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I am purchasing a custom laptop very soon. And i have been eyeing up a shell called a Lafite II 
I have a budget of £550-£650. Needs to be small, portable but with reasonable performance.
The CPU and RAM i have decided to go for are as follows:
Skylake i5 6200U 2.3Ghz
8GB Kingston 1600Hz
As title suggests above, it's the storage that im iffy about.
Storage options are:
Samsung SM951 256GB M.2 nVme
Samsung PM951 512GB M.2 nVme
Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SATA
Pretty much all these 3 drives will land me inbetween my budget.
My thinking with the M.2 drives is that, i could choose to have that in and later down the line if when needing more storage space, i could easily just pop a 2.5" SSD in.
However, i have worries about M.2 specially with nVme because i may be paying for a drive that will not really perform as nVme is advertised because of the CPU(i5 6200U) and maybe(not sure) because of the PCI-e on the actual board not really being compatible and hence the nVme drive just performing as a normal SSD.
Also, i've read when researching the drives that they get really hot and sometimes not performing as advertised(for example, performing even worse than a conventional 2.5" SSD). Also another is that, there is actually no support from Samsung on these M.2 drives as they are OEMs - so if they break, your stoofd.
Anybody had a chance on using/installing these drives?
Should i just not worry and get an M.2 drive?
--But which one, SM951 or PM951?
So any advice you can give me will be really helpful.
Thanks in advanced.
I have a budget of £550-£650. Needs to be small, portable but with reasonable performance.
The CPU and RAM i have decided to go for are as follows:
Skylake i5 6200U 2.3Ghz
8GB Kingston 1600Hz
Storage options are:
Samsung SM951 256GB M.2 nVme
Samsung PM951 512GB M.2 nVme
Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SATA
Pretty much all these 3 drives will land me inbetween my budget.
My thinking with the M.2 drives is that, i could choose to have that in and later down the line if when needing more storage space, i could easily just pop a 2.5" SSD in.
However, i have worries about M.2 specially with nVme because i may be paying for a drive that will not really perform as nVme is advertised because of the CPU(i5 6200U) and maybe(not sure) because of the PCI-e on the actual board not really being compatible and hence the nVme drive just performing as a normal SSD.
Also, i've read when researching the drives that they get really hot and sometimes not performing as advertised(for example, performing even worse than a conventional 2.5" SSD). Also another is that, there is actually no support from Samsung on these M.2 drives as they are OEMs - so if they break, your stoofd.
Anybody had a chance on using/installing these drives?
Should i just not worry and get an M.2 drive?
--But which one, SM951 or PM951?
So any advice you can give me will be really helpful.
Thanks in advanced.
