Hi! Welcome back, I am a donkey. A while ago, we just finished the 2024 computer assembly precautions , and many viewers came to ask ! Bonnie can help you , can you also provide instructions on upgrading the SSD of laptops? No problem at all! Isn’t this coming? The installation of M.2 SSD is very simple , but there are still many small things that need to be paid attention to when installing it on a laptop. Today we have prepared six laptops at once to show you how to remove the D case. What should you pay attention to after taking it apart? Today we will explain clearly what are the key points when buying an additional laptop SSD. Get ready and let ’s get started! At the beginning of the program, we will teach you how to install M.2 SSD! What I have in my hand is an M.2 NVMe SSD. The M.2 you have always heard is actually the name of this interface. SSDs can be mainly divided into SATA M.2 B&M Key , which has two gaps. Connector and NVMe M.2 commonly used M Key is the one with only one notch in my hand. Almost all of the current mainstream high-speed hard drives can reach sequential read speeds of 2000, 3000 , 4000 or even 7000 , 10000 MB/s or above. To put it in a simpler way, the concept of a notched M.2 NVMe SSD is like USB A has this shape, USB C has this shape, iPhone’s Lightning has this shape, and the M.2 SSD of the NVMe protocol has this shape . Today we will focus on the introduction of M.2 NVMe SSD, hereafter referred to as M.2 SSD. It means that the SSD with this connector shape is good . So everyone knows the connector shape, right? Then M.2 SSD is usually followed by a set of numbers, such as comparison. The 22 on the common M.2 2230, M.2 2242 and M.2 2280 represents the width, and the unit is mm, which means the width is 2.2 centimeters. Please understand the meaning ! The following 30, 42, and 80 are also units of length. 2230 is an SSD with a length of 2.2 cm x 3 cm. The most mainstream 2280 is an SSD with a width of 2.2 cm x 8 cm. Among them, such as handheld consoles. For example, these handheld consoles on the screen are actually Small-sized computers usually use small-size SSDs with 2230 specifications. There are also a few thin and light laptops that choose M.2 2242-specification SSDs to save space . For example, the laptop in the picture chooses 2242 specifications to save internal space. Space , but speaking of it, most laptops and desktops currently still use M.2 2280. The larger area means that there is more space to use. In addition to being able to stuff more things , it can also avoid components. Stuffing them all together is also more conducive to heat dissipation of these high-heat, high-speed SSDs. So you can see that most of the SSDs sold on the market are still M.2 2280 in size. For example , I grab a box of SSDs here like This box is the WD Blue SN580 NVMe SSD. Special thanks to Western Digital for cooperating with this project and lending the SSD so that we can make this instructional video more worry-free. This is an entry-priced PCIe 4.0 SSD. Look at the packaging. You can now understand here . It already says M.2 2280, so when you take it out, it will be an SSD of this length . After a brief introduction to m.2 SSD, the next step is to install it! The installation of M.2 SSD is very simple. I will demonstrate it on the motherboard first. Basically, there are only three steps . The first step is to unscrew the SSD fixing screw and insert the M.2 SSD into the slot. This slot is already foolproof. Design short, long, long, don't hold it backwards. Step 2: Use a little force and stuff it in. Last step: Press lightly and lock the screws to complete. But what I want to talk about today is to expand the laptop . I'm a little worried. We explain clearly the steps to install the laptop. It's pretty simple. There are only three steps. First, open the D side. Step two, be sure to turn off the power first. Turn off the power first. Turn off the power first. So it's very important . After explaining the last step three times, plug in the M.2 SSD and tighten the screws and call it a day. I will take you through the actual first step. I would suggest you check how many SSD slots your laptop has , like You see, the one I have has two SSD slots. If you are not sure, it is fastest to ask the customer service of the laptop brand directly. Of course, if you want to replace the main SSD directly, then it is fine. Next, the second step. Let's disassemble the D side. The D side is divided into three types: easy to disassemble , easy to disassemble , and difficult to disassemble. For example, some models of ROG have a quick-release jacking design. You see, when you loosen the screws, D The surface will automatically raise a gap. At this time, you can easily insert the disassembly piece and slowly loosen the buckle. The D surface will be completely removed. This design is very easy to DIY. There is also another buckle tolerance. It's great . In fact, you only need a simple suction cup to hold the bottom cover of the D side. Pull up with a little force and the entire D cover will come off. The second option is that it is easy to disassemble. It is also recommended that you use a simple suction cup to open the gap and slowly loosen it along the surrounding areas. The buckle will come off like this. The only thing you need to pay attention to is that you must not use too much force