Ddr3 ram recommendations please

[DFBrews]

Have a dell m4700 running windows 10 pro at 32 bit in process of upping to 64bit as we speak I am going to be upgrading the ram from 4gb to 32gb and installing a ssd or the fire cuda from seagate as well. Is the simplest route to just grab the crucial and move on? Or any other brands that have a good reputation? Thanks in advance

[BushMasterBoy]

Might read this first

http://en.community.dell.com/support...518/t/19513591

[DFBrews]

I have the quad chip already checked that. My concerns are space seeing as it is a laptop a monster in form factor but still a laptop

with some of the fancy heat sink Ram pucks I don't know if they will fit or not. I am reading as much as I can find but know there are is a lot of knowledge on the forum

[Delfuego]

Samsung, Kingston, Crucial are all good. I would put 32gb in, it is a waste (unless you are running Hyper-V, VMware, 3DX rendering). 16gb will do everything you need. Match pairs are always best.

Performance on SSD is really just splitting hairs. A Samsung EVO will be plenty fast. >$200

Remember, computers are not guns, you will never get any of your money out of it. Whether a $4000 or $400 computer, they will all be worth $10 in a few years. I advise people to save upgrade money for the next machine and replace them every 3-5 years or so.

[DFBrews]

This was my penny saving upgrade haha my last one was made in 07.

I can definitely get into 16 gb much cheaper than 32
What about the firecuda? 2 tb for what I can get into a 500gb Samsung

[CS1983]

2TB of SSD is great, but when it goes, it's gone. I'd suggest looking into not storing everything on the SSD and having a few backup external HDDs for "can't lose" items, along with cloud storage of "definitely cannot lose" items.

[cableguy11]

2TB of SSD is great, but when it goes, it's gone. I'd suggest looking into not storing everything on the SSD and having a few backup external HDDs for "can't lose" items, along with cloud storage of "definitely cannot lose" items.

8gb is SSD the rest is a spinner...its one of those hybrid drives.

I have used Crucial in my last 4 or 5 builds and have had no issues. My windows 10 machine boots up super fast with 8gb ram and an I3. I am actually quite impressed and I hate windows.

[CS1983]

8gb is SSD the rest is a spinner...its one of those hybrid drives.

I have used Crucial in my last 4 or 5 builds and have had no issues. My windows 10 machine boots up super fast with 8gb ram and an I3. I am actually quite impressed and I hate windows.

Oh, interesting. How does it partition everything then, as far as OS needs?

[Delfuego]

I run straight SSD. I dont think the hybrid with be much faster than a normal SATA 7200, plus they will require more battery power. I upgrade a laptop my SSD, then put the old disk in a external case, now I have a 1tb USB 3.0 disk for storage or backup. Case cost +/-$30.

[Gman]

The hybrid drive is usually a single partition. An algorithm in the drive migrates the data that's used most frequently to the flash portion of the drive. It allows a little more responsive system, with the advantage of high capacity.

Personally, I don't need that much data on a portable system. I have a NAS for backups and storing the important stuff. The 1TB SSD in the MacBook Pro that I'm on right now is about 4 times larger than most of my systems. I also run VMs on the machine and trying to upgrade a Mac after the fact isn't much of a reality these days.

I'm moving our standard systems at work almost entirely to NVMe SSD storage. Faster than going through a disk controller.