laptop upgrade

[simmo.3]

hi all,
thinking of doing a little bit to my lenovo legion y530 laptop.
it has one 4gb stick of ddr4 @ 4266mhz thinking of going to 8gb. does have to be 4266 again or ok to go faster?
do you think corsair or kingston or ?

it has a 256 ssd, looking to get a 500 ssd, looking at samsung evo, ?

also can you recomend the best free software to clone the old drive? and what cable to do the job.

i dont game on the laptop, it uses over 6gb of ram doing what i do.
any advice would be great and links to parts would be good,

thanks guys.
simmo

 

[mickyflinn]

I doubt the memory is 4266 MHz more likely it's 2666mhz but ideally get the same speed, brand type should matter if your replacing or adding but if adding maybe get the same


Personally would get a larger SSD.