Don't make these mistakes with your NVMe SSD installation - NVMe tips and tricks
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- In this video, we're going to be talking about some of the most common mistakes that people make when installing a NVMe SSD, and how to avoid them. We're also going to be going over some of the best ways to measure the performance of a NVMe SSD, and dispel some of the myths about NVMe PCIe speeds.
If you're looking to install a NVMe SSD in your computer, then this video is for you! We'll cover everything from the basics of NVMe SSDs to the best way to install them. We'll also discuss some of the key factors to consider when choosing a NVMe SSD, and how to measure their performance.
The process for installing is really easy but may vary depending on your motherboard - some have heatsinks and different screw setups. It's also worth checking your manual as you may find that not all the drives work the same way.
NVMe installation is easy in theory but it's important to keep these things in mind:
- Use the top spot where possible to ensure x4 PCIe lanes
- Remove any plastic stickers from heatsinks and shields
- Use thermal pads to disperse heat
- If you install multiple drives this may reduce PCIe lanes available for your GPU
- You may need to change settings in your BIOS
- When installing in Windows use the Disk Management/Create a partition settings to set the drive up
- Always benchmark to make sure it's running as it should be.
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At Disk Formatting section of the video, it is good to be mentioned of 10-20% of the total amount of the disk space, to be left as unlocated for long reliability and data integrity of the SSD disks
You sound like the male counterpart to the female narrator in Baldur's Gate 3.
With a dab of Jack Sparrow.
He reminds me of Meoni, a FF14 youtuber.
You should check the MB manual for the bifurcation table which will detail PCIE lane sharing details.
It's not always the top slot. Some boards steal PCIe 5 lanes from the GPU in the top slot (M.2_1), reducing your GPU from x16 to x8. This would be less of an issue with a PCIe 5 GPU, but the current generation of GPUs are PCIe 4, and will lose performance. The correct slot for a gen 4 drive can be M.2_2, if the board routes the CPU's x4 lanes there.
thats why you dont buy intel, ryzen doesnt have this problem because it has 28 gen 5 lanes on the 7000 series
Its a good general rule of thumb, but if you are assembling your own PC motherboard up, then you can take the time to read some labels or the owners manual to see what is the proper slot for gen 4 support. Some boards even have the "dimm .2" slots next to the ram that allow 2 nvme similar to his pcie dual nvme card.
@@Wedgeman_Riley really random and kind of irrelevant to the current topic but thoughts on the x670e-a strix mobo? Trying to find a white one that would go with a 7950x especially after seeing your comment about the 28 gen 5 lanes.
@@Wedgeman_Riley that’s convenient, I have an x570 board with a 5800x and I was worried about adding another NVME
@@Sl0th150 the x670e gaming is a good motherboard if your willing to spend alot and will work well with the 7950x because it has good power delivery and enough gen 5 lanes to support a gpu and 2 nvme ssds at gen 5 which is the most the board supports and still has enough gen 5 lanes for any expansion cards like an elgato capture card
Love this! I just recently added my SSD to the wrong slot after checking in Samsung magician. I'm still new to the custom PC space, so videos like this help me out a ton! Thanks for the tips/guide!
Glad I could help!
This seems to be a very underrated channel, the content is excellent. One question I had and was confusing from the manual, is there a difference or something to be aware of when installing NVME double sided vs single. It mentions rubber grommets and seems slot dependent looking at a ASUS z790 manual. - Cheers
If it's double-sided then you'll need cooling on both sides. The rubber pads they often provide would buffer the metal on the bottom side from scratching the motherboard and preventing shorts. You won't see a double-sided NVMe unless you're using a very high capacity drive. All the 2TB and less I've seen are single-sided. You can tell by where the memory chips are. The back side will only have a sticker.
Just read the manual it will tell you which pci slot combo would work to get the maximum speed. It is actually better to read about it before buying the mobo ☺️.
Yup, and if you need to change the pciex16 to x8 so you can use the other slot. Had to figure this out on my server the other day. Also chipsets will usually tell you which have more m.2 slots and support full speeds.
I'm blown away how there's almost no videos on YT that dicuss single sided vs double sided NVMe drives, or the standoffs. Or the little rubber pad risers that come with Asus motherboards. My manual doesn't even mention any of this. What the heck
No offence, seriously. I'm not trying to be funny or snarky. I just don't trust anything about Armoury Crate, and I've never run into a real human who recommended that 'app' for anything.
