SATA TO SSD

[TechNoob97]

Hey guys, 

tech noob here, I built a pc during covid and have 500gb sata for my C drive and 1tb hard drive but I'm running out of space on my C drive and want to upgrade to a nvme atleast 1tb. 

 

What brands do you guys recommend. 

 

My budget is $100 canadian pesos but can go over a little if it's for a significant improvement.

 

TIA

 

[GuiltySpark_]

$100-120 CAD, Id get an SN5000 1TB. 

 

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/JFjRsY/western-digital-wd-blue-sn5000-1-tb-m2-2280-pcie-40-x4-nvme-solid-state-drive-wds100t4b0e

 

https://www.servethehome.com/wd-blue-sn5000-1tb-nvme-ssd-review/

 

For your use case, there i no reason to spend any more.

 

Almost nothing exists below $100 CAD.

 

 

[Needfuldoer]

16 minutes ago, GuiltySpark_ said:

$100-120 CAD, Id get an SN5000 1TB. 

Seconded.

 

If you get this drive, you can use the version of Acronis True Image that Western Digital gives away to clone your existing Windows install to the new drive.

 

https://support-en.wd.com/app/products/downloads/softwaredownloads

[TechNoob97]

So I just finished cloning my SSD to the new WD SN5000 M.2 and when I go to my bios to change the boot sequence to the new M.2 ssd, its not in the list. 

 

Any idea what might have gone wrong?

 

it still shows online under disk management

[DraconisMaximus]

16 minutes ago, TechNoob97 said:

So I just finished cloning my SSD to the new WD SN5000 M.2 and when I go to my bios to change the boot sequence to the new M.2 ssd, its not in the list. 

 

Any idea what might have gone wrong?

 

it still shows online under disk management

Make sure you took out the old boot drive (and any bootable USBs you may have used for the cloning process) before attempting to boot to the new one. If that still fails, try taking out the new one and letting the motherboard boot empty before shutting down again and installing only the new boot drive. Sometimes the UEFI/BIOS has trouble differentiating between two essentially identical bootloaders.

[TechNoob97]

yeah I had to disable the old sata ssd in bios to get to boot from the new nvme. it works now. I formatted the old drive so there's no other bootable drives anymore.