SSD 850 EVO

JasonR. · April 21, 2017

I just got my samsung 850 evo 500gb ssd. The usb to sata cable is here I hook them up but the samsung magician It dosent recognize that I have an ssd. My pc sees it as ASMT 2115 SCSI Disk Device, I can pute files on it if I wanted like it was a normal usb drive, But since it cant tell it's the evo I cant get past that part to image copy my overly large green wd hard drive that came with the pc. Also current bench marks are way slower than stated (wich may be due to this issue). I just wish to use this for boot and my larger games like quake and wildlands or even eve online for no reason. I dont know what I'm doing wrong. I hope someone can help me before I just repackage this and send it back for a refund.

-rascal- · April 21, 2017

16 minutes ago, JasonR. said:

I just got my samsung 850 evo 500gb ssd. The usb to sata cable is here I hook them up but the samsung magician It dosent recognize that I have an ssd. My pc sees it as ASMT 2115 SCSI Disk Device, I can pute files on it if I wanted like it was a normal usb drive, But since it cant tell it's the evo I cant get past that part to image copy my overly large green wd hard drive that came with the pc. Also current bench marks are way slower than stated (wich may be due to this issue). I just wish to use this for boot and my larger games like quake and wildlands or even eve online for no reason. I dont know what I'm doing wrong. I hope someone can help me before I just repackage this and send it back for a refund.

The Samsung 850 EVO doesn't come with a USB-to-SATA enclosure; which model / type of enclosure are you using?

Your computer / machine is detecting the enclosure (ASMT 2155 controller), and thinking it is some USB storage device -- and NOT a Samsung SSD.

If you want to mirror your mechanical HDD onto your 850 EVO, the SSD should be connected natively through a SATA port on your motherboard.

Since you are running it through a USB connection, you will NOT get the advertised read / write speeds.

The USB interface, even for USB 3.0, is a bandwidth bottleneck compared to SATA III -- it will be EVEN worse if you are using USB 2.0.

Not only the port, but performance may vary depending on the USB-to-SATA enclosure you use.

19_blackie_73 · April 21, 2017

well at least for one part i can help you: as you only connected via usb, it is very normal to be way slower than advertised.

That you can't clone it is partly because your source location, the hdd, is probably bigger than the ssd. Do you have one specific partition for the os or do you only have a single big partition on it?

ONE important thing: always back up your data on a external drive when doing sth like that.

I really recommend doing a clean install of windows, especially as you seem to use the installation of a prebuilt. for that, back up your important data, save games and whatnot you like to keep, unplug the hdd, put the ssd in the system, install windows, then plug the hdd back in, boot again (make sure to boot from the ssd), then delete all the partitions on the hdd and then put your personal data back on.

JasonR. · April 21, 2017

I dont have a windows disc. My alien ware took a dump due to the amd video card no one could explain. (not saying it was amd but the problem was around there for some reason). Dell sent me this new pc for my warrenty one of those area 51 models wich has been great but I do not have a windows disc. lol or if i did it's gone now. becuase black I like your idea. I understand the usb issue, I can plug into the pc as it has a slot already for a ssd but was told I have to use usb first to mirror and clone. I mostly want windows to boot from this drive and have my higher end games on it, the 4 tb green wd drive still works great it's just slow. I plan to use it for storage still. I migrated allot of files to my 2tb wd black drive for now, everything else as you can imagine is downloadable again, not much to loose.