Good video, otherwise.
As always a soothing and helpful guide for this nutty new technology. As some have mentioned, you should definitely be looking at your motherboard manual. I think people try to wing it too much and with m.2 you cannot do that. Many people don't know you will often lose the use of a few sata ports when using m.2 on certain slots as well. I check m.2 configuration before I even buy a motherboard so I know it will work for my need.
True
New? The tech is like 10 years old now
@@drunkhusband6257 some people are upgrading to a motherboard with NVME support for the first time. i got some used PC parts about 2 months ago and it was the first motherboard i owned with NVME support. i had no idea NVME slots would disable SATA ports on the motherboard. I had my optical drive plugged into sata port 6 and then installed my secondary NVMe SSD. then i wondered if my Bluray drive broke. nope. the NVMe being plugged in disabled SATA ports 5 and 6.
@@drunkhusband6257 Yup, my Z97 motherboard has an M.2 slot, definitely not as new as one would think.
Is it possible to boot into u.2 ssd if its inserted to an u.2 to m.2 adapter?@@TheProvokedPrawn
I will say, that you should check your motherboard's manual before installing. My Asus ROG Strix B650 mobo doesn't state that one slot is better than another. My old Asrock X370 Tai Chi directed me to put the sata drive in the top slot and the NVMe drive in the second slot for full speeds.
How did you install your m.2? Die you use the rubber pad to prevent the m.2 from bending?
I've got a Z690 AORUS PRO that has 4 M.2 connectors, 1x PCIe 4.0 x4/x2 SSD support) (M2A_CPU), 1x SATA and PCIe 4.0 x4/x2 SSD support) (M2C_SB), 2x PCIe 4.0 x4/x2 SSD support) (M2P_SB/M2Q_SB).
I've placed 3 x 1TB Samsung M.2 980 drives in the 3 PCIe M.2 slots, and setup a raid0, leaving the top slot (CPU) free, should I have installed one of the M.2s in the CPU slot? I'm not getting the speed the motherboard manufacturer claimed with 21035MB/s read speed.
Hey there. Can you tell me what "White Fans" you have in your case in the video? Thank you :)
I don't think you mentioned it, one thing I'd add is that for whatever reason, the retention screws for M.2 drives are exceptionally easy to strip. After stripping two of them, I went and bought an IFixIt kit. You don't really need to go that far, but you probably want to make sure you're using a Phillips #1 bit. Often it doesn't matter w/ Phillips heads, but in this case it does.
nah. only you had to be careful of this.....
@@elm4nsuri Certainly possible! But I've never had this issue with any other screw type, and yet I've had the problem each time I've had to install an M.2 drive.
There's really no reason to overtighten any screws on a PC. Working on a car it could happen but stripping a screw on a PC is completely out of the question.
@@taylormeyer671 for me the issue wasn't overtightening - the issue was that the bit didn't fit very well. The M2 screws really want a P1 bit. Normally with other screws you can use other phillips bits, but not for the M2
It's always a best practice to use a bit that fits the screw snug. Philips was intended to prevent overtightening though. If you have precise control of your driver, torx would be better if it's an option. Over tightening is bad, slamming the tip of a driver into a circuit board is much worse.
Armory crate is horrendous
tfw I built a pc back in 2019 and installed the NVMe on the second slot without a heatsink while the first slot went unused for almost four years and had the paper still on the heatsink. Just switched it right now. Surprised my PC didn't catch on fire.
Warning - Installed Samsung Magician and it just stays on top of everything spinning endlessly "Scanning for drive information". End task necessary to quit. Then found "This software is not compatible with other manufacturers' SSDs."
How come some of the M.2 slots have heat pads and other slots don't on the same motherboard? Does this impact performance?
for the most part it doesn't make a difference. And if you look all the m.2 slots have cooling. for this board.
Most board manufacturers put cooling plates like (MSI M.2 Shield Frozr) on the higher speed interfaces (PCIe 4.0) cause they run faster than PCIe 3 which means more heat generated, more expensive boards have cooling solutions on all or most NVMe slots cause you're paying more.
An high speed nvme SSD can throttle down in speed when a certain temperature target is reached, usually with long sustained data transfers. A thermal pad especially on the controller chip helps to dump the heat to a heatsink allowing it to maintain higher/full speed.
your GPU is running at x8 instead of x16 since you have an NVME drive installed in that top lane. guess that doesnt matter I suppose.
