Here's my latest computer delimma... my personal laptop.
Currently my main personal laptop is a Dell Latitude E6430 almost fully optioned out. Runs great... but the SSD I have in it is getting a bit small... actually, it's been a bit small, but I'm tired of having to move crap to external devices/server space. Currently I have a 120GB Intel 520; I run dualboot of Arch x64 and Windows 7.
This weekend, since I'm moored up in Canada with nothing else to really do (yay work), I decided to go SSD shopping (both brick and mortar and online)... and while prices have fallen, to get a bigger SSD, is going to cost me at least $60 for a decent unit (3D NAND, If I'm buying new I want to get something good). Ok, fair enough. $60 or so (probably $75+ after shipping), and we're fixed... but...
From what I'm seeing SATA is a dying standard. With rotating media (DVD/Blue-ray and HDDs) going to the wayside (for laptops at least), from what I've been reading, SATA will go poof with it, mainly because PCIe based standards (NVME/M2) are better suited to the parallel access that SSDs allow. Keeping that in mind, one though I'm considering is NOT upgrading the SSD and instead saving up for something new enough to put an M2 drive in, most likely a Dell Latitude E5470 (or similar). Those run around $250+ at the moment... and that's without the M2 drive or any options I'd add (backlit keyboard, Wifi/CPU/RAM upgrades, etc). It would be a long term option.
Other than the speakers (which I've given up on; replaced them once only to fail again soon after), there isn't anything physically wrong with the E6430... it's just getting a bit old (going on 6 years) and while I don't care to be bleeding edge on hardware (I'd go broke), I also want be at least a little bit future proof.
Thoughts?
Currently my main personal laptop is a Dell Latitude E6430 almost fully optioned out. Runs great... but the SSD I have in it is getting a bit small... actually, it's been a bit small, but I'm tired of having to move crap to external devices/server space. Currently I have a 120GB Intel 520; I run dualboot of Arch x64 and Windows 7.
This weekend, since I'm moored up in Canada with nothing else to really do (yay work), I decided to go SSD shopping (both brick and mortar and online)... and while prices have fallen, to get a bigger SSD, is going to cost me at least $60 for a decent unit (3D NAND, If I'm buying new I want to get something good). Ok, fair enough. $60 or so (probably $75+ after shipping), and we're fixed... but...
From what I'm seeing SATA is a dying standard. With rotating media (DVD/Blue-ray and HDDs) going to the wayside (for laptops at least), from what I've been reading, SATA will go poof with it, mainly because PCIe based standards (NVME/M2) are better suited to the parallel access that SSDs allow. Keeping that in mind, one though I'm considering is NOT upgrading the SSD and instead saving up for something new enough to put an M2 drive in, most likely a Dell Latitude E5470 (or similar). Those run around $250+ at the moment... and that's without the M2 drive or any options I'd add (backlit keyboard, Wifi/CPU/RAM upgrades, etc). It would be a long term option.
Other than the speakers (which I've given up on; replaced them once only to fail again soon after), there isn't anything physically wrong with the E6430... it's just getting a bit old (going on 6 years) and while I don't care to be bleeding edge on hardware (I'd go broke), I also want be at least a little bit future proof.
Thoughts?
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