[SOLVED] Installing new SSD drives in old office Lenovo 715q tiny 1st gen.

[mojo1395]

Our IT dept. replaced our Lenovo desktops with new Dell machines and I have taken my old office desktop, a Lenovo M715q tiny 1 st gen desktop with AMD A10 8770E processor with the intention of using this for working from home as well as a home computer.
This has the original 2.5 in SATA 250 GB SSD drive which is woefully inadequate for storing my photos / videos and iTunes library but surprisingly this old desk top came with 16 GB ( 2 x 8GB) RAM which is way more than I need.
I intend replacing the small 2.5 in SSD deive with a Samsung 2.5 in SATA 870 EVO 1 TB SSD and in addition, add a Samsung 980 PCIe 3.0 x 4 500 GB SSD in the M2 expansion slot .
My intention is to clone the old 250 GB SSD drive to the M2 drive and use this faster 500 GB SSD drive as the boot drive and the slower 1 TB 2.5 in SATA SSD as the storage drive.
My home computing needs do not require a new heavy duty processor or a lot of RAM or other resources but would welcome any suggestions / comments on my intentions to upgrade the storage as aboveInstalling new SSD drives in old office Lenovo 715q tiny 1st gen.

 

[sonofjesse]

I would never use a CORP IT asset as a personal computer. Not a great idea. Unless they SELL you the computer.

If its a work computer your IT dept should do what you need for a work at home PC.

 

[USAFRet]

using this for working from home as well as a home computer

For me, that is a bad idea.
One or the other, not both.
Unless this was given to you for strictly personal use, or sold to you...it remains company property.

But for your concept of the clone thing....there isn't as much difference as you might expect between the current SATA SSD and a 980 NVMe drive.
Yeah, the benchmarks numbers are faster. User facing performance....not so much.

Once we moved past spinning HDD, differences between various flavors of solid state are not as great as they seem.

 

[USAFRet]

If you want more space, I'd just add a drive or two.
What specific motherboard is this? The M.2 port may not be viable for a good high speed NVme drive.

 

[mojo1395]

Thanks for the replies. So there would not be any noticeable difference whether Win 10 boots from the SSD from the M2 or the SATA port ?
The processor is AMD A10 8770E 4 core 3.5GHz, K15IMC chipset with AMD Radeon R7 graphics . The M2 bus specs are PCIE 3.0 x 4 (8.0 GT/s) which is why I did not consider a PCIE 4.0 drive.

As I said earlier, the 250 GB drive was more than enough for my work purposes and currently has 170 GB unused / free space but in addition to accessing work programs from home, as I will also be using this as a personal computer, I need the additional storage space for my personal photos, videos, music and data files which I will be transferring from an older Dell desktop.

Should have mentioned for the record, in addition to myself, some other employees who wanted their old machines had to pay $83 each for these (the residual book value) and as per their procedure, after wiping the machines' hard drives clean, the company's IT dept. sold the rest of the 50+ desktops (and monitors, keyboards etc.) to a company that trades in used IT hardware. They do this every time they upgrade the hardware in the office. Also it is company policy not to support or service hardware and software that is not owned or licensed by the company but they will help employees set up / configure and trouble shoot personal machines to access Company systems / licensed programs from home using Citrix (and other platforms) for work purposes.

 

[USAFRet]

Thanks for the replies. So there would not be any noticeable difference whether Win 10 boots from the SSD from the M2 or the SATA port ?

You might see a second or two faster boot time. Maybe.

But a lot of people cannot tell the difference in a blind test.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DKLA7w9eeA