I have a Dell XPS 8930 with a 512 GB NVMe drive (D) and a WD 1 TB HDD (C). I want to replace the NVMe with a 2 TB drive, load Windows 11 onto it, make it drive C, and remove the WD HDD. I've created a Windows Recover USB drive. Is there a RUclips video that will show me how to do this?
i have the new amd AM5 board asus rog strix x670e - e and i can only use one nvme, any more than 1 will cut my gpu pcie to 8x instead of 16.. im disappointed, unless im doing something wrong. i just revert to 2.5 ssd at the moment until i get this figured out. i could use help tho.
the no.1 mistake is applying a block of heat sink on ur nvme it does cools ur drive but the performance with and without is same it just a feature not a requirement
Once I screwed in an NVMe SSD without the supporting screw hole under the SSD and it bent so much that I thought I snapped it. Nope, it still works to this day.
pcbs can bend quite a bit before snapping
I never thought to check the m.2 speed/lanes. I have 1 firecuda 530 2tb and 2 Samsung 980pro 1tb. I remember using the magician software on my ddr4 board and when I used their benchmark it never reached the rated speed. This is probably the reason.
God there's so much to learn.
STEP 1 - do research about speeds etc
STEP 2 - buy your hardware
STEP 3 - turn the screw to mount the M.2 SSD and have the standoff come out of the motherboard
Most people won't do step one.
Mm i just noticed that your cpu or gpu is not centered correctly or is it just the camera angle but it looks crooked
Followed your instructions on my 10 year old pc after purchasing a ssd. Thank you so much for the information as my computer is like new now and it was so easy to do using your instructions 😀 😊
👍
Happy to see NVMe slot between CPU and peg slot. I was the engineer inside Intel added a nvme to desktop in Skylake time keeping atx form factor.
Thanks you for these great tips. I don't have any Gen 4 stuff yet, but I'll make sure my 3 NVMe's are working properly thanks to your video!
bro i'm a straight ass man but your voice nearly had me second guessing myself, that shit is deeper than the marianna's trench!
Wtf
I didn’t have a screw but I read on Reddit somones been using it without m.2 screw without any issues for a little over 3 years now sooo 😬 I’ll take my chances lol
Curiously, the 1st M.2 slot you recommend people to install their drive to (the one closest to the CPU) is the slot one SHOULD NOT use on the ASUS STRIX z790-E board in particular, since this will limit the GPU to run at x8. I wonder if I will ever use that slot at all. Oddly, it´s the only PCI E 5.0 M.2 slot. Equipped with a beefy thermal shield. Since I haven´t built a PC over a decade, I´m intrigued by this, wondering if I am missing something important here.
Any thoughts on that?
I hated putting it into the second slot, since the first has the heat pipe!
@@josephaltman460 I hate to be the one telling you, but I THINK both the 1st AND the 2nd M.2 slots share the same CPU lanes with your GPU. If I am not mistaken, you have to install in the 3 M.2 the furthest away, Corretct me, if I am wrong, but you might be running your GPU at x8 right now. Please send us feedback.
z790 has more pci e lanes, it doesn't matter
My 2tb Kingsto ssd only 20mbs for formatting😭
Just do quick format?
Very useful @The Provoked Prawn. My drives are x2 Samsung 990's and x 3 Crucial Gen 4 drives all running at Gen 2x1. I have an Asus Z790 Hero Motherboard, how do I get them running at the Full speed please?
16 lines vs 8 lines on gpu is not half drop of the performance. it can be 5-10% and in many games has no impact at all.
I have and old mobo (socket 1366) and i am trying to install windows 10 in expansion card with NVME M2 2TB. I received message that :
"Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computers hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure That the disk controller is enabled in the computers BIOS menu."
Can i bypass this using WinNTsetup 5.2 or clover ?
ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING worst motherboard for installing this. Would literally block my GPU fans. Excellent design to install another Asus product onto! Could I use the Xiwai Low Profile PCI-E 3.0 x1 Lane to M.2 adaptor to increase my NVME drives please?
If you have bought a drive with a heatsink is it still necessary to lay it upon extra thermal padding? Installing into my new Aurora R15(2 TB 980 pro w/heatsink) and PS5(1 TB pro w/ heatsink) each. Basically is it not necessary to have thermal padding if you bought an ssd with a heatsink?
