Upgrade to M.2 SSD on ANY Desktop PC. PCIe 4x Adapter install and Testing, Samsung 970 Evo

place the file in destination whoo that was so fast and that's going from regular SSD to the newest one so that was over 350 megabytes per second write and read speed and now I'm gonna copy to itself so this is the newest one we're gonna copy and make a copy of a file to itself so this is going to be read and a write speed combined to itself oh my god that was insanely fast hello everyone my name is urban also known as coal man in today's video I will show you how to upgrade your computer to the latest MDOT - type of solid-state drive so that way we have the latest and the fastest and the greatest performance ever when it comes to hard drives right so this is the best one this is the current one 970 Evo nvme m dot 2 with the v-nand SSD which is the new type of memory that they switched over from a standard solid-state drives a type of memory that it's used anyways without boring you too much here's a problem a lot of times we want the best but we don't necessarily want to spend a whole lot of money on buying a new computer and we want to install one of these and this is what they look like this is one of these m2 solid-state drives and the problem comes when we try to install into our computer that is few years old chances are it will not have this type of slot which it has these two types of notches so let's open it up this is a HP 800 G 2 type of computer so let's say you have one of these or something like it or anything that you know a little bit older it's not going to have a place for you to put this it's simply not so if you look here where where can you put this doesn't go there definitely not there this is our PCI Express 16 time slot chances we're gonna have a video card here so that's out of the question these two are PCI Express times two I believe times 1 I'm sorry these are times 1 and the next available thing we have is PCI Express times 4 which is this white one so you know either way we can't there's no place to put this then what can we do about that well we can buy an adapter that we can use to plug in our solid-state drive that is the fastest right so an option to that is so one option that we have is to buy one of these adapters this one is by Ventech and there will be a link in the description box just to make sure you guys buy the correct one thank you very much if you do buy one and this one is an adapter for m2 and vm e plus and also has a SATA m dot 2 SATA SSD and it goes inside of PCI Express times 4 so as I mentioned earlier we just want to make sure that we have one of these white slots which is PCI Express times 4 so this is perfect we have it free now we can install our adapter it is crucial to make sure you buy the correct one so I will link you the proper one inside the box we have our adapter now you can see that there is a slot for our hard drive now we can insert our hard drive and the way we would do that is by inserting it as so just a sec I will zoom in so you guys can see this properly now we have a place for our hard drive there is a little slot that matches just like so and then we can now insert it precisely like this a little bit on an angle sort of like memory in a laptop so you go angle and you gently push it in to make sure that the copper connectors are no longer visible and then we simply lower it it's gonna be a little bit of low bowstring action but we do have a little hole here which we are going to use a screw and a washer to attach it's super simple they come with the package by the way the package for this adapter also comes with this really nice screwdriver so you don't actually have to have your own so it is a tool you need but you don't actually have to have one because it does come with it it's very surprising I've never seen an adapter which only costs about $15 they came with a screwdriver and it came with screw and a washer which are these not to try to angle this properly as I can see how this gold color one has a rule it's a little bit different and it goes underneath here so if you have a same type of drive which I will link in the description box you can use this washer insert it from underneath as so and just kind of hold it with your index finger or whichever finger you prefer now we're going to use this screw to attach it now we're going to use our screwdriver they came with the adapter and then we're going to screw it in ah good thing it's magnetic otherwise I've sort of lost it right now doesn't help that I had quite a bit of coffee this morning so I'm a bit shaky ah come on I promise you it's not this difficult just that I'm clumsy there it is okay so once you get it caught like that I'm gonna get you a little good angle here just gently screw it in you don't have to force nothing no you know you don't need a lot of just very gently as soon as you feel it's tightening you're done you know so now it's just it's not going anywhere by the way this I have attached a plate back plate for a low profile computer which is this one so it will come by default read a regular standard size plate for a regular computer for regular size desktop right for like a mid Tower or something like that it does come with a low profile adapter which is great because my 800 g1 is a low profile computer so I went ahead and catch that I did notice about this adapter that this is actually a little bit long it could be that my case is a little bit bent but I left a little bit loops here right so it's not a big deal so I just left a little bit loose to make it easier for me to actually install this drive so just slightly loose as long as it's in there and it has a little bit of room because for me it was a little bit difficult to align this with the PCI Express slot times 4 and of course you have a room for