What if my 2011 Toshiba A660 does not have nvme? Am i limited to sata3 adapter for nvme? This "tutorial" looks like - if you want your car to go faster, fill it with high octane gasoline. Modern high-end laptops of course have opportunities for much improves, but what with laptops that have to be upgraded instead of making top model from middle-end model when you realize you forgot to buy top model?
Using a sata3 adapter for an nvme ssd would limit the nvme ssd to sata3 speed, hence it would make more sense to just get a sata3 ssd. If your current hard drive is fairly accessible, swap it out with a sata3 ssd. You'll love the fast bootup time and other aspects of the ssd versus the prior spinning hard drive. If your laptop has a CD drive, you might be able to find an optical drive caddy for it. WIth that, you could make a sata3 ssd your boot drive, and move your old hard drive to the caddy and use it as a second drive for data. (A good option if you don't use the CD drive very often or at all.)
@@eos6935 ok if I'm understanding you, one can swap out an optical drive with a caddy/enclosure for an NVMe. Is that not correct? Assumably since the enclosure will plug directly into the PCIe bus, there will not be any decline in performance. Is that correct?
Sorry, but that's not correct. The optical drive replaced with a caddy will hold a 2.5" sata ssd (not an Nvme M.2 form factor card), and it plugs into the sata port on the motherboard where the optical drive did.
Hi! I did the cloning following the exact same steps using Reflect Free but once it was done, I noticed that the total size of the new disk is 245 GB less. So I used TreeSize to find out which files were not cloned. It looks like there's something called "System Volume Information" which is exactly 245 GB which is missing in the new disk. Can I still swap the SSD's or what should I do next?
Thank you so much! I was afraid I would mess up and lose everything but it was incredibly easy and worked liked a charm. Can't thank you enough!
Wow thanks, this is really helpful!
It's easy like that, the point is when you don't have and don't want to buy an nvme enclosure how you go around doing it.
Needed this .. perfect! Tyvm!
Great information. Thanks.
Helpful video
I see it brings over everything but does that include drivers?
I'm getting one of these enclosures
What if my 2011 Toshiba A660 does not have nvme? Am i limited to sata3 adapter for nvme? This "tutorial" looks like - if you want your car to go faster, fill it with high octane gasoline. Modern high-end laptops of course have opportunities for much improves, but what with laptops that have to be upgraded instead of making top model from middle-end model when you realize you forgot to buy top model?
Using a sata3 adapter for an nvme ssd would limit the nvme ssd to sata3 speed, hence it would make more sense to just get a sata3 ssd. If your current hard drive is fairly accessible, swap it out with a sata3 ssd. You'll love the fast bootup time and other aspects of the ssd versus the prior spinning hard drive.
If your laptop has a CD drive, you might be able to find an optical drive caddy for it. WIth that, you could make a sata3 ssd your boot drive, and move your old hard drive to the caddy and use it as a second drive for data. (A good option if you don't use the CD drive very often or at all.)
@@eos6935 ok if I'm understanding you, one can swap out an optical drive with a caddy/enclosure for an NVMe. Is that not correct? Assumably since the enclosure will plug directly into the PCIe bus, there will not be any decline in performance. Is that correct?
Sorry, but that's not correct. The optical drive replaced with a caddy will hold a 2.5" sata ssd (not an Nvme M.2 form factor card), and it plugs into the sata port on the motherboard where the optical drive did.
@@eos6935 thanks
Can you also do this off of a thumb drive as well if money's kinda tight?
You can buy an ssd to usb adapter for 10 bucks
Hi! I did the cloning following the exact same steps using Reflect Free but once it was done, I noticed that the total size of the new disk is 245 GB less. So I used TreeSize to find out which files were not cloned. It looks like there's something called "System Volume Information" which is exactly 245 GB which is missing in the new disk. Can I still swap the SSD's or what should I do next?
i have the same one and it doesnt pop up on my pc?? have a asrock z590 pro
What happens if i upgrade the m.2 sdd without windows 10, will i still be able to power on the laptop and reinstall it again?
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