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Thank you so much guys...I will get into it now & let you know how it went! 
I've clonned 2x times using Samsungs own software & it didn't work...guess its not that good afterall. 

Hopefully there is no power loss. Thank you for the help! 

1660Ti, i would avoid RX5500XT in a wide angle

Defintely 1660ti becase it’s faster and cheaper, I’m surprised you can get it for 367 dollars, thats still very overpriced but compared to America that’s honestly a bargain in the current market lol

Well, out of the b550 boards, the Asus one is the only mATX one, so you lose a couple pci-e slots.  Up to you if it matters.
You do get the best onboard audio on the Asus board, S1200 (realtek alc1200 rebranded).  The Gigabyte has the a classic old (ancient really) ALC887, while the other two have a more recent ALC892 (acceptable).
The Asus board also has 2.5g ethernet while the others plan 1gbps ethernet but again, if you're not gonna use it who cares.
You get 6 sata on MSI boards, 4 on gigabyte and asus
For onboard video, the Gigabyte kinda sucks, as it has a hdmi and dvi out, while the others have hdmi and displayport. dvi sucks cause it limits you to 2560x1600 or something like that, while displayport can do 4k.
 
Yeah, features wise, the Gigabyte board sucks, should be avoided. Asus has most features but probably also highest price. It's OK design.
MSI boards ... they're basically same pcb, same components. just different paint job .. you can flip a coin, they're both solid boards.
The b550 gaming plus probably has some extra colored leds on pcb.
 
IF you can stretch your budget, check out MSI B550M Mortar (with or without wifi) :
https://www.pazaruvaj.com/dynni-platki-c3128/msi/mag-b550m-mortar-p568246521/
https://www.pazaruvaj.com/dynni-platki-c3128/msi/mag-b550m-mortar-wifi-p569229597/
 
Has the better onboard sound ALC1200 and 2.5g ethernet just like the Asus board, but also has usb type c front panel connector and overall it's a solid motherboard.
 
Compared to the Asus, it has 6 vs 4 sata connectors and better pci-e layout - on the Asus board if you install a standard video card, the second pci-e slot is blocked, unusable ... while the MSI Mortar board has nice spacing between the slots so you could put something in that second pci-e x16 slot.
It also has better placement of sata connectors and right angle usb 3.0, which would work better in lots of cases.

That won't support 5th gen Ryzen out of the box, and I don't think they have an older AM4 CPU they can use to update it.

Unless you need multiple PCIe 4.0 lanes aside from 1x m.2 slot, 1x PCIe 16x slot, and CPU chipset, get a B550.
 
For more guidance refer to this list:
 

Believe it or not the X570 MSI is by far the worst of all those boards in terms of VRM performance.
 
If you are not planning to OC any of those B550 boards are good, if you plan to potentially OC maybe get a 5800x/5900x one day, get the MSI or Gigabyte B550 options you listed.

The low end MSI X570 motherboards are pretty terrible for the price. Of their more affordable models, the only one that's good is the tomahawk (which is actually pretty fantastic)

So is it safer to go SSD? 

There all basically the same, so get whats cheapest. There probably all smr, but with backups speed really won't matter than much.
 
Get multiple drives in difference locations if the data is important, any of these drives will fail sometime, likely without warning.

Both should work, read your motherboard's manual to find out what the best layout is for 6 sticks.

That looks lovely! And more newbie friendly :)) 
I've canceled my other VPS subscription and will get this one 
 

Paying is not a solution... ain't gonna pay some Indian ugly mofo. 
 
Paying the pirates will encourage them to continue their evil deed, develop more ransomware even to infect your computer again. Suppose I send them money there is no guarantee that they will send you the decryption formula (if there is one)

Paying is not a solution... ain't gonna pay some Indian ugly mofo. 
 
Paying the pirates will encourage them to continue their evil deed, develop more ransomware even to infect your computer again. Suppose I send them money there is no guarantee that they will send you the decryption formula (if there is one)

Paying is not a solution... ain't gonna pay some Indian ugly mofo. 
 
Paying the pirates will encourage them to continue their evil deed, develop more ransomware even to infect your computer again. Suppose I send them money there is no guarantee that they will send you the decryption formula (if there is one)

Any chance of a virus?
 

your running at sata ii speeds.
 
My guess is seing the age of the laptop, that the sata port is running at sata ii max, its hard to know the exact amount of sata iii on the chipset and where it was used.
 
Id really not worry about it, it won't make a difference here.

check crystal disk info.
 
But really I wouldn't worry, sata ii vs sata iii won't make a big peformance difference, its the iops and latency that matter here, and you can still get almost the full iops and latency on sata ii.

not that I know of

Do you happen to have a benchmark result around? 

Maybe it's running SATA2 and the soecs sheet means "SATA3 compatible"? All SATA versions are compatible with each other, only speeds are different.

Nope, there would still be stuff reserved an probably some overhead to avoid unexpected crashes. 
 
Not giving the iGPU any memmory would result in no screenoutput through the iGPU. 
 
Its not a lot lost to windows and random bits like drivers. If you need more, second hand dimms are cheap. 

You can't. And 200 mb more wont give you any difference in performence in daily use. It isnt worth the struggle of hours of diagnosis

I mean if you like not having graphical output at all I'm sure there's a way. ?