I wanted to let you know that you were right, that one did not work and is going back to amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VVNGYFV?
Came today and works great. I feel a little silly having spent ~50 in pursuit of save files for Diddy Kong Racing and Timsplitters 2, but hey I've spent more on dumber shit. They're both hard games I wasn't finished with.
So from what you have described, it seems like the bottleneck is the HDD write speed, which especially on older drives can be slow. You have a couple of options here
Use some sort of cloud provider to store everything from your SSD into the cloud, then download it all back to your new SSD. If you aren't already paying for a cloud subscription, then this will cost you some money and depending on your current internet speed may just be slower than transferring the files to the HDD
Buy an adapter(like this) that would allow you to plug the new SSD into the laptop before inserting into the laptop and do the transfer from there
If you don't want to, or are unable to do either, you may just have to do the long transfer to the HDD. I've done this before by just starting the transfer before I go to sleep and then it should be done before you wake up in the morning.
The connector is M.2, the protocol is NVMe (or PCI-E / PCI Express.)
You may be confusing SD card readers with "SSD card readers" which don't exist. You can get an external USB housing for the SSD such as https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Converter-Portable-Support-Windows/dp/B07VVNGYFV . I can't guarantee that one works, just the first link I clicked.
Assuming both are NVMe, it might be easier to just drop $20 on a USB to NVMe adapter, connect the new drive as a USB device, use the Samsung tool or a 3rd party tool to clone it directly from internal drive to the now external 2TB 970, and lastly once it says it's done cloning, shutdown and swap the drives so the 970 is now the internal drive and you can use the 512GB as a new external once you are sure the migration was a success.
I did this with my wife's laptop a few months back.
I bought this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07VVNGYFV
Only used it twice, but so far so good.
NVME to USB 3.1 on a Pi4 is ~$20 on Amazon. I have one on the way to test. I’m currently booking off a SATA m.2, but think NVME will be faster. I had some 1TB m.2 NVME SSDs lying about, so I did not count that in the cost.
I use these one-piece USB M.2 NVME adapters: ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07VVNGYFV/ ) and have used them with many different M.2 NVME drives. I've put intel optane modules, Samsung pro drives, sabrent rockets, WD black, WD blue, Sandisk, SK Hynix in these adapters. No problems.
They are a bit wide but not that tall so they will fit in a stacked USB configuration with something above or below, but in side by side USB slots they might not fit directly next to other devices. Depends on spacing. I use them to quickly move large files between locations so it's all sustained writes/reads in my case. I usually get 300-500MB/s sustained depending on the spec of the USB port it's plugged into.
It does get a little hot to the touch but I haven't had any problems due to heat.
you can get an M.2 use the USB just fine to run games and transfer back n forth. I use a straight NMVE to USB adapter... kinda like this one
https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Converter-Portable-Support-Windows/dp/B07VVNGYFV/ref=sr\_1\_6?dchild=1&keywords=nvme+to+usb&qid=1625670753&sr=8-6
>I am going to do a Fresh Install of Win10 Pro *after wiping the drives*
I pulled the 512 nvme out of my Titan and replaced it with 265 for the os, (I have 4 in total). I bought an nvme usb drive and use it in there now the warranty is up.
You can try to put the drive into an appropriate M.2 USB adapter. Make sure it's suitable for NVMe SSDs, most USB M.2 adapters are for SATA, they're not interchangeable. Here's an example of an appropriate device, but many more exist.
Similar to /u/woodburyman I use this NVMe to USB adapter for my clones: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07VVNGYFV/
I boot up with Hiren's Boot USB and use the tools on there for cloning and partition changes.
The USB-C adapter would be a lot faster but most of the laptops I deal with seem to only have the one USB-C port which is where the power charger goes into.
You can use a USB adapter to turn the drive into an external so you can pull the data off it onto another PC.
Something like this https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Converter-Portable-Support-Windows/dp/B07VVNGYFV.
Look at a few different ones and find one that you're sure will work with your drive. I don't know much about NVMe drives so I don't know if they differ between models or not.
