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Hi Everybody I have recently purchased 2 m.2 drives that are exactly the same capacity from the same manufacturer. They are installed into an old B360 motherboard. One drive is a boot drive, the other is storage. I will be upgrading the motherboard to a B550. The new motherboard has dual M.2 Connectors and I want to make sure that I install the boot drive into the right M.2 connector. Is there a way to identify the boot drive with information from the computer that can then be checked against the physical drive (e.g. a serial number) Thanks

Looking to get a 2 tb ssd for gaming, but there is way too many options to choose from. The cheapest ones in my country (Lithuania) are in the photo.

Hi, I have a SK Hynix BC501 of 512GB installed under where my 2080 Ti exhaust his hot air. So, the disk is running at 80°C when my GPU is on full load (while disk empty and idle). The problem is that i want to put Windows on it but this may increase even more the temperature while Sk Hynix says that the operating tempereature are 0 to 70°C. Then, is it safe to put Windows on it or will there be instabilities or/and performances drop from the drive ? (also note that i can't move it to an other Nvme slot)

Ok so I finally have a reason to post on LTT. Today I got a 1TB Sabrent Rocket NVME Gen 4 drive today and decided its Win 11 time. I cleaned installed to the drive and everything seems ok but I keep getting weird SSD speeds , it works fine I restart and the it runs at about 800MBs on Seq, I cold start it then runs at about 3500 Mbs again until I restart. Also the Control Software crashes whenever I try do a speed test with it , not sure if that just Win 11. I have a B450 Tomahawk MB (not mx and on the last stable release bios) and a Ryzen 3600, so It should be running at Gen 3 speeds just fine. Going to try reseat it now but it would be super weird if that was the cause, I assume it would crash or BSOD if proper contact wasn't made.

Hey, this is my first "post" in a forum, i dont really know what to call it but doesnt matter. A few months ago it was confirmed that WD was intentionally reducing 50% of the potential of some blue and black nvme ssd. Im thinking of buying one for my first build because of the bang for the buck, but if it doesnt deliver on 100% of what im paying I would take another route. Does anyone know if they are "safe" to buy already? Thanks for reading at least :D

I bought my system in 3 months: 5900x Asus ROG 3080 V2 Trident Z Royal 32GB 3200MHz 980 Pro 2TB Asus X570-E Windows 10 Pro for Workstations The first few days I updated everything to the latest version (except BIOS), even firmware 980, after updating firmware 980 every once in a while when I was working on Chrome, the system froze, as if there was no SSD until the BIOS I updated and it was fixed. At that time, the power plan was ultimate performance. Now it is the same again and there are no problems while playing, it only happens when idle or working with Chrome. Now everything is the latest version. Here is the complete SSD scan by Magician:

I just bought a new Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 2TB and have been struggling to install it. It doesn't show up in bios, however it DOES show up in device manager as an Xvd. This is driving me crazy as I have no idea how to fix it.

Wasn't sure whether to put this under Motherboards, Storage, or Troubleshooting. TL;DR Is anyone successfully using a PCIe 4.0 SSD in the chipset M.2 slot on an Asrock B550 board? If so, what drive are you using? My story I have a B550 Phantom Gaming-ITX/ax that I was happily using with 2x PCIe 3.0 SSDs (2x Toshiba XG6 1TB). I'm using a Sliger SM580 case with a 280mm AIO cooler, so taking the system apart to access the rear M.2 slot (attached to the chipset) is a bit of an ordeal. At the time I was using a Ryzen 3700X, though based on what's going on the CPU shouldn't matter. Unfortunately, I don't remember exactly what BIOS revision I was on. I probably started with either 1.80 or 2.00, and based on the timing 2.10 was probably available, and I definitely would have tried flashing the latest BIOS as a troubleshooting step. When the ADATA S50 Lite (a PCIe 4.0 drive) came out last year, I jumped on it and got a 2TB model. I didn't get it for the speed -- it barely exceeds what PCIe 3.0 is capable of -- it just seemed like a decent, inexpensive 2TB drive. I wanted to throw it in the REAR M.2 slot (attached to the Chipset and running at PCIe 3.0) so that I'd be replacing the harder to access slot and I'd still be able to upgrade the front SSD slot at a later date with another large M.2 drive when I could afford it, when prices came down, when better drives came out, etc. Unfortunately, after tearing apart the system and installing the S50 Lite in the rear M.2 slot, putting it all back together, and booting my system back up, the drive didn't show up in Windows. It didn't show up in Disk Management, in the CLI tool diskpart, or enumerated as a PCIe device in tools like HWINFO. I checked in BIOS(UEFI) and the drive was not showing up there either. I'd already tested the drive in an external M.2 USB enclosure, so I knew the drive worked. The enclosure only supported PCIe 3.0, so I knew that, at least in some instances, the drive didn't have issues with backwards compatibility (yes, I'm aware a 4.0 drive SHOULD work in a 3.0 slot, but as I'm about to demonstrate, that doesn't always seem to be the case). I ended up tearing down my system again and swapped the S50 Lite into the Front M.2 slot (PCIe 4.0 attached directly to the CPU's PCIe lanes) and the XG6 into the rear slot. With this arrangement, both drives are detected and worked. For the last year or so this has served me fine, but now I'm ready to upgrade my 1TB XG6 to either a 2TB or 4TB drive. I don't really need more than PCIe 3.0 speeds for anything, so I don't have a problem slotting the new drive into a 3.0 slot (since I've already established that the S50 Lite can't go in the 3.0 slot), but the market seems to be shifting towards 4.0 drives, even in the budget range. I'm worried that if I buy another PCIe 4.0 drive I won't be able to use it in the rear slot. Does anyone have experience with using PCIe 4.0 drives on the chipset M.2 slot of an Asrock B550 motherboard? Have you had instances of it NOT working like I did? Have you gotten a drive to work? Thanks!

