Question: I am thinking to add a faster/better performant M.2 SSD. Currently, I only have a 2.5″ SSD. All my OS stuffs and documents are in it. I am thinking to transfer all the OS to the M.2 SSD, but it requires quite a bit of work.
So I am wondering if having a faster SSD to store OS stuffs is going to increase the speed and performance of my laptop at all? What does it affect? If it makes only copying files faster, I don’t see a need of doing that.
Answer: I have a Desktop computer with a decent 1TB Samsung regular SSD drive. It starts very quickly and runs very quickly. ?It used to have hard drives and the difference in startup and run is very noticeable.
I have a Laptop that came with a 1 TB NVMe drive in an M.2 slot. It has always been very fast.
I frequently put the laptop on a table across from the Desktop. Once a Feature update has downloaded (Desktop on wired Ethernet ; Laptop on wireless), the installation of the update including restart is pretty much the same.
You might see some speed increase if you upgrade, but it may not be really noticeable.
You might leave this project to the next computer.