bastion of DIY computing with quality components and knowledgeable staff, that is also big enough to stock things like HTC Vive kits. I bought mine there for $719 because it was open box, and it works great! (And still has a 30-day return period, a standard manufacturer's warranty, and all of the free content they ship with.)

But back to m.2 drives, I own the 1TB 850 Evo because it was (and is) very cost effective for its size, the 960s hadn't quite come out yet when I bought it, and I had a second m.2 slot in my current laptop that didn't support NVME. (The startup volume does.)

Remember: NVME m.2 drives are faster than SATA III m.2, which are in turn theoretically slightly faster than SATA III 2.5" SSDs. (The drive itself is faster, but it's limited by the speed of the SATA III controller that's soldered on it, and of course the SATA III bus itself.) They're all SSDs; just of varying form factors, physical sizes, and power consumption. 2.5" drives are on their (slow) way out, however. They'll be around for a while for backwards-compatibility, and to support larger capacities, but they're already more expensive than their m.2 replacements, are slower, and are much larger. I would hazard a guess that even 2.5" HDDs are on their way out as well as the ease of manufacturing allows the cost of m.2 SSDs to get closer to HDD. Right now, the Evo line maxes out at 1TB and the Pro line at around 2TB (for a mere $1,300!) although Samsung is rumored to be releasing a 4TB m.2 960 Pro at some point in the future. They already have released a 4TB 2.5" in the 850 line, if you've got $1,500 lying around collecting dust.

Edit: Fixed a typo.

That's ridiculously and insanely overpriced! You basically paid $1000 dollars for an external M.2 1Tb hybrid drive, correct?

What Apple calls a Fusion Drive which is just a fancy way of saying it's a "Mechanical and an SSD." A Hybrid drive.

The link you posted was a 2TB "Fusion" drive benchmarked with Black Magic's Speed test with the one Gigabyte Stress Test option. Basically, the lowest and least demanding option this benchmark tool has. This is a quick snapshot of the same BlackMagic test I just did here. The 2017 iMac I have is the lowest base model. As you can see, I'm getting 1.2+ GB of read speed on a 1 GB file for the sort duration of the test. I think anyone with a 2017 iMac would get the same read results.

The whole point of a Apple's Hybrid drive is to showcase how quick it's I/O is at the forefront. Good luck doing anything of real world applications (i.e. 4k+ video editing, etc)..the benchmarks from the Tom's Hardware links above, show that fact too.

Not to mention...having a 2TB hybrid option on a 2017 iMac from your link...what would that upgrade cost? another $600+ for what...a 128GB SSD attached to a 2TB $60 mechanical drive? Fuck I hate Apple so much sometimes.

If you have a 2017 iMac, get a proper NVMe drive/enclosure and use your installed hybrid drive as scratch space.

You can pay $30 and get StarTech.com M.2 to SATA SSD Enclosure - USB 3.1
and then throw down $380 for a Samsung 850 EVO - 1TB - M.2 SATA
and you have the same exact thing the poster above me stated, for less than half the price.
However, you will have no where near the speeds of the two drives I listed prior.

Your posted link says "Up to 2600 MB/s Data Transfer Speeds." Correct it is! via the Thunderbolt 3 connection, infact they should of just stated the theoretical transfer speeds of the connection, which is at 4000 MB/S -
but the enclosed SSD in this product is of the M.2 variety. A single M.2 stick, you'll get ~600 MB's of I/O regardless of how fast your port is.

But for fuck sakes, if you have $1000 to spend..get one of the two listed NVMe items I listed above. Take complete advantage of your iMac's Thunderbolt 3, the port is capable of 4GB's a second of I/O! The drives I listed above have real world speeds of 2GB's a second and beyond.

Mind you, I'm not advocating any product...I'm just trying to understand all the options out there and passing on any little knowledge I have.

No worries. That doesn't really help but if you could show me where you found it I might be able to dig deeper.

For clarity, a PCI Express (or PCIe) slot is where expansion cards like your graphic card go. They are very fast when it comes to transferring data. A PCIe slot has "lanes" of data it can transfer. An x1 slot has one "lane". An x16 slot as 16 "lanes". Each lane can transfer 8Gb/s, if I remember correctly. That's some background info.

Now let's talk drive types. You've got Hard Disk Drives or HDDs, which come in different capacities and physical sizes. The two common sizes these days are 2.5" (usually found in notebook computers) and 3.5" (usually found in desktop computers). Larger physical size does not necessarily equate to larger capacity. Capacity is usually expressed in gigabytes (GB) or terabytes (TB). An HDD is one of the slowest forms of media commonly used today, but it's cheaper per GB/TB than solid state drives. (SSDs.) HDDs today use the SATA "bus", which is a specific way to transfer data. Your PCIe slots are another way to transfer data, but we'll come back to that.

Then you've got SSDs. The most common size still being produced is 2.5". These are much faster than HDDs. SATA SSDs are roughly 5 times faster than HDDs for reading and writing data. This means faster boot times for your system, faster game loads, and faster file copies.

A few years ago, M.2 SSDs came out. M.2 is not necessarily faster than 2.5" SSDs. This depends on which bus they use. If they use the SATA bus, they're around the same speed as 2.5" drives. That said, they're far smaller and use less power, so they're better for laptops and, frankly, everything else except for speed. That said, we also have M.2 NVMe drives. NVMe is a special type of memory (like your computer's RAM) that doesn't wipe itself each time you reboot your computer, which means it can be used for storage. Also like your RAM, it's very fast - about 4 times faster than a SATA SSD, which is about 5 times faster than an HDD. That means an M.2 NVMe SSD is roughly 20 times faster than an HDD.

Because of this faster speed, the SATA bus just isn't fast enough, so they use the same bus as your PCIe slots. They can use 4 lanes of the PCIe bus. They can be plugged into an M.2 slot if your motherboard supports them, but you can also buy an inexpensive PCIe card (which will fit into a PCIe slot, if you have one available) if your motherboard does not have an M.2 slot. Here's an example of a cheap card that I've found to work well. You mount the M.2 SSD to the card, then install the card in a PCIe slot. That said, if the only PCIe slot you have available is x1, it's kind of pointless to do so. Remember how I said it is roughly 4 times faster than a SATA SSD? And remember how I said it uses 4 PCIe lanes? Well, if you only use 1 PCIe lane, you're not going to see those same performance gains. At that point, you're better off using a SATA SSD. They do make them in the M.2 size/format. The Samsung 850 Evo is an example of a decent one. (Note: the 850 Evo is also made in the 2.5" size/format, so be cautious which one you buy if you go that direction. Also, note that many PCIe cards (and M.2 slots on motherboards, for that matter) only support NVMe/PCIe M.2 SSDs OR SATA M.2 SSDs but not both. The PCIe card I linked above will only work with NVMe/PCIe SSDs, for example. Therefore, the Samsung 850 Evo I just linked wouldn't be compatible with it.

I hope that helps to clarify. Feel free to respond with more info or questions if you have them.

Roger that -- going with the 72whr. I also asked u/brobama, but would I be able to simply add this 850EVO without removing the 500gb HDD, and then swap over the OS?

M.2 SSD is a thing and they are not that big.
It's expensive, so of course it wouldn't make sense putting 1TB M.2 SSD in Switch as it would raise the price way too much, but I'm just saying that you could probably fit 1TB SSD in Switch.