I am wanting to buy a Seagate BarraCuda 510 NVME m.2 SSD - just wanting/needing to know WHAT Heat Sinks are compatible (as it doesn't come with one) and where can I find this information.

Hi, I have MSI b450 Mortar Max with Ryzen 5 3600 and Oloy Warhawk DDR 4 1600 GB ram. My pc has Plait GTX 1650 Gaming Pro and PNy NVME 500 GB M.2 SSD Power supply is AIGO GP-650 with windows 10 I have reset my bios on my motherboard but the issue is there Then, I updated the bios on my motherboard but the problem is same. any suggestions?

We have a Dell OpliPlex 790 in the office for work and is currently using an HDD. I was planning to do an upgrade in the storage since we have a defective S340-15IWL Laptop which has a 512GB M2 NVME 2242 SSD. My goal is to set this SSD as main boot for my OS. What are the things I need to have to do an upgrade?

my spec is: MSI H310m Gaming plus Intel Core i3 8100 Gskill ripjaws 8GB 2400Mhz cl15 RAM MSI GTX 1060 450W rated Hontkey PSU 3 storage: 1TB HDD WD Blue 7200 RPM 128GB NVMe m.2 SSD (Adata XPG SX6000LNP) 120GB sata SSD (Hikvision HS-SSD-C100 120G) yesterday i checked my two SSD with CrystalDiskMark and found that sata ssd write speed is about 20% of the speed specified by the manufacturer and nvme ssd is about 50%. after that i booted into winPE and tried with many benchmark tools but always same result. nvme: sata ssd vs hdd: as you see my HDD seq write speed is better than sata ssd. does it normal? also i installed userbenchmark tool and after whole system benchmark i noticed my sata ssd has a bad rating: as you see my nvme has good rating in userbenchmark, but i guess still 400-600mb write speed is slow for nvme, right? i heard that a secure erase restores performance to its best, do you recommend it? how can i secure erase? things i tried before: 1. manually TRIM 2. deleting whole partition and creating new fresh partition 3. changing power plan to high performance 4. AHCI mode is already enabled 5. Partition alignment is already applied 6. checking ssds health (in CrystalDiskInfo sata ssd is 86% and nvme is 100%) 7. latest firmware already installed for nvme ( But for hikvision sata ssd it seems that the HikStorageSetup download link is broken: http://en.hikstorage.com/Question/DownLoadCenter?categoryId=d3687913-9bf5-409e-a1d4-2156e1103ebe )

I want to add another 1TB ssd to my laptop. My laptop already has a 1TB WD SN730 (came from the factory), its a pcie 3 nvme ssd. My laptop's processor only supports PCIe 3, so buying a gen 4 ssd wont be beneficial right? Need answer in terms of 1-whether is there any benefit of using gen 4 ssd, while processor/laptop motherboard support gen 3 2-is the benefit worth paying more 3-is there any benefit at all For doing raid 0, what are the conditions necessary? like do both the ssd s need to be of same type or of same manufacture, or any condition on similar lines. Will I lose previously stored data? Or can I just use both ssd s separately as independent drives? If I do so what am I losing on ?