Hi,
please help me :/
I have 2 ssd installed with windows and everything,
but my BIOs shows them as raid, not nvme.
and when I login to windows, it shows all the information about both ssds, but transfer mode in empty :/
I installed one on m2_1 and the other on m2_2 on strix z790-f
Do you know what is wrong :(
Hey! Thanks for your video. I am building a PC and I bought two same exact M2 SSD. When installing windows, how do I make sure I select the fastest one? Not sure what to do. If I install one first it will be a pain in the butt to remove the GPU to install the second one
Thank you. I just installed a 2nd 4TB ssd on the motherboard, and it didn't show, but after watching your video above regarding "disk management " it came alive 😊
Glad it helped
did it show in bios?
Both my Samsung 970Plus and Hynex gold p31 reduced speed, samsung write 2100mbs, Hynex 3000mbs. Ive tried everything, reinstall Controller, add sam 3.3 update, clear junk files, reinstall ssd. asus tuf 560 gaming plus. installed in black pcie3 drive. temps 42c. Write cache on. AchI mode on in bios.
My cpu fan and rtx gpu is covering up my first nvme , so if I install an nvme I will not be able to use a heatsink can I use the bottom slot and still get the same speed? I will only be installing 1 nvme drive
TROUBLESHOOTING: If nvme drive tops out around 900Mbps then check if DMI link gen is set to auto and automatically misconfigured to gen1.
Thanks installed extra ssd and I didn’t see it on pc, followed your easy steps and I am good to go. Thanks.
You're welcome!
Step one dont buy nzxt motherboards lol
i have 4 m.2 slots on my mobo, lets say i fill all of them, top slot being 2tb m.2 7000mbps, middle 2tb, and bottom 2 slots 8tb, 8tb, all say speeds 7000mb, so with all filled in, wil they all run at 7000mb speed individually?
Depends on your motherboard ruclips.net/video/m_qy7rMs2AE/видео.html
Hi, I have a question i just purchase wd sn850x, pcie gen 4 2TB nvme drive and i have inserted this nvme in pcie gen 4 slot in the motherboard, my motherboard is gigabyte auros pro B550M, on cristal diskmark software i am getting 7300 read 6300 write speed, but when i actully coping any file in this nvme i am only getting 530 to 550mbps why? Shouldn't the writing speed be in gbps like 1 to 2.5 gbps atleast?
Wouldn't putting thermal pads under the m.2 drive increase the temperature transfer to the area under the m.2? Just a little confused for my build
SSD 2TB AD SX8200 PRO PCIe M.2 2280 NVMe just stops working on me . . . what the hell is going on, for some reason i feel like its heat related but the disk health shows me max temp 45degees celsius....
You can just right-click the Windows start button and go right to disk management directly in Windows 11. If I remember right, the same shortcut works in 10 as well.
Probably not gonna get a response on this, but help would be appreciated. On my motherboard(Gigabyte B560 DS3H AC), there’s only 2 m.2 ports. I can’t figure out which to use, and no research is helping find out if they’re even gen 4.0 slots or not. But my new Samsung 980 Pro 2TB, plugged in below the graphics card, is only reading at 3500 MB/s and writing at 600 MB/s. This is still a massive step up from the current storage (485 MB/s read, 80 MB/s write, 256 GB). When plugged into the one just below the cpu, my computer won’t even attempt starting. Any ideas?
Are you using SATA drives as well? Sometimes I've seen it where the m.2. drive or SATA drive is disabled if you're using one and the other. I.e. if you have an SSD or HDD plugged in, try moving the cable to another port. Alternatively it might be a BIOS setting causing the issue.
Prawn I have the Asus GeForce RTX 4090 ROG Strix OC 24GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card and Windows 11 installed on Crucial T705 2TB SSD PCIe Gen5 NVMe M.2 Internal Gaming SSD. The Case is NZXT H7 Flow RGB | Mid-Tower ATX Airflow Case with RGB Fans and Water Cooler NZXT Kraken ELite 360 RGB Black AIO Intel/AMD CPU Hydro-Cooler (2023 Edition). Now because I listen to some advice by you I think in another video you said to install just one for the first time and that's what I did. I have two more drives which are: Samsung 990 PRO 4TB M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD/Solid State Drive PC/PS5 and Samsung 870 QVO 2TB 2.5” Gen2 SATA SSD/Solid State Drive.
