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Until roughly a month ago, I thought that SATA SSDs were the ultimate data storage devices. We've been Mac users for over a decade and, consequently, our primary machines are two MacBook Pros, which we've been using for years with no complaints. During the lockdown, however, we decided that we would endeavor to convert our modestly large audio and video collection to digital files for a "digital jukebox." Among some of these digital files are high-resolution audio files that can be quite large (some being over 700MB per file). Anyway, we've found that this project has put us somewhere we've never been before: we now have to archive a lot of data to keep our system data storage drives from filling up.
As some of our audio discs are in old formats, we were recently advised to employ software that only runs on PCs. As money is tight these days, we would like to make use of an HP ProBook 440 G8 that my wife sometimes uses for work purposes. This laptop PC has (1) USB-C port and (3) USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports on it...but the part that took me by surprise was what I found when I opened it up...In short, it had no HDD or SSD inside of it and, after doing some reading, I found out that the system storage was handled by a 22mm x 80mm PCB called an "PCIe NVMe m.2 2280 SSD."
Obviously, none of this comes as a surprise to most up-to-date PC people, but I wanted you to know our background as a point of reference for my silly questions.
As I've been reading, I've noticed that "modern" PC users seem to often refer to employing two separate storage devices in their systems. Of course, we, too, employ more than one drive, but the "secondary" drive, in our case, is mostly for archive storage purposes. The HP laptop that I just described presently has a small 256GB NVMe S.2 M.2 2280 SSD installed, but, considering that we're now filling up much larger drives, we've been researching 2TB NVMe SSDs for this laptop. Well, my personal research has illuminated the fact that many of the big name brands who market this type of NVMe SSD have recently been doing what is most often described as a "bait and switch," involving the use of inferior components being installed on their NVMe SSDs without the customer's knowledge. As this practice has been employed by most of the big names in the NVMe SSD world, including Samsung, I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to verify if the SSDs one purchases actually have the proper components installed? I mean, is this something that only occurred during a certain period of time? Perhaps involving only certain models? I don't mean to state the obvious, but I'd really hate to have done all of this reading/research predicated on electronics that aren't sold as advertised and/or tested.
In addition to the question about verifying "valid" NVMe drives, I'd also like to know if I'm missing something when it comes to employing more than one storage drive type with a PC. Once again, we've been Mac OS X users for over a decade, so please bear that in mind...but is there a way to actually operate a PC via an external SSD? If this is the case, perhaps we should be looking at external USB-C SSDs and moving away from questionable (and expensive) NVMe SSDs?
Thank you kindly for your time
As some of our audio discs are in old formats, we were recently advised to employ software that only runs on PCs. As money is tight these days, we would like to make use of an HP ProBook 440 G8 that my wife sometimes uses for work purposes. This laptop PC has (1) USB-C port and (3) USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports on it...but the part that took me by surprise was what I found when I opened it up...In short, it had no HDD or SSD inside of it and, after doing some reading, I found out that the system storage was handled by a 22mm x 80mm PCB called an "PCIe NVMe m.2 2280 SSD."
Obviously, none of this comes as a surprise to most up-to-date PC people, but I wanted you to know our background as a point of reference for my silly questions.
As I've been reading, I've noticed that "modern" PC users seem to often refer to employing two separate storage devices in their systems. Of course, we, too, employ more than one drive, but the "secondary" drive, in our case, is mostly for archive storage purposes. The HP laptop that I just described presently has a small 256GB NVMe S.2 M.2 2280 SSD installed, but, considering that we're now filling up much larger drives, we've been researching 2TB NVMe SSDs for this laptop. Well, my personal research has illuminated the fact that many of the big name brands who market this type of NVMe SSD have recently been doing what is most often described as a "bait and switch," involving the use of inferior components being installed on their NVMe SSDs without the customer's knowledge. As this practice has been employed by most of the big names in the NVMe SSD world, including Samsung, I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to verify if the SSDs one purchases actually have the proper components installed? I mean, is this something that only occurred during a certain period of time? Perhaps involving only certain models? I don't mean to state the obvious, but I'd really hate to have done all of this reading/research predicated on electronics that aren't sold as advertised and/or tested.
In addition to the question about verifying "valid" NVMe drives, I'd also like to know if I'm missing something when it comes to employing more than one storage drive type with a PC. Once again, we've been Mac OS X users for over a decade, so please bear that in mind...but is there a way to actually operate a PC via an external SSD? If this is the case, perhaps we should be looking at external USB-C SSDs and moving away from questionable (and expensive) NVMe SSDs?
Thank you kindly for your time
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