another drive which is used for that SATA so if you connect the SATA you can connect the drive here this is what this is for this one is specifically used from at peace to a PCI Express times 4 which is should be quite a bit that should be a lot faster than just a regular SATA right ok now that we have this connected I'm going to insert it into our PCI Express x 4 of course always be gentle with installing these there's a little gap underneath here I hope you can see it I'll try to kind of lift it up there's a little gap underneath every time you install a card that you have to make sure that this part goes inside off and I had a time I removed the hole just the protective back play that used to be here and now I'm going to insert this as so so again be gentle take your time you know all the all computers are different in generally speaking all computers will have one of these white slots which is what you need then I'm just gonna align it once I know it's aligned properly I'm just going to push it down and there it goes the way you know it's pushed in all the way is that you don't see any copper connectors now you're good to go and I'm gonna close this up I'm going to connect this just in case although I'm not using it the slot for the SATA connector but I'm gonna connect it anyways just in case I decide to use it for something later that's that and with that being installed I'm going to put my cover back on I'm gonna go to my computer and show you what you need to do next after this ideally speaking this should just show up as a drive on your computer and then you all you got to do is just format it which I will show you real quick - it's no big deal but if you were trying to use it as a boot drive you can certainly do so depending on your computer you may have to go to BIOS and make some changes in there for it to show up properly maybe not but just keep that in mind if you can if you're trying to install OS on it on a fresh computer and you don't see it make sure you go inside a BIOS and make appropriate changes okay let's go to our computer and see so with the hardware installed itself and the computer turned on what is the first thing we're going to check well obviously we're going to check to see if our drive shows up as you may have noticed my computer here has two drives installed and to see if the third one is installed we're going to go to this PC and unfortunately our drive doesn't show up well why is that as I mentioned earlier we will have to format the drive in order to show up if we want to get a little bit more technical to make sure that our adapter that we've installed for our drive is installed properly we can check that first so let's do that real quick and then we're gonna go and format our drive and set it up properly so it actually shows up the way you do that is through the device manager so if you all have you know Windows 10 you can just type in device device manager go through that or alternatively you can just type in you know my computer which is all the way of saying this PC on Windows 7 but it's this PC on Windows 10 so once you have that you may have an icon on your desktop as well you can just right click it select properties and then from there you can access device manager so let's open up our device manager and see if there are any errors you know we would expect to be sub errors because our drive is not showing up but they're not because everything is actually correct we just have to do a little bit configuration so in order to see if R and V am driver controller has been installed we're going to go to storage controllers we're going to expand that to see and then we can at the bottom see that we do have indeed standard nvm Express controller in stalled these other two are for our SATA loopback controller storage space controller and VHD loopback controller we don't have to worry about that at this point we do want to make sure that this here is installed without any issues this indicates to us that the adapter works perfectly so this is all good so now let's go format our drive so that way we can see it the one one way to do that is through our manage options and this is find again with this PC or my computer and then going to right-click it and then we're going to manage our storage from there not to confuse you we're just going to right-click on this PC my computer or whatever it is that you have and then we're going to select manage which is right here we're going to select manage and then we're going to look for storage which is right here and then we're going to look for disk management because we know that we may installed a disk or this is an old way of saying you know hard drive but because it's actually no longer at this it's actually kind of funny but this is where it's going to be so we're going to select that and we're going to see what happens and the system has found our drive immediately and it's asking us what kind of style of partition do we want and this is where we can create tell it to create a Master Boot Record type of partition on this pci express m dot two slot drive but you know so you can select that if you want to click OK and it's going to create a type of partition for a boot type of partition for that I will go ahead and leave it at GPT and it's a new type of partition that is not recognized by a previous version of windows so Windows 7 will not have this option whatsoever I'm going to click OK and now we have our partition here which hasn't been allocated so basically what this does is tells we tell the computer how much of the storage we want to use because if we go back here to our computer here we can still see I'm gonna refresh this it's still not showing up because all it is is just a partition hasn't been allocated in the sense where we need to tell the computer how