The ROG HYPER M.2 CARD looks very close to the Graphics Card. It would be right underneath the fans. Which is best a ROG HYPER M.2 CARD or just install on the motherboard? I would have to remove the Graphics Card first to install the Samsung 990 PRO 4TB M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD/Solid State Drive PC/PS5 or is it easier just to install a ROG HYPER M.2 CARD? Prawn what do you think?
Yeah, like on B550 boards...
The top M.2 slot is using the CPU's PCI-e lanes and is PCI-e 4.0 x4.
The bottom M.2 slot is using the B550 chipset PCI-e lanes, and they are all PCI-e 3.0, so the bottom M.2 slot is PCI-e 3.0 x4.
On top of that, if you fill all 6x S-ATA slots, you have 2 options.
1) Run the bottom M.2 drive at PCI-e 3.0 x4 and lost S-ATA ports 5/6 OR
2) Run the bottom M.2 drive at PCI-e 3.0 x2 and run S-ATA ports 5/6 at half speed.
That's how the Asus B550-F Gaming Wi-Fi II works. Which, a lot of boards won't have to worry about that because not many boards have 6 S-ATA slots. Me? I have all 6x S-ATA slots filled up with SSD's (3x) and 2x 1TB HDD's in RAID 0 and 1x 3TB HDD for back up/storage/games that I don't play often that load fast anyways.
So, I bought a S-ATA expansion card to run my HDD's on and disabled S-ATA ports 5/6 so I could get the full PCI-e 3.0 x4 out of my 2TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus (which is PCI-e 3.0 x4).
Read your manuals closely, they explain all of this. It even depends on the CPU you have. If you have a normal Zen 3 CPU with no APU (no 5700G or whatever), then it'll work like this.
However, the models with APUs have less PCI-e lanes to share which can have you running into issues on the top half of the board.
Just gotta read the manual.
Hi i would to ask for help i just installed a 2nd nvme ssd on my pc. Which is kingston NV2 1Tb for extra storage. Ive finished setting it up but i cant use it saying its write protected? Any idea how can i fix this? Thank you.
Can I just utilize the expansion drive for M.2 drives? Or should I install my drives directly on motherboard? First PC build and haven’t loaded windows yet. Just looking for a little guidance
ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 Hero
2 - M.2 980 Pro 2280 2TB.
RTX 4090
Usually faster directly on the motherboard
Good info, but you mentioned early on about RAIDing your M2 NVME, then jumped to discussing Windows disk manager, however you never mentioned the key fact of NEVER build a RAID in Windows disk manager. Yes, you didn't talk about doing that, but I have seen enough people try making RAIDs that way, that it is critical to teach to NEVER do that. The OS should never manage a RAID, only a dedicated array controller should (BIOS or dedicated controller).
I'm setting up a new gaming rig with 3 1Tb KC3000 drives on a Z790 Tomahawk MB...this is all very helpful. Any comments on the Kingston SSD Manager software in comparison to the Samsung Magic software?
Anyone know a good ssd for a hp 500-164?
Thank you for this video this is the First time installing a SSD like this, Really helped
One should always fine the software for the maker of the NVME and update its actual firmware.
m.2 4x4 cards are going to thermal throttle without oversize heatsinks so if you want RAID 0 you're going to probably want a riser cable somewhere
If we are going to stick with the M2 standards; why not move to Flash Ram storage? Single board manufacturer Latte Panda use it to effectively provide "System on a chip" for the OS installed on the board. And Flash Ram can be faster than SSD's t think the industry is missing a trick that they had in the 8bit era. But Flash Ram instead of Rom... That makes updating the OS simpler. And that must be a good thing.
I have 9 AM4 systems in the house. 3 are x570 and 6 are b450. I have a gen 3 Samsung 970 250gb as boot and 1tb WD black SN750 gen3 as game drive on a x570 Asus prime board. My sustained speeds are within range but my random iops are a fraction of what they should be. I’m talking 23,000 random read iops and 109,000 random write iops. Any idea why a x570 or b450 would be giving such low random numbers? I never noticed this until I started to pay attention to the speeds from the Samsung benchmark software. They do show proper gen3 x4 connection speed. Ideas?
@@filbgyibcfyjechik3612 thanks for the update. Pretty sure I’m not using encryption on that basic media pc but I’ll check.
