Question about an NVME I ordered

[Bananamanplayz]

Hey so, I bought a Sabrent nvme m.2 issue is the drive is 4k sectors by default and I want to transfer my OS on it, It has a converter you can download to convert it to 512e sectors. I sorta understand this but am curious if after i transfer my OS and stuff from my ssd to the nvme if I could/should convert it back to the 4k or if that would even be possible/worth it. Thanks

[Mira Yurizaki]

My gut feeling is all SSDs made in the past 5+ years are 4K sector drives (since page are commonly 4K), so it shouldn't be running 512e unless you were using an OS that doesn't understand 4K sectors

[F___M]

well, I think you are overthinking this.  Clone the drive. boot it.

[Bananamanplayz]

18 minutes ago, F___M said:

well, I think you are overthinking this.  Clone the drive. boot it.

 

18 minutes ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

My gut feeling is all SSDs made in the past 5+ years are 4K sector drives (since page are commonly 4K), so it shouldn't be running 512e unless you were using an OS that doesn't understand 4K sectors

Well alot of people reviewing it said they had issues transfering files from a 512 to a 4K so they made a converter to convert it from the 4K it ships with to 512 to be compatible with transfering OS since thats what I wanna do is transfer my OS and other files from my SSD to the NVME, Im using windows to add on to the answer by mira, below I added an image of the converter

Edited July 9, 2019 by Bananamanplayz
Added more info I missed

[Mira Yurizaki]

Just now, Bananamanplayz said:

Well alot of people reviewing it said they had issues transfering files from a 512 to a 4K so they made a converter to convert it from the 4K it ships with to 512 to be compatible with transfering OS since thats what I wanna do is transfer my OS from my SSD to the NVME

They may be cloning from an HDD that was using 512e. First make sure the SSD is even using 512e by:

• Opening a command prompt as an administrator
• Type in fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo <drive letter>:
• If it shows up as 512, the drive is using 512e. If it's 4096, then it's using 4K.

[Bananamanplayz]

1 minute ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

They may be cloning from an HDD that was using 512e. First make sure the SSD is even using 512e by:

• Opening a command prompt as an administrator
• Type in fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo <drive letter>:
• If it shows up as 512, the drive is using 512e. If it's 4096, then it's using 4K.

I actually thought about that and checked and my ssd says its 512

[Bananamanplayz]

9 minutes ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

They may be cloning from an HDD that was using 512e. First make sure the SSD is even using 512e by:

• Opening a command prompt as an administrator
• Type in fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo <drive letter>:
• If it shows up as 512, the drive is using 512e. If it's 4096, then it's using 4K.

[Mira Yurizaki]

2 minutes ago, Bananamanplayz said:

I actually thought about that and checked and my ssd says its 512

At this point I would forgo cloning and either create a system image and restore from that (although this requires a lot of space) or install Windows on the new SSD, reinstall the programs you're using, and copy your data over (I have a guide on copying data here: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1012553-how-to-copying-application-data-in-windows-to-other-windows-installs/)

 

[Bananamanplayz]

2 minutes ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

At this point I would forgo cloning and either create a system image and restore from that (although this requires a lot of space) or install Windows on the new SSD, reinstall the programs you're using, and copy your data over (I have a guide on copying data here: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1012553-how-to-copying-application-data-in-windows-to-other-windows-installs/)

 

How badly would performance be effected if I used the converter to make the NVME 512e?

Edited July 9, 2019 by Bananamanplayz
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[Mira Yurizaki]

Just now, Bananamanplayz said:

How badly would performance be effected if I used the converter to make the NVME 512e?

I don't know. It could be bad, especially if the partition is not 4K aligned.

[Bananamanplayz]

Just now, Mira Yurizaki said:

I don't know. It could be bad, especially if the partition is not 4K aligned.

I mean I read that many people got it to work. my only concern is how badly the read and write might be effected