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June 11th, 2023 12:00

XPS 15 9570, 2TB SSD upgrade

XPS 15 9570

XPS 15 9570

Hi, Can anyone please advise the specs for the best SSD 2TB for my Dell XPS 15 9570 from 2018? Need to make my laptop faster and increase storage.
Thanks!

Luis

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June 11th, 2023 12:00

Any PCIe 3x4 drive will do fine -- so will a PCIe 4 drive, but the latter won't run at full speed.

Needs to be M.2 2280.

 

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June 11th, 2023 12:00

This is what I have
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June 11th, 2023 12:00

It depends on what  you now have in the system -- if it's an older, slower drive you may see a boost.  Most new drives are PCIe 4, which your system does not support at full speed, but you likely can max out the PCIe 3 interface the system does have.

 

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June 11th, 2023 12:00

Thank you for the quick reply.
Will I notice much difference on my laptop processing speed? I still use the factory SSD

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June 11th, 2023 13:00

That's a reasonably fast OEM drive -- I don't think you'll see anything major in performance difference between it and another PCIe 3x4 drive.

 

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June 11th, 2023 13:00

What is the writing speed of this one and how faster can it get with an updated one?

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June 11th, 2023 14:00

There's a benchmark for that drive here

https://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/hdd.php?hdd=Samsung%20PM981%20512GB%20NVMe&id=15163

As I have posted a couple of times, you may find a slightly faster drive but there won't be a major difference with anything you can use in that system -- the real jump comes at PCIe 4, for which you'll need a new notebook system -- yours cannot be retrofitted to run a drive at PCIe 4 speed.

 

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June 15th, 2023 04:00

There really isn't much you can do hardware-wise -- adding RAM is not going to speed things up much, if at all.

If you have never replaced the thermal pads that anchor the heatsinks to the CPU and GPU, that is the first thing to do.  It will allow the system to run cooler and quiet the fans.

If you're seeking a major performance boost, it's time for a new system.

 

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June 15th, 2023 04:00

Thank you for your patiente. You helped me! Kudos
What is the best thing I can do to improve my laptop speed? 2 Dimms of 32GB amountin to 64GB?
New fans? These seem to make a lot of noise already and I´ve cleaned them but temperature always high.
What else?

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June 16th, 2023 18:00

Can you direct me to where I buy those?

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June 25th, 2023 09:00

where do I buy thermal pads that anchor the heatsinks to the CPU and GPU

 

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