I Prepare to Get a Metabox P650re Laptop, Any Suggestions for SSD, Hard Drive and Rams?

Harrison on 19/04/2016 - 21:00

The P650RE comes with:
Intel Core i7-6700HQ
Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M with 3GB GDDR5 VRAM
8GB 2133Mhz DDR3 Memory 1x8GB, 4 slots Max 64GB

but no hard drive. Well they have upgrades to choose, but the price will be more expensive compared to buy my own.

I have read quite a lot posts saying Samsung 850 EVO will lose speed after few months, as it uses TLC NAND (no idea what it is..). I'm considering a Samsung 850 pro 512GB, which is currently ~273AUD on Amazon. Personally, I never used SSD before, so is 950 pro a solid choice, and is 850 EVO that bad?

For Ram, I have looked Corsair, but hardly found any laptop ram deal, only desktop ram. I'm thinking about 2x 8GB DDR4 Vengeance SODIMM. Any thoughts or any better deals?

Finally, can anyone recommend a hard drive?

Thanks.

Computing

Comments

  • scrimshaw on 19/04/2016 - 22:03

    Not sure where you got your information from.

    Samsung 850 Evo's are using TLC V-NAND, and the TLC part is what turns people off. What's different in 3d-stacked V-NAND is that the cells are much larger than ordinary TLC NAND. What does this mean? Write endurance shouldn't be an issue this time.

    Going by blog posts and tech sites, it seems the 840 Evo series were the bad batch, and 850 shouldn't have the same problem.

    if you're paranoid just get an Intel 535 as most intel drives have proven to be very reliable. They won't win speed tests though, since performance is not their focus, but they do offer reliability and international warranty.
    My Intel 525 is still kicking after 3.5 years and it's still in warranty (5 year total).

  • barginhunter11 on 19/04/2016 - 22:16
    +1

    Usually the upgrade packages from metabox are not bad

  • Hellfire on 20/04/2016 - 07:57

    I'm using g.skill ram in my metabox. Pretty happy with the results and great bang for buck. Can't go wrong with the Corsair either.

    I've had an 850 EVO 500GB for around 6 months and there has been no change in speed.

  • biozet on 20/04/2016 - 10:24

    intel ssd I've been extremely pleased with. can only compare with Kingston crucial and ocz. the others were probably a cheaper model.

  • cDNA on 20/04/2016 - 11:38

    I have a Samsung 950 Pro. If you have cash to blow, then buy the 512 GB Samsung 950 NVME SSD.

    This thing is blazing fast. Funnily enough I use my 256 GB Samsung 950 Pro as my boot device, because my 512 GB version is used for storing my large files.

    I'm totally over SATA SSDs. If you're not writing and copying >1 GB files often, then don't buy NVME SSDs. You might as well just get a SATA/mSATA/m.2 SATA SSD.

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