to make a miracle. You can use the disassembly piece to find the tenon, then use the rotation method to turn the tenon upward, and the tenon will come off naturally. The last one is usually full metal D This kind of very tight-fitting model will be the most difficult to disassemble. It is recommended to use a suction cup and use a little force to open a gap . Insert the disassembly piece and slowly loosen and slide the card through the rotating disassembly piece just mentioned. Just snap it on. After disassembling the D side, it’s the third step. This step and the most important step is to turn off the power first! Please be sure to cut off the power first. Do not touch any part of the motherboard with your hands or screwdriver before cutting off the power. For example, ASUS has recently used this kind of battery buckle. Just gently push the metal piece above it and then push the battery cable up. To cut off the power , be sure not to pull it hard before pushing it away. For the Gigabyte machine, it can be removed simply by pushing it down with your fingernails . The Lenovo machine can be removed by pulling it down. There is a more extreme example , if you find that the battery is under the battery. The space is too narrow to cut off the power. Like this one, you can also carefully remove the battery module. Then disconnect the cable . Next, the fourth step is to find the location of the M.2 SSD slot. First unscrew the fixing screw. Some laptops will come with a heat sink. You can also remove it first. Then insert the SSD and tighten the fixing screw like this. It's over. Then , the next question comes! Are there any considerations when purchasing a laptop SSD ? Yes
, of course. This is why I borrowed a WD Blue SN580 NVMe SSD today. Although this is not the high-performance SSD product that everyone pays more attention to , such as their own WD_BLACK SN850X, which is a high-performance SSD. product , but if you want to install it in a laptop , then this SSD (referring to WD Blue SN580 NVMe SSD) can be said to be a great model for laptops. First of all, I recommend that you try to choose this SSD for installation in laptops. This is a single-sided design , that is, the particles and main control are both on the front and back of the SSD. Because some motherboard designs are very crowded, there are even many components under the SSD. For example, if you grab this laptop, there are ICs and rows under the SSD slot. wires and a bunch of small components. Firstly, it is a single-sided SSD. You don’t have to worry about whether the thickness will get stuck. Secondly, when pressed to the bottom of the laptop, the single-sided SSD will not touch the motherboard in a strange posture. Although the chance is not high , it is recommended. Prioritize single-sided. The second important thing I will pay attention to is that most laptops are not specifically optimized for heat dissipation where the SSD is placed. So if you are very concerned about the SSD temperature , you should pay special attention to the heat of the SSD. You see... The SSD slots of the two laptops I have are both using a compressed battery and placing the SSD slot next to the battery. It is actually okay to choose a double-sided SSD for this type , but because PCIe 3.0 and PCIe 4.0 SSDs are very hot. It is quite impressive , so you must pay special attention to the heat dissipation. For example, the D cover of this one has a thermal patch that can effectively help dissipate heat. So there are probably two ways to refer to the heat of the SSD. One is to directly refer to the actual measurements of major networks to see if there is a large amount of transmission. What is the temperature performance below ? Or you can also go to the SSD website to check for products that consume power but usually have low energy consumption. Their packaging is correct. If you look at WD Blue, this article just says low power consumption. These products with low power consumption usually have higher temperatures. It is relatively controllable , but usually this kind of low-energy entry-level SSD is mostly DRAM Less design. I don’t recommend using it as a system disk , but there is no problem if it is used as a laptop storage area, such as a creator’s audio and video archive and daily data. It is very suitable for archiving , so here is a summary of the three key points when purchasing laptop SSDs. First , choose the size. Everyone should have understood this before . Second , it is recommended to give priority to an SSD with a single-sided design. Third , friends who are concerned about temperature recommend looking for SSDs with low energy consumption and low heat generation are usually the second SSD area. Most brands do not specially enhance the heat dissipation design. Laptops do not have as many air ducts as desktop computers to help dissipate heat. This is why I chose this one to demonstrate this time. Although the reason is not high-performance orientation , it is single-sided, low-power consumption , and the single-particle components are also far apart to allow more room for heat dissipation. This type will be more suitable for laptops. You can follow these indicators to find the one that suits you. SSD. However, according to the practice of this channel , of course we have to test the performance of this SSD, right? But before that, we plug in the