Will This "Upgrade" Make My New Laptop Performance Really Bad?

seraphim2017 on 08/07/2023 - 19:05
Last edited 08/07/2023 - 19:18

I've got a new yoga 7 7735u arriving in a couple of weeks, which comes with a 512 GB SSD M.2 2242 PCIe Gen4 TLC.

My current laptop has a 1TB Kingston A2000 SSD in it. As this is only a 3x4 lane drive not 4x4 lane (no idea if that's correct terminology), will the laptop be noticeable slower/more laggy?

Is it worth buying (another) SSD that's 4.0 to get a performance boost, or will other things bottleneck the laptop way before I max out the drive speeds?

Being an ozbargainer, I'd rather repurpose my existing drive that buy another if I can.

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Comments

  • Hybroid on 08/07/2023 - 19:11
    +7

    The straight answer is you won't notice a real world difference between 2,200 MB/s and 5,500 MB/s for daily use.

    You may do if constantly transferring huge files and/or benchmarking the drive wherein sustained speed performance helps. But regular use? Not really.

    • seraphim2017 on 08/07/2023 - 19:21

      Thanks! My current one has never seemed too "slow" to me (then again, it's a ryzen 4500u Acer aspire), and I'm less bothered about artificial benchmarking than general os and app responsiveness for office and low level gaming (integrated graphics after all!). I figure the larger quick enough drive will be more useful than a tiny faster drive.

  • Dtnightmare1 on 08/07/2023 - 19:24
    +2

    From my experiences with a wide range of gen3/4 nvmes you'll only notice a difference when transfering a hell of a lot of files and very large files but it will be minimal and not worth the money. Unless ofcourse you do those things a lot.

  • dcep on 08/07/2023 - 21:18
    +1

    your a2000 has dram cache so probably better a better ssd than that if it's a dram-less gen4

  • CodeXD on 08/07/2023 - 23:45

    Being an ozbargainer, I'd rather repurpose my existing drive that buy another if I can.

    Isn't Kingston A2000 SSD 2280? There might not even be enough physical space to replace a 2242.

    The numbers relate directly to the physical size of the SSD.

    Your new laptop's SSD is 22 mm wide and 42 mm long, so it is labeled as 2242. Double check that your existing one is 2242 but I think it could be 22 mm wide and 80 mm long (2280)

    • seraphim2017 on 09/07/2023 - 07:39

      The slot is a 2280 but has an adaptor to fit the factory 2242 drive (apparently) according to teardown reviews. But it can only fit a single sided drive in of up to 80mm.

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