My future build will involve a SATA6 SSD and/or m.2 nvme SSD. But, which part(s) I buy later depends on what would be practically better overall Ignoring price and considering both practicality and performance, is it better to: A) buy 2 separate smaller capacity SSD's (1x 250GB M.2 and 1x 1TB SATA6) and dedicating the OS on one and games on the other -OR- B) placing both the OS and games on a larger capacity 1TB or 2TB SSD (the SATA6 or M.2; though I think this might be slightly better overall) \ ( o . 0 ) / ????

My Samsung Magician failed to load when I woke my PC from hibernation and said to reinstall. I went to the Samsung Magician page and downloaded the latest version that was there. When I tried to install it I got an error saying the version I was trying to install was older then the already installed version. So I uninstalled it and installed the one from the website. I had previously set Over Provisioning for my drive and now that I reinstalled it shows 23gb of unallocated space and no Over Provisioning. What can I do to set that 23gb to Over Provisioning without losing any data? I'm using Windows 11 and my Boot Drive is a Samsung NVMe 970 evo 500gb as well as a Samsung 870 evo 500gb and a 2tb HDD.

Hi I have a motherboard with a heatsink to have on the SSD. Do I then pick an SSD without a heatsink or do I replace the one on the motherboard and have the one that comes with an SSD with a heatsink?

Hi mate ,i already purchased auros 500Gb nvme m.2 ssd gen 4 for my build Since ryzen zen3 out of stock in my country even if they got stock its too limited and if wanna purchased must go with bundle for a ridicules price , so my question is if i go intel 10gen system will it support my/detect on my gen4 ssd in intel base system since i found it only support gen3 ? Anyone tried before?

Hello everyone. I was wondering which NVMe m.2 ssd I should get. Someone suggested Patriot Viper VPN100. Can you suggest some good NVMe M.2 ssd for around 60-70$ ? I will put them on Asus X570 TUF motherboard.

how to know the ports and slots in my laptop and whether or not they're empty? Specially the SSD nvme.

Hi. This is kind an old topic/question but after search on web about it i found a little confusing and some how dispersed answers. So i ask here for some expertise. I have a 3905x cpu under a x570 board Aorus Master. This is a 24 pci lanes cpu. I got: 1x Nvme SSD 500GB pci 3.0 - primary disk. 1x HDD Sata 3.5" 6TB - secondary disk (files and library) 1x HDD Sata 2.5" 1TB - third disk (games installed) I need to now what is the limit i can reach on pci lanes before losing any kind of performance bandwith. And if i can get another Nvme SSD 1TB to change or keep the HDD 2.5" i got. Cheers.

DISCLAIMER: I've searched the forum, and i didn't find what i was looking for. I apologize in advance if there already is information about this, but I'm not familiar with the jargon enough to recognize it when it's there. ANYWAYS. I bought a 2016 Razer Blade with a 128 GB HD. got a good deal. Then i proceeded to hunt on ebay and got my hands on a Samsung NVMe sSD 960 EVO m.2 1TB. Now I'm trying to install the new HD into my notebook. I've done something like this before where I connected the new SSD to my notebook via USB. Cloned the drive. Then switched out the HDs and DONE. finito. This time, it seems the NVMe SSD is far too advanced and new for things like this... The best i could find was a M.2 NGFF external enclosure which can connect via USB. My question is this, can I buy this relatively cheap enclosure to perform a clone? It says it supports: B key end connector M key end connector B+M key end connector But the thing is... the enclosure says it is for NGFF m.2. Will it work enough for me to connect my NVMe drive to my notebook to just clone the data, so i can remove the old 128 SSD for my new 1TB SSD? Is there another way? Am I going about this the right way? I would really appreciate some help! Thanx in advance. -doubleo

I recently purchased a Samsung 970 evo and have been getting an error for 5 months now when trying to use it. I already have a HDD with windows 10 downloaded, however my computer does not want to boot from the HDD and displays the error "Reboot and select proper boot device." I wish I knew what the error was

Hi guys, i have a asus x470 gaming f, a 500 gb nvme ssd, a 1 tb hdd and a 120 gb ssd acelarating the hdd with the storemi software. I want to add another 500 gb nvme disk in raid 0, but when i select raid in the mobo settings the hdd just doesnt show up on windows. Im i doing something wrong?

So i recently bought this: https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-500GB-NAND-NVMe-PCIe/dp/B07J2WBKXF On the page it says the sequential reads/writes up to 2,000/1,700 MB/s. When i run the Crystaldisk benchmark I am getting Read-1928 MB/s Write -972 MB/s , is this normal? Motherboard: Msi B450M gaming plus. Processor: Ryzen 5 2400g Ram: Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR4 3000 MT/s

I Need to Know ASUS X510UF I5 Laptop Support NVMe M.2 SATA