battery first and re-lock the D case. Some laptops have to be connected to the power supply before they can be powered on again after being powered off. So we plug in the power, and the way to set up the SSD at boot is also very simple. In the Windows Logo When you right-click and select Disk Management , you can see that the newly installed SSD is recognized here . Next, we right-click to add a simple disk volume . You can also name the disk volume. This is complete. Then we enter the performance measurement link. First of all, I saw the color box design of the boxed WD Blue SN580 NVMe SSD. It maintains the consistent family design of the recent WD Blue series. The box also directly indicates that this is a 1TB capacity M.2 2280 specification NVMe SSD that supports PCIe 4.0 interface 1TB This version has a read speed of 4150MB/s and a write speed of 4150MB/s. It also comes with a five-year warranty, but be careful when buying an SSD. It not only depends on how long the warranty lasts, but also on the TBW , which is the limit on the total amount of writes. The 1TB version provides 5 years or 600TBW. For entry-level purposes, 600 TBW is the normal level of performance , so the judgment of the warranty is very simple. It depends on whether 5 years or your writing volume comes first. The box content is that there is only one SSD and The instructions are correct. This sticker is one-sided and directly attached to the board, so there is basically no need to tear the sticker off. Let’s take a look at the hardware configuration on the SSD. The front part uses a single-grain solution. There is one of Western Digital’s own. 3D TLC NAND comes from SanDisk. The model shown in the picture is a single one. It is directly a 1TB controller. When we zoom in, it is also the main control model supplied by our own SanDisk. It adopts the design of DRAM Less. However, the price of the WD Blue SN580 NVMe SSD is just there. WD Blue is also a series that is relatively close to the people and easy to buy. It is worth mentioning that this article specifically mentions on the official website that WD Blue SN580 NVMe SSD adopts the new nCache 4.0 technology. In vernacular, it is the new generation SLC Cache hybrid algorithm independently developed by Western Digital . So In order to see how this nCache 4.0 performs, I will not test conventional benchmarking software first and go directly to the hell test. Here we directly prepared hell-level test materials. After all, there are no super complex large projects in this channel. Our hard drive We have prepared about half a disk of Premiere Pro with a total of 470GB and extremely complex After Effects project materials. We directly tested them in the situation where the creator is facing a large project. You can see that the performance of WD Blue SN580 NVMe SSD is really impressive. ! In the past, the transfer speed was almost stable at around 3.2GB. When the SLC cache was exhausted when the transfer reached about 350GB, there was still a transfer speed of 300-600MB/s until the end of the transfer. This performance is based on DRAM Less. It’s really fierce! This means that the first 350GB only took 2 minutes and 08 seconds to complete the transfer , which is very sufficient for the creator. After it is exhausted, there is still a speed of 300-600MB/s. The 470GB file takes about 6 minutes and 26 seconds to complete the transfer. If not For those of you who are very familiar with DRAM Less SSD, I have also prepared a previous generation WD Blue SN570 NVMe SSD to show you the differences. Generally speaking, such an extremely complex editing project will make the DRAM Less product invisible and reveal its true identity. You see, under the premise of fully formatting to ensure that the SLC cache has been released, the WD Blue SN570 NVMe SSD's 3GB/s speed only lasts for about 10 seconds, and then it can only fluctuate around 500-600MB/s . That's right! This is the DRAM Less that I am familiar with! The whole process took 13 minutes and 32 seconds to complete , so it is very clear from the comparison results. I really have to say that the nCache 4.0 of WD Blue SN580 NVMe SSD this time is really good! This performance is not even inferior to some SSDs with DRAM, which is a bit surprising . Anyway, I didn’t really believe in the results of DRAM Less. I really didn’t think about it. Another issue I am very concerned about is the temperature. We directly measured the 930GB large-scale SSD. The project directly fills up the entire disk. You can see that the test results are exactly the same as before. After the cache bonus is exhausted, it fluctuates around 300-600MB/s. However, the temperature is really beautiful. It starts from 33 degrees in standby and the first 350GB The temperature is relatively high , but the highest temperature is only 56 degrees. After the SLC cache is exhausted, it drops to maintain performance of about 50 degrees. We also installed it into Gigabyte's AERO 16 OLED laptop and used the thermal conductor provided with the laptop for actual testing. The pad test results are almost exactly the same as those of the desktop computer! For a large project that continuously writes 470GB, the starting temperature is 34 degrees for the first 350GB, and the maximum temperature is 50 degrees. Then it remains around 50 degrees until the transfer is completed. We also directly