@@mqcapps thanks for the reply. You think even if they show running at full Gen3 4x speed? If it showed 2x I would think maybe that is the reason but it’s a x570 board with more lanes available. Only cpu, gpu and two gen3 m2 drives. X570 should have no issue with such a light load I would think. Opinion?
@@filbgyibcfyjechik3612 No bitlocker on this system. Just unexplanable slow random speeds on these quality Gen3 drives on full speed M2 slots. Latest chipset drivers. Sad one of two reasons I swapped out from a B450M board was to gain Gen4 for a 8x 6600xt GPU and so both M2 drives would run full speed without adapter cards on 2x bus. Well I have Gen4 8x bandwidth now for the GPU but NVMe drives don't seem to be running full speed which is disappointing.
Why do you have 9 systems?
@@Koos460 One for each in the family and media PCs on the TVs and a garage shop pc for music, how to videos. It’s a bit much I know but it’s a fun hobby. Weakest PC is a 5600G/b450/GtX1080.
Would this apply to a board that has one Gen5 drive slot and three Gen4 drive slots? If I use the Gen5 drive and just one of the Gen4 drive slots, would it kill the speed of the Gen5 drive? It's a MSI MEG X670E ACE board. Thanks for the video. I'm in the middle of this build.
I have an SSD for my PS5 and wondering if I take it out of my PS5 and install it into a PC will it have any effect or no effect at all
Top slot is not a good idea on my board, if i do this, the graphics card slot will not be x16 but x8 instead....
Because top slot is using processor lanes. Bottom slot is using chipset lanes.
My XPG gaming X S 70 blade 2 Tb died after 3 months
It won't boot and when i check it in the nvme configuration it shows as MN-5236 and disk size shoes 2.1 GB and sometimes when i remove the drive and install it again it shows S 70 Blade 2TB and when i run a device self test ( controllor only ) my bios freezes
Also my nvme idles around a 50 C and the max reeding i have seen on hw monitor is 62 C
Can it be because of temperature?
What could be the cause of my problem
How can i fix it
Pls help 🙏 me
on my z690 Strix F the first m2 slot is completely useless because i have occasional stutters and laggs in games and desktop stuff when i put my 970 evo plus with w11 in it. my 12600kf should be strong enough to handle a 4060, 2x m2 like my 970 and my 980 pro game drive. the 4060 has by design pcie 4.0 with just 8x lanes but it stutters very heavily sometimes. lane sharing is very annoying. when i put my m2 drives on the other 3 slots which are provided by the z690 chipset then everything runs just beautiful like it should.
For example Z790 Aurorus Master and also some motherboard from ASUS share top m.2 slot with GPU PCIe slot, so it is not always a good idea to install disk to the top one.
I have the Z390 Ultra Aurorus from Gigabyte.
@vincewilson1 same here.. I am beginning to believe the bottom slot is best. My graphics card is installed into the top PCIEX16 slot. Also the bottom heat sink will be perfect for my new 990pro ssd 🤔
If your M.2 drive didnt came with a screw, you can unscrew one from an old hdd
thank you man!
You're welcome Julian!
Friends don't let friends install Armory Crate.
Hi, I Could really use your help figuring out why in my ASRock Fatal1ty B350 ITX A/C wifi if I put in a 4TB m.2 SSD in the only available spot, it only allows me to format 2TB.
Already tried converting to GPT and Dynamic disk but I still run into the same problem as MBR, only 2TB used even if it sees all 4 unallocated.
I tried diff bios options too, like UEFI mode instead of Legacy and that makes it worse where the screen stays completely black after a restart.
Even with MBR mode when win10 does get installed, the system says there's something missing so it stays on a black screen with some text and doesn't advance.
Please help, out of ideas! Thanks!!
ive got a 1tb kioxia exceria g2 as my windows drive, also have a corsair mp510 but only 240gb along side 2x hdd (pointless having the mp510 i know but got bored and shoved it in) but my question is which one would you have as windows on? im on strix rog z390 gaming f still, so also wondering whether any adjustments in bios to max out speed they can run? thanks for all these vids, without my pc my life would be.... well different as i got adhd and autism so when i have an issue its great to refer back to these vids
I dont have a thermal sink for mine, is that ok? It's installed in the top slot. I spent a long time thinking of what slot should I use, because while the second one is apparently slower (only 2 slots in my mobo btw), it comes with a heatsink. On the other hand, it goes right below the graphics card, little room to breath under that hot thing.
