So I have a 7 year old lenovo y500 with a 2.5"HDD and a 16gb Msata that acts as a Cache.
I was just getting ready to finally upgrade to new laptop and suddenly my full time job has turned into a part time job for at least the next year (thanks CV-19).
Anyway I'm now trying to put new life into my laptop and extend it out as best I can so I'm planning on trying to upgrade my SSD. The debate I am having is this.
Option 1 get a new SSD sata drive to replace my current and do a fresh install and start over. But when I do eventually get a new laptop put it in an external enclosure because it's unlikely any laptop I get next will have room for anything but nvme. (also would have to buy a big enough flash drive to put the windows install files onto it) Seems the most straightforward option but not sure i really need a 1 TB external drive in the future so maybe not a great long term investment
Option 2. Get a high-quality NVME and a external enclosure for it. Use that now with my current set up and do the video editing I'm having to do all on the external drive, deal with slow boot and loading times. Then when I get my next laptop I can get a cheaper model and immediately upgrade the SSD myself, and then turn the replaced SSD into my new external drive. (this saves me the effort of having to reinstall everything including windows and makes my purchase more future proof and external drive a bit smaller and easier to carry around)
Option 3. Get something like a 128-256gb Msata and replace the cache drive and make this the new boot drive and use the HDD for mass storage. Then find an enclosure to move this to as a small external drive in the future (this is the cheapest and maybe easiest option? as i don't have to transfer a lot of data anywhere)
I'm probably over thinking this and should just go with option 1, but I just wanted someone else's opinion.
I was just getting ready to finally upgrade to new laptop and suddenly my full time job has turned into a part time job for at least the next year (thanks CV-19).
Anyway I'm now trying to put new life into my laptop and extend it out as best I can so I'm planning on trying to upgrade my SSD. The debate I am having is this.
Option 1 get a new SSD sata drive to replace my current and do a fresh install and start over. But when I do eventually get a new laptop put it in an external enclosure because it's unlikely any laptop I get next will have room for anything but nvme. (also would have to buy a big enough flash drive to put the windows install files onto it) Seems the most straightforward option but not sure i really need a 1 TB external drive in the future so maybe not a great long term investment
Option 2. Get a high-quality NVME and a external enclosure for it. Use that now with my current set up and do the video editing I'm having to do all on the external drive, deal with slow boot and loading times. Then when I get my next laptop I can get a cheaper model and immediately upgrade the SSD myself, and then turn the replaced SSD into my new external drive. (this saves me the effort of having to reinstall everything including windows and makes my purchase more future proof and external drive a bit smaller and easier to carry around)
Option 3. Get something like a 128-256gb Msata and replace the cache drive and make this the new boot drive and use the HDD for mass storage. Then find an enclosure to move this to as a small external drive in the future (this is the cheapest and maybe easiest option? as i don't have to transfer a lot of data anywhere)
I'm probably over thinking this and should just go with option 1, but I just wanted someone else's opinion.