Which is exactly what a SATA III SSD drive will do.Shouldnt it be able to give me at least 500-600MBps? Thats still much faster than my mechanical drives
Yes.Can you actually take an image of your system drive on a mechanical hard drive and put it on an nvme drive?
Thanks in advance for the help
HI , I want to get an nvme drive and put my os and all the programs I got my c drive on it, while a clean install is the best thing to do, I wanna do that later because ive got lots of programs configured and it would waste me a day or two at leastYes.
Macrium Reflect can do this easily.
What, specifically, are you looking to do?
What specific drive, and what specific motherboard?HI , I want to get an nvme drive and put my os and all the programs I got my c drive on it, while a clean install is the best thing to do, I wanna do that later because ive got lots of programs configured and it would waste me a day or two at least
Unfortunately its an old asus P8P67What is the make/model of your motherboard? Presumably it can mount a m.2 pcie ssd.
Easily done.
Buy a samsung ssd of sufficient capacity to hold the contents of your C drive HDD
Install the m.2
Download the samsung nvme driver, the ssd migration app and instructions here:
You install the driver and run the app.![]()
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When done, set the boot order to the new m.2 drive.
You can then do what you wish with the old HDD.
Keep it as a backup in time snapshot.
Or, consider repurposing as an external backup device.
Unfortunately its an old asus P8P67 and trying to get a samsung 970 evo plus or 980 and use with a pci express adaptorWhat specific drive, and what specific motherboard?
Give us a rundown of ALL the parts associated with this.Unfortunately its an old asus P8P67
DO NOT BOTHER with an NVMe drive in that system. With or without a PCIe adapter.Unfortunately its an old asus P8P67 and trying to get a samsung 970 evo plus or 980 and use with a pci express adaptor
Shouldnt it be able to give me at least 500-600MBps? Thats still much faster than my mechanical drivesDO NOT BOTHER with an NVMe drive in that system. With or without a PCIe adapter.
You won't be able to boot from that drive.
A SATA III SSD will do just fine, be a drop in replacement, and you won't notice ANY "speed" difference.
Which is exactly what a SATA III SSD drive will do.Shouldnt it be able to give me at least 500-600MBps? Thats still much faster than my mechanical drives
Even then, a waste.Adding a pcie m.2 device via a pcie adapter might work for data files.
Any of the current cloning/imaging tools will recreate partitions on the new drive just as they are on the old.Also ive a few partitions on this drive , When migrating to the ssd would it it create partitions or can I just move them as data
Hey ! Thanks for comingAny of the current cloning/imaging tools will recreate partitions on the new drive just as they are on the old.
This is just a secondary drive?Hey ! Thanks for coming
Any chance I can actually make folders of those instead of partitions on the new drive? Ordering as we speak, Getting a 860 evo 250gb for boot and and 1 tb for games ! Gonna make a new system as soon as the 3070 or 3080 series card are spotted on planet earth then sell these and replace with nvme ones![]()
3rd and 4th drives , if the move from the boot drive a wd caviar black 1TB is successful iil retire that or maybe use as storage and after moving my steam library from the wd blue 1 TB that ive my steam games on gonna sell that most likely.This is just a secondary drive?
Changing partitions into folders is done manually.
Create the relevant folders on the new drive.
Copy/paste the data in each partition as applicable.