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M.2 vs 2.5"

Laptop Request

I am not specifically asking for a laptop, just a concept explained. With the ever-evolving technology, and now Intel's new 12th gen CPUs, I was wondering if for a 15.6" non-gaming laptop with two drives, would it be better to have a double M.2 2280 NVMe, or one M.2 and one 2.5"?

Am I correct in assuming that the double M.2 would be more future proof, possibly a premium build, while the M.2 + 2.5" would be better if you already own a 2.5" disk from before, whether that be a large HDD for media or just the main SSD you'd transfer from your old laptop, and possibly these laptops are cheaper in price.

So if you're starting fresh and you wanted 2 drives, which combo would you go for?

Posted Jan 2, 2023, 2:16 PM UTC

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Mandizer•

It depends on the user requirments if the user works with large size files like 4k video editing mostly the answer will be M.2 ssd even if id the 2.5" is already available from previous device.

Any way I don't think that purchasing a 2.5" hard drive is still common these days specially if we are talking about 2.5" HDD's, noting that there are many M.2 drives which are sold at reasonable prices.

It's hard to go back once you get used to the Nvme/M.2 ssd speed, at the end as mentioned earlier it totally depends on the requirments.

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NeatPicky310•

In a very short and oversimplified view, m2 is better.

The real answer is a lot more complicated as it depends on what protocol m2 is running on and flash memory speed and CPU PCIe lanes and other PCIe and thunderbolt devices. But most of those are not important to the user and you just need to know M2 is the future.

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FrequentWay•

2 M.2 SSDs. better speed and high speed capacity storage.

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