You can buy a USB to NVME adapter (this is the one we have) to clone the old one, or if you want faster system performance, use a USB flash drive or SD card to make a windows 10 boot stick - use the windows 10 media creation tool on microsoft's website, which will download a windows 10 installer - you can choose whether to use it for your current pc or another - choose another, and it'll turn an external device into a windows 10 installer. once all that is done, plug that into ur laptop, boot from the usb stick, and clear ur partitions, and you'll be able to install windows 10 fresh - note that this will wipe all ur data, which will still be on ur old ssd tho
Here are what I do to upgrade to 2TB NVMe SSD on my 9500:
- Download & install Macrium Reflect 7 (free)
- Clone the hard drive using a NVMe-USB adapter (~$20)
- After cloning, open the computer & swapped out the SSD
- Then go back to Macrium and extend the partition to have more space, otherwise, you still only have the original SSD's size (125GB).
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Using this technique, you don't have to worry about reinstall Windows, reinstall apps, set all settings again, etc.. Cloning is making a mirror image! Easy peasy.
I found out the hard way that the typical disk clone programs (Macrium Reflect, Easus Todo Backup) fail on the Surface Pro X. The programs will install, but they give errors when you try to clone the drive. I pushed ahead and tried to clone anyway, and I had to re-install Windows from scratch.
I was able to clone my 256gb SSD to a 1tb SSD in the Surface Pro X, without re-installing Windows. It took three things:
The steps on this page worked for me: https://dancharblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/upgrade-sl3-or-spx-to-1tb/
The basic steps:
It can be done!
Give a try to clonezilla, but before you need an adapter to read the ssd stick for sure!
About the adapter, something like this should be good: https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Converter-Portable-Support-Windows/dp/B07VVNGYFV/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=usb+to+m2+ssd+adapter&qid=1595704662&sr=8-3
Good luck!
>This is pretty much mostly for gaming so I don't feel like I need 32 gb
If you play AAA stuff, and you don't want to close your web browser to game, for the next 7 years... 32 GiB is called for, I think.
>About the ssd, how about getting 1 m.2 drive and 1 2.5" ssd, and leaving one m.2 slot for later expansion as they are eventually getting cheaper and better?
Could work. For what it's worth, if you're willing to do a do-si-do, an adapter to temporarily connect a 3rd NVMe m.2 is not especially expensive, so occupying both m.2 slots is not a big problem.
My suggestion would be to buy the biggest disk(s) that have reasonable $/GB, but the smallest number of disks that are sufficient for the data you have now and in the near future. Like, a single 2 TB NVMe would be ideal, if you can get away with it. Unfortunately, consumer m.2 NVMe doesn't seem to go bigger than 2TB, and the single-enterprise-disk option is expensive.
And don't forget to budget for an external mechanical HDD, for backups, if you don't already have one.
>I'm trying to build a rig that would last at least 7 years without having to upgrade
Waiting for the next GPU releases to decide is definitely the right idea here. Because historically, 7 years would be an excessively long time to stay on the same GPU, and it would make far more sense to buy an upper-midrange GPU and plan to replace it later. Like, if you had a top-of-the-line Nvidia from 7 years ago... you'd have a GTX 680. The midrange-and-upgrade strategy also makes the whole machine cheaper, because you can use a smaller power supply.
But, if you consider how unimpressive the GTX 20 series release was for price/performance, and how they just added more perf for higher prices at the top end, it's possible that GPU development has run out of low-hanging fruit. Possibly, in 7 years the best you'll be able to get is GPU that's 2x as fast, for 1.5x the price because it has 2x as many transistors on it.
If you had a top-of-the-line CPU from 7 years ago... you'd still have a reasonably capable CPU. The future of GPUs might look like that.
Nvme to usb adapter https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Converter-Portable-Support-Windows/dp/B07VVNGYFV
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Luckily, the 512 GB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD is replaceable and recoverable. You confirm that the laptop is dead? It won't turn on? The motherboard could be dead.
If you want to recover data from the storage drive, you can do so with an NVMe M.2 SSD to USB adapter. The adapter basically turns the SSD into a glorified flash drive.
You could try something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Converter-Portable-Support-Windows/dp/B07VVNGYFV
yeah... any cheap adapter like that will work.. something like this should work too.
That’s great thanks any point in using a nvme + adapter such as this as my boot?