m17 R3, RTX 2070, 16 ram, editing 4k video or higher

Hi @47Buttons  gaming laptops run hot and editing large 4K or higher videos will be time consuming when installed system RAM is not fast and the OS (C:) drive is not an ultrafast M.2 NVMe.

When using power hungry applications, Dell recommends installing a new battery every 12 months, or when battery charge drops below expected use duration. Consider installing a more powerful battery. 

Advocate increasing virtual RAM when an application requires more RAM to work as intended and exceeds the installed system RAM.  On Windows 10, increasing virtual RAM on the (ultra fast M.2 NVMe) solid state drive is designed to remove and temporarily store less frequently used modified pages allocated in system RAM (random-access memory) to the OS (C:) drive's virtual RAM. Using this approach allows the operating system to prioritize faster physical memory for more frequent processes and applications, improving the overall performance and preventing the device from locking up in the event it runs out of system RAM. 

How to change virtual RAM size on Windows 10. 

For example: Our 17 R5 fast system RAM is 32GB.

Our OS (C:) 1TB ultra fast M.2 NVMe SSD virtual RAM range is 32 to 64GB. 

If I were to guess what his drives are since his system still has the PCIe Gen 3 interface it would be the Samsung 970 Evo and depending on what storage capacity you want will either increase performance or leave it as it is.

Hi @47Buttons  recommend looking at installing an ultrafast M.2 PCIe Gen3.0 x4  NVMe drive. (Your system does not support the currently new PCIe Gen4.0 x4 drive.) There are 12 NVMe options in the comparison list and your selection will be influenced by your requirements. 

Using the NVMe with ultrafast read/write virtual RAM was high ranking in our requirements. What really matters is real world read/write performance, and we have not seen a NVMe drive that performs anywhere near their marketed speeds. Many reviewers have paid-for bias. 

So we purchased a well-known brand 1TB drive with a 5 year guarantee, with max read speeds and reliability, at a reasonable (discounted) price. 

Two 1TB drives were purchased and cloned because No.1 OS (C:) drive is in daily use and No.2 OS (C:) drive is the disaster recovery drive, that is swapped-in to get our system up and running within minutes. The Laptop OS (C:) drive only has a copy of current work files.

Just in case the laptop gets stolen, etc. all the original master work files are on our home's NAS (network-attached storage) that are only accessed when putting a specific subject matter file temporarily on the Laptop's fast OS (C:). Solid State Drives (SSD) have fast read/write speeds and Hard Disk Drives (HDD) retain archived data for longer. The actual life of drives should be included in disaster recovery options.