new motherboard, questions about nvme

[goto10]

i built a new ryzen pc, well, sort of new

 

i kept most parts from the old pc, only bought a r3 2200, a gigabyte b450m dsh3 and a corsair 2x4 ram kit

 

i kept the hard disk and ssd from the previous build

 

i found a sort of deal on a adata sx6000 m.2 nvme 256gbs ssd, around 45 dollars more or less

 

i dont like the brand much, but it seems that is decent enough as i found on reviews, that got me confused if is sx6000, pro or xpg, i will have to find out that part on the store because adata doesnt explain if is 1 or 3 products

 

i want to use it as boot drive and to store a couple games i want fast access, gta v mostly

 

i have 3 concerns about the idea

 

1. the motherboard doesnt have a m.2 heatsink, should i be worried or buy a heatsink? will only be used for a couple games

 

2. i never worked with nvme m.2 ssds, any tips i should follow? havent found much information on bios details and that sort of stuff in youtube and forums, well, information for a nvme noob like me

 

3. i want to migrate the partition on the ssd, any tips about that? i think i should use a liveusb like clonezilla to clone from the ssd and then put the image in the nvme, any suggestions on this step?

 

i would like to move to nvme for 3

reasons, use the m.2 slot on the motherboard, gain more fast storage space and learn more in the process, if i keep using sata, well, i will never learn more, right?

[Aimi]

3 minutes ago, goto10 said:

1. the motherboard doesnt have a m.2 heatsink, should i be worried or buy a heatsink? will only be used for a couple games

I highly doubt your drive will get hot enough to be a concern. My M.2 only has a heat spreader and I've never had any issues.

[mariushm]

no need for heatsink for m.2 , the ssd is not fast enough to get hot enough to need a heatsink.

Seems that sx6000 uses 2 pci-e lanes, and it's rated for 1 GB/s read , 800 MB/s write speeds so nothing fancy. Budget series. This again means unlikely it will get hot.

[goto10]

good tho know, thank you for the replies

 

any tips on the install and migration and the configuration on bios?

[DYYT]

Some heatsinks are even worse than no heatsink because they are not properly shaped for cooling. U can use EaseUs for transfering os i think.

[goto10]

my concern with tools is if i should create a boot usb or liveusb tool, this easeus seems to be a tool you install, usually that is the fastest way tp get in trouble when cloning partitons, but i am worried on how tp detect the nvme, ise it as the cloning destination and then boot from it

 

as i mentioned i know nothing about nvme process

[goto10]

well, i went to buy the adata and it was adata sx6000 lite, it was more expensive than it was yesterday and i dont like the brand much so i went to other store, i found 5 dollars cheaper this one

 

https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Solid-State-Drive/GIGABYTE-M2-PCIe-SSD-256GB#kf

 

i had some problems clonning because i couldnt use a acronis usb tool i had around from a wd ssd, these oem acronis require the presence of a wd disk on the pc, i ended using another solution, it cloned from the old kingston ssd to the nvme in like 5 minutes

 

in the first boot with the nvme it refused to boot, it went to win10 bsod

 

then i remembered i read somewhere that you need the nvme driver to be present in the windows install so win10 can boot, so i restarted pc from the ssd one las time, windows indeed installed something but didnt said what, then i could access the nvme normally

 

i ran the clone process again, turned off pc and removed ssd, the first nvme boot windows again installed something and thats it, i have now a nvme boot drive working

 

i ran crystaldiskmark and cristaldiskinfo

 

it reads at around 1600mbs and writes at almost 1000mbs, this is a pci express 2x unit, those are impressive numbers i think

 

at idle it runs at around 38°c. and under load it goes up to 56°c. so yes, it can run without heatsink under normal circumstances and it seems it will not trothle easily

 

one thing i notice is that to boot windows the load speeds are not much faster than with the ssd, i guess that if you jump from a hard disk to a nvme must be a colossal improvement but from a ssd to nvme is not that incredible, at least on the way i use it