“Q. 1: What can the ram be upgraded to? On the Asus website it appears that each slot can be upgraded to 32 gb per ram slot for a total of 64 gb. Correct? Q.2: Why only 1 tb recommended upgrade on the m.2? Especially on a gen 4 slot. 1tb per each slot?”
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The laptop supports non-ECC, unbuffered DDR5-4800 SODIMM, a maximum of 16GB per slot. With 2 RAM slots available, maximum RAM supported is 32GB. It supports 2TB PCIe NVMe M.2 2280 SSD per SSD slot, 2 slots available.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Lucas if you our goal is maximum efficiency and not wasting your money- You will be hard pressed to find a task where you'll need more than the 16GB already on the LAPTOP, IF this were a desktop go for it, however do f realize you will be bottlenecked by power constraints. If you're doing the virtual 3D, then 32GB would be plenty, although the 16GB would be fine unless you have a ALOT of programs running at the same time. In regards to storage on the M.2 this is another efficiency factor and I will add that setting it to a RAID 0 Configuration would be more than fast enough for 2TB. If you need additional storage do keep in mind the device has many ports, such as Thunderbolt, where you can plug in an external m.2 enclosure and have your unnecessary files stored on it. Most people do not realize that the more an M.2 drive is filled up the slower it will actually perform. I hope I answered your questions with some helpful insight as well.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.That doesn't answer the user question of why they limit it to 1 TB per slot. ASUS themselves cannot explain why they've artificially implemented this limit as 8 TB SSDs have been available for more than a few years, and their prior model fx516pr does support two terabyte drives (I have one) and possibly larger. From what I've read, you should try to avoid filling an SSD drive more than 70% to avoid performance degradation... So you can get two one terabyte drives but you'll hit slight performance issues once you exceed about 700 gigs on either. At PCIe Gen 4 speeds I cannot imagine It would be that bad. It really depends on what kind of memory they use for the SSD. Tlc, SLC, QLC, etc and hybrids. "Most people do not realize that the more an M.2 drive is filled up the slower it will actually perform" But online benchmark tests show only a 2-4% speed difference when it's completely full. And I legit want an answer from ASUS as to why they implemented artificial bios limitations where the BIOS refuses to recognize anything over one terabyte for this model, and can't be bothered to put that in the user documentation that comes with it or in the specs published on their website or for Best Buy to warn potential customers because some people might find that unacceptable. Games are massive these days, and some people might want to run a virtual machine or two on there also.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.So...it is, in fact, 1TB per NVMe? I dont care about 2-4% of anything. Lifes too short. But can I use a TOTAL of 2 x 2TB NVMEs or not? What about externals? No 2.5" bay? I do not understand this. Its like only having 6 inventory slots in your bag in a game. Its dumb and after that scathing BIOS critique...sounds like its g
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