[SOLVED] Will an SSD work in older ASUS P8P67 PRO

[jaged]

I'm trying to give a little life to an old PC I have with the Asus P8P67 PRO mobo in it.
Was considering installing an Adata Ultimate SU800 1TB drive.
Will that SSD work on an older motherboard like that?
I'm going to install it as the main drive(not just storage). Pc running Windows 10.

Thanks.

 

[geofelt]

A SSD is a wonderful upgrade.
You have a couple of 6gb sata ports which will let a sata ssd run at full speeds.
I might suggest a 1tb samsung 860, either evo or QVO.
Samsung has a nice C drive mover app that works well.
You run the utility and when done just swap boot order.
After, you can re-purpose your hard drive for whatever

 

[jaged]

A SSD is a wonderful upgrade.
You have a couple of 6gb sata ports which will let a sata ssd run at full speeds.
I might suggest a 1tb samsung 860, either evo or QVO.
Samsung has a nice C drive mover app that works well.
You run the utility and when done just swap boot order.
After, you can re-purpose your hard drive for whatever

A SSD is a wonderful upgrade.
You have a couple of 6gb sata ports which will let a sata ssd run at full speeds.
I might suggest a 1tb samsung 860, either evo or QVO.
Samsung has a nice C drive mover app that works well.
You run the utility and when done just swap boot order.
After, you can re-purpose your hard drive for whatever

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[USAFRet]

Any 2.5" SATA III SSD will work.
Samsung 860 EVO, Crucial MX500 are the two default choices.


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[Karadjgne]

Just be careful what you buy, that old board will not handle any NVMe drive and there are some that come in 2.5" and pcie formats, not just the more normal M.2.

The standard 2.5" Sata ssd is what you want.

 

[jaged]

A SSD is a wonderful upgrade.
You have a couple of 6gb sata ports which will let a sata ssd run at full speeds.
I might suggest a 1tb samsung 860, either evo or QVO.
Samsung has a nice C drive mover app that works well.
You run the utility and when done just swap boot order.
After, you can re-purpose your hard drive for whatever

Can you give a quick rundown of the order of operations on this?
I have a Samsung 860 1tb and the original HDD WD 1tb. The HDD is C: and mounted in the pc now. I have the SSD and new mounting adaptor here to install as well.
Should I physically install the SSD and just run the samsung utility(which I haven't looked into yet)? is it really as simple as that?

 

[USAFRet]

Can you give a quick rundown of the order of operations on this?
I have a Samsung 860 1tb and the original HDD WD 1tb. The HDD is C: and mounted in the pc now. I have the SSD and new mounting adaptor here to install as well.
Should I physically install the SSD and just run the samsung utility(which I haven't looked into yet)? is it really as simple as that?

Just like this:

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Specific steps for a successful clone operation:
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Verify the actual used space on the current drive is significantly below the size of the new SSD
Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung SSD)
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up
Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive
Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD
This is to allow the system to try to boot from ONLY the SSD
Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive
Power up, and verify the BIOS boot order
If good, continue the power up

It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive.
Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure.

If it works, and it should, all is good.

Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe all partitions on it.
This will probably require the commandline diskpart function, and the clean command.

Ask questions if anything is unclear.
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[jaged]

Just like this:

-----------------------------
Specific steps for a successful clone operation:
-----------------------------
Verify the actual used space on the current drive is significantly below the size of the new SSD
Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung SSD)
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up
Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive
Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD
This is to allow the system to try to boot from ONLY the SSD
Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive
Power up, and verify the BIOS boot order
If good, continue the power up

It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive.
Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure.

If it works, and it should, all is good.

Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe all partitions on it.
This will probably require the commandline diskpart function, and the clean command.

Ask questions if anything is unclear.
-----------------------------

USAF, do you think it's even a good idea to clone the old drive to the new one? Would the new SSD perform more efficiently from a new install(or would it be minimal and not worth the hassle of having to reinstall everything)

What would you do?

 

[geofelt]

I am a big fan of the samsung ssd migration app.
It is not a clone utility, which is a bit for bit copy, but it is a windows C drive mover.
Install your 860 in the normal manner.
Run the app and it will copy your current C drive image to your new ssd.
While not necessary, I would just swap the sata data cables instead of chinging the boot order in the bios.
Later, you can do what you wish with the old HDD, it remains unchanged so you could keep it as a backup.

 

[USAFRet]

USAF, do you think it's even a good idea to clone the old drive to the new one? Would the new SSD perform more efficiently from a new install(or would it be minimal and not worth the hassle of having to reinstall everything)

What would you do?

I've done both. With both Macrium and SDM.

If the OS on the old drive is working fine, then give it a try.
You can always go back and do a clean install if things are not right.

With a Samsung target drive, use the Samsung Data Migration.

 

[jaged]

I've done both. With both Macrium and SDM.

If the OS on the old drive is working fine, then give it a try.
You can always go back and do a clean install if things are not right.

With a Samsung target drive, use the Samsung Data Migration.

New Samsung drive went in no issue, samsung utility was beautiful.
Only catch was I saw how dirty the fins were on the heatsink on my CPU and then I had to look into how to get it off and clean it LOL. But it all worked out.

I was going to move my Steam folder and all games back to the C: drive(which is now the Samsung SSD) but the Steam folder is too big. Do you think there would be any advantage to moving a game or two(like GTA V for example) to the SSD by itself?

Down the road I'm going to buy another 860 probably and have two of them in the PC for but that isn't for a while yet.

 

[USAFRet]

Games living on the SSD will benefit from faster level loading times, that's about it.

 

[Karadjgne]

Programs run through Windows (which is basically everything) are loaded from the source drive to a temp cache folder in C. So in game, if you leave one area and goto another, the maps etc get loaded from hdd but get run from the ssd. That only applies to the original. So if you turned around and went back to the first area, that map is already in cache, so works at ssd speeds.

I have steam on ssd. Game library is hdd. When I first load Office map in CSGO, it's loaded to ssd cache. Takes a few seconds. Then do assault, Italy etc. When Office comes back around, it's almost instant load because that map is still in cache. On the ssd.

Having the games on ssd just means the original load is faster, but doesn't affect game play since it's all run by ssd anyways.