measured the maximum temperature of the SSD at the moment the transfer was completed through a thermal imaging camera. It was about If the temperature falls below 43 degrees, you really don’t need to worry too much, but don’t take it lightly. If your laptop does not come with a heat sink, it is recommended to prepare a thicker thermal paste like the one on the screen to allow the heat to escape. Directing it to the D shell will be very helpful for temperature control. In addition, there is also a little bit of WD Blue SN580 NVMe SSD. It is really very thin. It is recommended that you choose a thicker thermal patch to avoid the heat sink not touching the SSD at all. Next, we will Let’s take a benchmark test based on international practices! Also in accordance with international practice, let’s take a look at the specifications of the test platform. The CPU part uses the latest i7-14700K motherboard, which is MSI Z690 EDGE D4 32GB. There are four RAMs with a total of 128GB. Finally, an RTX 3090 test SSD will be installed on the bottom Z690. The fourth slot and cover the motherboard. The M.2 heat dissipation cover that comes with it is as close as possible to the installation situation of creators and general data disks. Then we will go directly to the test results. First, we will run a CrystalDiskMark WD Blue SN580 NVMe. The SSD can read 4161MB/s and write 4163MB/s when the disk is empty, which is in line with the official label and is a good performance for entry-level PCIe 4.0. However, the reading and writing under half the disk are not much different from the empty disk. We also compared the previous generation WD Blue SN570 NVMe SSD and WD Blue SN580 NVMe SSD in terms of the level that it should have . It is not surprising that the overall improvement here is more worthy of mention. The improvement of Q1T1 is clearly visible, and then we see the AS SSD 1GB. When testing WD Blue SN580 NVMe SSD, whether it is a half disk or an empty disk, there is not much difference in the data and it is above the normal performance. The main difference is that 4K-64Thrd writing has a slight impact on half disk. However, if we increase the test intensity, it will be directly Here you can fully see the advantages of WD Blue SN580 NVMe SSD in the performance of 10GB empty test disk. Compared with the previous generation WD Blue SN570 NVMe SSD, the performance of writing at 4K-64Thrd is only 137MB/s. WD Blue SN580 NVMe SSD directly Reaching 1863MB/s , the performance does not have much impact even if it is half the disk. The delay under the 10GB test also dropped from 0.605ms to 0.235. After looking at the performance of the speed test, we will also measure the output that the creator is more concerned about. Performance: We have designed a 10-minute long 4K Premiere Pro 2024 project and added the required special effects, font cards, and filters. It is basically a test project that simulates the general YouTube 4K editing requirements. Let’s take a look at the results first. Looking at the WD Blue SN570 NVMe SSD, it took a total of 7 minutes and 11 seconds to complete the output. How do you guess the performance of the WD Blue SN580 NVMe SSD? The answer is that it only took 2 minutes and 42 seconds to complete the output, saving 63% of the output time. This output performance is correct. The creator uses it as a data disk output, which is very useful. We use 3DMark's hard disk test to test game performance. A total of three games and four simulated situations will be tested. First, we will see the loading of Battlefield V WD Blue SN580. The difference between an NVMe SSD empty disk and a half disk is probably just a test error. However, compared to the previous generation, there is an improvement of about 13.4%. Then the loading of Call of Duty and Black Ops 4 also increased to 16.3%. The game is loaded. Finally, I see the loading. The speed increase of Enter the Fighting Agent increased to 15.7%. Basically, all projects have a 15% - 20% speed increase. The biggest difference is the indicator of mobile games. WD Blue SN580 NVMe SSD can reach 2700MB whether it is an empty disk or a half disk. /s or above , the performance of the previous generation was about 900MB/s, which is about three times improved . In the load test, we first tested the ATTO Disk Benchmark test. Basically, this is the Loading project that each SSD is best at. There is no big problem. OK! To sum up , overall, as a new member of the WD Blue series, the performance of the WD Blue SN580 NVMe SSD is still relatively online. Although it is not positioned as a high-performance orientation , WD Blue is a relatively affordable SSD in WD's price range. However , this one is a DRAM Less design. I personally recommend using it as a data disk with a single-sided single-grain large-spacing design. The temperature control of this one is really good. It is suitable for normal laptop expansion and is suitable for normal pens. Finally , everyone is welcome to join our computer component discussion community. If there are any activities or discounts in the future, they will be updated above, so join now! OK! This episode of the program will be here first, and I will try my best to condense the key points. I hope everyone will enjoy watching it. If you have any questions or things that the Bonnie team has not mentioned, please leave a message below to discuss~
