Curious if anyone has gone all in on a single brand combo? I’m thinking of using Samsung for both Ram and storage to try to minimize any problems.
Just installed 2x8GB Hynix RAM and 500GB P31 SSD on the i5 DIY I just received yesterday. Everything just worked, very happy with the combo.
I promise you it won’t matter
If you have a problem with your SSD it’s not going to be because you went with Samsung for your ram and Western Digital for the SSD or whatever
Just get good quality components to start and it’ll be fine
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There is zero reason to do this, unless they’re offering some manufacturer combo rebate. Hell, even with among SSDs in the datacenter, we’ve been moving to more of a mix-and-match deployment. Just to reduce the odds that we have a lot of simultaneous failures.
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I just put in a Crucial P5 Plus 2TB (running the most current firmware) into my batch 4 i71165G7 with a fresh install of Windows 11 with the Framework drivers. I installed the Crucial Storage Executive and activated the Momentum Cache, which was giving me issues logging in from Sleep Mode. Once I turned off Momentum Cache, everything was working fine.
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I’ve got the Sabrent 4TB installed in my newly arrived DIY and it is working well so far (after two days). This is after a terrible six months of trying to get it to work in my HP Spectre x360. Constant crashes in Windows which I couldn’t resolve. I haven’t tried pushing it hard, but under normal use it seems to be working just fine under Windows 11. Makes me just love the Framework as the option to buy it sans any storage means I could reuse my Sabrent and salvage what was seeming like a very expensive mistake (buying the 4TB NVME).
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I just wanted to share my experience here, I was trying to setup my framework with the Crucial P5 2TB I ordered (non plus). Windows 11 + Ubuntu 21.10 dual boot with encryption. The setup went well after I replaced one of my ram stick which was deffective. But now I’m having resume from sleep error (this kind: Solid state drive/NVMe - ArchWiki) I tried pretty much everything I could find online for a couple days (updating firmware, disabling APST, software iommu, deep sleep mode, reinstalling everything). Nothing fixed the problem, everytime the laptop resumes from sleep the disk is mounted read-only with hundreds of IO errors on dmesg.
I ended up trying the exact same ubuntu installation (same encryption method, etc…) on another SSD I had lying around (a Samsung 970 Evo 500GB) and did not notice any problem with the resume here. So I tend to believe there is an issue with this SSD or at least a compatibility problem with the motherboard. I am currently ordering a new SSD (Samsung 980 Pro 2TB) as a remplacement, I’ll copy everything there and see if it works better.
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I can thoroughly recommend the WD Black SN850 for use with Windows 11. Hits nearly the 7000MBps max no sweat. I got a 1TB one and slapped a 1mm thermal pad I had laying around on top to mate it to the keyboard plate. No issues with heat. I’ve done some benches and I think 50 degrees was the hottest it got.
I was going to put in a WD RED Nvme for the extra endurance but that was out of stock when I went to buy and the Samsung 980 Pro (my next choice) went up £20 on the day, so the third choice SN850 won out. I’m happy.
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For the record after switching from the Crucial P5 to the Samsung 980 Pro (copied byte for byte) I had no problem with the sleep/resume this time. So definitely +1 for the 980 and -1 for the P5.
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Is your Samsung 980 Pro with heatsink? Thanks for sharing.
No heatsink in my case, AFAIK there’s not much room for it anyway.
I rarely use it intensively so I don’t notice any throttling.
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