I'm a noob and this was super helpful lol. I was sweating buckets while adding the ssd to my pc lol. I felt like I was performing brain surgery😂😂 Thanks for great instructions! :)
Im im the midst of updgrading to a 2TB 970 evo plus, its my first nvme ever. My x570m pro4 has 2 hyper m.2 one under heat sink behind gpu (CPU LANE) and one just under gpu slot(SB LANE).
X570m pro4
R7 3700X
ASUS TUF 3060TI 8GB OC V2
RMx850
2x 860 evo 1tb/500gb boot
1x 970 evo plus
I cant get my mobo OR WIN10 to recognize my new m.2 in either one m.2_1 or m.2_2.. disk management doesnt see it to add a letter etc. I even unplugged all SATA drives and only had M.2 and my USB Flash with Win10 install.
When i goto my BIOS the only options i can see under sotrage configs are all of my different SATA plugs set to Auto. Im about to my wits end and laat resort is a bios update, but im terrified to brick my machine.
I just upgraded my 500gb 3 year old NVMe with a WD 2TB NVMe and once I cloned it windows kept freezing and getting blue screens. I guess it is heating up much more than my previous one and I’ve ordered a heat sink and hopefully that will resolve this issue.
scary voice... but good video
Hi i have a HP 2015 ish with specs say SSD M.2 and the slot on the M/B is that NVME type with small 5pin and one long for the rest. I bought a NVME Gen4x4 with same 1 small and 1 long but it sort of very tight getting it into slot with it pushed against notch not middle of notch? i see 5 pins in slot (not 6) and my H/D has 5 on one side and 4 on the other. So is this right one as Laptop wont recognize? If k, i cant see anything in Bios about H/D and also tried Ubuntu on Stick and when temp loaded , it cant see drive either. Model HP 15-ba052au
What do you think is faster for the games data installation ? An 2TB M.2 drive encrypted with Bitlocker that is connected directly to the CPU with its x4 lane (as C: main drive). Or the games data on a second 2TB M.2 drive that is not bitlocker encrypted and not connected directly to the CPU with the lane, but via x4 to the chipset (and another 0,5-1 TB for C: drive) ?
Hi Sir, have you encountered any m.2 problem with this board? MoBo can't read my Crucial P5 m.2 SSD. Still finding answers. Thanks in advance.
1) Once you've secured your shiny new Gen 4 or 5 SSD into your PC, you then think "Fantastic! Now I'll install windows on this and look forward to crazy speeds." And so it is said, and so you do...only to immediately discover that the 'crazy speeds' are very, very much.....not as advertised. In fact, this drive isn't noticeably faster that an 'ancient' SATA SSD.
--> Welcome to the shocking stagnation of 4k speeds over the years.
2) After that bombshell, you decide to turn the second Gen 4/5 NVME SSD you purchased into a data drive, and proceed to write several hundred GB of data onto the fancy new toy. BUT, well before the end of the write process you find that the speed has dropped to shockingly low speeds (in many cases this is much, much slower than a fast HDD(!!!)).
--> Welcome the the infamous 'write hole' Achilles heel.
Marketing is funny, isn't it ;)
My motherboard would support the top slot but its only for 11th gen cpus and i have 10th gen so i can only do the bottom one
I recently added a 2nd nvme drive to my system but now it takes 1-2 minutes to boot, before it hardly took 7-8 seconds, I've tried everything in bios but unable to figure out the problem. X570 board, I'm using a Samsung 980 gen 3, wd sn770 gen 4 drive and a 2tb hard drive. Thankyou for the help
I have an AlienWare 17 R3 & I want to install 2 of these drives in the slots provided by Dell. Are these Plug & Play, meaning can I just install them & off we go? I want to install a Samsung - 980 1TB Internal Gaming SSD PCIe Gen 3 x4 NVMe & a Samsung - 980 PRO 2TB Internal Gaming SSD PCIe Gen 4 x4 NVMe. I just want to make sure they are compatible with my system.
Thanks,
Mike
an SSD NVMe was added to speed up my Windows startup my HP Mini Desktop is - intermittently - making a vibratory noise. Is it normal ??