much of it do we want to use and we want to use all of it why not why would we want to not use all of it so we're going to right-click it here we know this is our drive you know and we're going to select new simple volume and this is self-explanatory we're just going to click Next on this wizard we're going to leave it at default and we're just going on click Next again here you can change the letter if you really want to I will change it I will just leave it at E to make it simple and there are other things you can do both right now we're just you know installing this drive so that we can use it if you are interested in a lot of other IT stuff or computer related stuff that go into details about this stuff you know you can certainly go through my channel I have a lot of videos like that then we're going to click Next and I'm going to format it I'm gonna leave it NTFS you know because you know it's internal we're not gonna use anything else so leave everything a default you can label it there's something else in my case I'm going to be using this as a scratch drive for my video editor because it's fast Adobe catch so I'm gonna call it that and I'm gonna perform a quick format I am going to click Next and then finish just to confirm that everything is what I want and as you can see it appeared immediately here and now we're gonna go inside of that so every time you you know partition a drive and then you have to reformat it it actually is less of actual storage if you will you guys probably know this already if a drive is 256 gigabytes after you format it it's actually goes down to 232 there is an explanation that anyways I'm not gonna bug you about the technical aspects of this we're just gonna see how fast that is so this is our regular standard Drive this is magnetic Drive it is not even a solid state this one is solid state so let's go do a quick test to see why you would even want to do this I'm just gonna go here and I'm going to let's do this I'm just going to take one of my old videos here these are pretty large 4k video this is seven point nine to seven if let's do this one a 755 megabyte let's see how fast we can copy this to our regular solid state I'm going to create this this is a regular solid-state drive as a boot system this is not the one we installed so this is all s SSD and I'm going to create new folder in here we're going to call this one optical drive old-style of hard drive okay I'm going to send create desktop shortcut this is just so we can tell the test in between we're gonna copy back and forth and we're going to create another folder inside of our new this is our brand new m-dot to drive and I'm going to send that to desktop so that way we can test to see how fast we can copy from from each to right okay gone sort them like this so this is old newer the best the newest which is what we have installed here so I'm going to copy from old this is old one we have going to go inside of it I'm going to open it up here old-style operating system and m dot too so the video I've selected here was 755 megabytes let's see how fast it will it will write this into our regular solid-state drive so this is our regular old this is our old drive right this is all dry I just want to make sure that that's clear this is old we're going to copy to itself it's kind of we're gonna see write and read speeds in real time and I'll just show up and windows just gonna show how fast it's going so we're gonna do this I'm gonna paste it so it's copying to itself and it's about it says about 10 seconds that doesn't mean much okay so we're we're seeing around 40 megabytes per second on average when it comes to speed now we're going to copy from old to new and then I'm gonna copy to itself afterwards so this is testing speed to the new one to the newer one and look at that it's almost hundred megabytes per second and now we're gonna copy from the old one to the newest one so what we saw here is the around hundred megabytes per second actual speed actual speed to regular solid state now this is the newest one from the old one keep in mind and this is also going about the same speed this is because the read speed from the old one is limited to that so now we're going to copy from standard SSD to itself just to see look at those speeds it does start off strong but it does taper down to sixty ish right so the read speed on this one on the regular style state is around that in real time now we're gonna copy from this to that to the newest one that we have place the file in destination roof that was so fast and that's going from regular SSD to the newest one so that was over 350 megabytes per second write and read speed and now I'm gonna copy to itself so this is the newest one we're gonna copy and make a copy of a file to itself so this is going to be read and a write speed combined itself oh my god that was insanely fast that was insanely fast okay okay so I'm gonna do it again oh my god that was so fast guys so really why would you not want this especially if you're doing video editing this is so insanely fast I'm actually mind blown because I've never had one of these myself this is crazy fast oh my god alright guys I hope that wasn't too much to keep up with and I hope I demonstrated that properly but the speed of that was just insane and again if you're interested in any of this there are links in the description for this adapter and for this drive insane speeds guys thank you so much please tell your friends about this I really do appreciate it and I am here for you if you have any questions if you need any help in regards to this thank you so much have a good day buh-bye oh man I can't wait to play with this

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Length: 23min 26sec (1406 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 29 2018