How to Choose your Laptops's Storage and System Memory

To get the best storage and memory for you laptop means understanding the storage types and their speed. The storage aviable in today's market laptops fall into three categories: the hard drives, the SATA solid-state drives (SSDs), and the PCI Express SSDs storage. That given sequence is the relative summary of their individual speed (slowest, faster, fastest) and ofcourse their relative cost (least to most expensive, that is in terms of cost per gigabyte).

In this generation of advance laptops, the fastest will use PCI Express SSDs. These are implemented as M.2 drives or soldered down to the motherboard, and top out in most configurations at 1TB. PCI Express describes the bus pathway that your data takes when using these drives, and it is often associated today with the term "NVMe," a protocol for making the most of PCI Express drives' speeds. Both of these are good information when looking for storage solutions.

The alternative to a PCI Express SSD is Serial ATA or SATA, which is perfectly serviceable in an SSD but is an older interface.

If you're looking to maximize real and perceived speed in a laptop, the boot drive should be an SSD, and preferably a PCI Express/NVMe one. If the laptop has a hard drive, it should be implemented as a secondary drive used for bulk storage. You're more likely to see such dual-drive arrangements in larger laptops.

Now for  the laptop memory or the RAM in the system, you just make sure you get enough for your typical everyday tasks without overpaying or underestimating. A memory of 8GB is the barest minimum we'd settle for in a power laptop, with a larger 16GB a better baseline. Well, you can get more laptop memory if you consistently make use of RAM-hogging content-creation apps like Adobe Photoshop. Nonetheless, if you're normally outfitting a tricked-out gaming laptop, a 16GB memory for your laptop ought to suffice.