We have an Asus X670e Tuf motherboard and one slot, is 2 Lanes NVME + 2 SATA or 4 Lanes NVME + NO SATA !!! It caused me quite a confusion when I built the PC because the CPU could not find the TWO Sata drives because the motherboard was configured for 4 Lanes NVME !!
Great tips I am running Optane 1600X for system and cheap 2TB M2 NVME for data.
I only have one slot for NVMe. Right now it’s occupied with a shitty SSD from the pre built manufacturer (benchmarked it at 1k mgps..) and bought a Samsung 990 pro to replace it. But current shitty SSD has my OS on it. Is moving the OS from the old SSD to my upgrade an easy process?
Hi I have NUC11PHBi7 Enthusiast with Samsung SSD 980 PRO 2TB installed at slot where Optane was (which burned down), Samsung Magician suggest "Recommended to connect to PCIe Gen 4.0 for optimal speed". BIOS setting is as suggested different from Optane one. Any suggestions how to get PCIe Gen. 4x4 on that system?
Damn it, I have Giogabyte motherboard and cannot finde where to switch the M.2. Link Speed... I hope my MSI Tomahawk will have it.
I have asked a few people this question but nobody have replied with an answer, It's a daft question but still I can't afford loosing certain things and it's my biggest fear having to install another windows 10, I am new to this PC thing, I used to produce Hip Hop but that was just using music software, Never really got deep into the PC thing, Wishing I did now, lol, But yeah I bought one of those crucial nvme m.2 ssd drives, I have been getting blue screen with the other drives in the PC for some reason, Now I disabled them I only got the one C drive, I got to install this nvme ssd as I do Sim Racing for youtube, But I am not able to save replays ect, Plus I wants to do a video for my Brother who sadly passed away on the 29th August 2022, My Brother is an amazing artist, Known as the King of Graffiti in my Area, Soz for saying my Brother is, I still cannot speak of my Brother like he no longer with us...
If I install the m.2 ssd will my Pc go all weird, lol, Like will the PC boot up as it normally do, It is a gigabyte gaming motherboard, It is pretty old but still runs like a bad ass PC, I am getting 160-190 fps on RaceRoom with a 1660 super 6gb OC edition I will add, lol, Sounds better saying OC edition, lol, Yeah the PC is still running as good as I want it too, I am looking on buying a new motherboard and CPU bundle But for right now this PC does everything I want it too, Its just the memory issue I got to sort out, Will my PC still boot up as normal after installing the m.2 ssd, Faster I install the m.2 the faster I can get on my Sim racing and enter races...
Hope you can answer, Soz about the esa, I just type fast, lol...
Heyhey, just upgraded from SATA to NWME directly into my mobo, my mobo does not have a heatsink, is bit old, but so far is working just fine.
I am on a full tower with proper air cooling + cpu aio, is not a mini case, should be fine for basic gaming ?
OKay, i do video recordings into additional hdd, i am doing first stress tests today and next weeks before i continue my recordings, just to be safe.
Is very annoying to activate softwares again on a clean Windows.
Western Digital NVME gen 3 2tb.
I just prefer quality when able it seems.
I dont need the top speeds, i just needed more data space.
I bought new pc setup and after 1 month my 500gb crucial p3 nvme m.2 stopped working. I was playing valorant suddenly black screen appears then pc re-start and shows bios page. I saw in bios > storage > pci ssd - ( blank ) the size is not showing its blank there. What is the reason??
I also tried in another port didn't worked also the nvme got super hot in 30 seconds like i am using it from hours.
I have a M.2 and it is slow as shit. It's the main slot, but damn it sucks! It works fine for windows boot up (it is where windows is installed), but for large games...IT SUCKS!
God wants his computer back..so, I got one of these... will MS invalidate my windows key if I clone to it? I didn't think of that before I bought it...
Is the thermal pack normally "glued" to the ssd after the installation after you peal of the plastic?
(I want to install two Additional SSD to my already installed SSD on the top spot)
I bought two faster one's, thats way I want to change the one on the top spot with one faster one i bought (for running the OS usw.) so if its glued i'm not gonna do it obiously.
I just installed a new NVME SSD, and I got it working and everything, but then I tried moving windows from my hdd to my ssd and it failed or smthn, and now it says I don’t have permission to use my ssd. Everything else works just fine, just not the ssd. I even tried going into permission settings, but nothing I did worked. Does anyone have any tips that could help?