NVME M.2 Identification

[Brats00]

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

[JeffreyLF]

Just put the one that's the boot drive in and leave the other out, set as boot priority, then put the other one that isn't the boot drive in

[Brats00]

Unfortunately, that's the problem, I don't know which is the boot drive. When I installed the 2 new drives they were just for storage. I then changed one to a boot drive and got a fresh install of Windows. I do not want to work the problem out by removing one drive and then seeing what happens if I don't have to

[Electronics Wizardy]

Use something like crystal disk info to see the serial number on the boot drive. That should also be printed on the drive.

 

And the boot drive can be in any slot, and it really won't matter performance wise.

[JQam]

10 minutes ago, Brats00 said:

I don't know which is the boot drive.

if you go into the UEFI and go to the boot screen, you should be able to see which one it is.  You can also create a live usb of something like https://gparted.org/.   in the gparted program there's a drop down on menu on the top right.   Select the drive and you should see partitions similar to my screenshot.  Remove a drive then refresh to see if its still there or not.

 

 

 

[Brats00]

from what I can see on the specs of my motherboard one of the m.2 connectors runs through the chipset the other is direct to the CPU. I was under the impression that that would mean a difference in performance between the two. Or, would the performance be negligible

[Electronics Wizardy]

6 minutes ago, Brats00 said:

from what I can see on the specs of my motherboard one of the m.2 connectors runs through the chipset the other is direct to the CPU. I was under the impression that that would mean a difference in performance between the two. Or, would the performance be negligible

The performance differenc eis negligible. You won't notice the different in almost all applications. I'd just put the drives in.

[IkeaGnome]

If you remove one and don’t have Windows anymore, you know which one has Windows on it.