A low price on this excellent and popular M.2 NVMe SSD with free shipping.
If you don't mind waiting a few extra weeks you can get it slightly cheaper from Amazon UK.
- Capacity : 1TB
- Form Factor : M.2 (2280)
- Read : 2,400 MB/s
- Write : 1,950 MB/s
- Interface : NVMe PCIe Gen3x4
You could clone it but a I think a lot of people use it as an excuse to do a clean install for a bit of a forced tidy up. I don't see why you're licence should be invalid just because you're changing the HDD.
Will the license key still be valid if I clone OS from the SATA SSD to this new NVMe SSD? TIA
It should be fine, if not you just ring the MS number and they'll reactivate you
In my experience with thousands of clones it won't be an issue.
You can normally extract your key with Magic Jellybean Keyfinder or SterJo Keyfinder. Both may set off your anti-virus as they view product key extractors as malicious when they're not.
Thanks both for your tips. I probably should make it clearer before. Does it work if I want to clone it and use it on a new PC that has no license code? I don't expect it to work otherwise MS would have lost money?
@jus0212: you can download win10 and not activate for free, all legal https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
You get a shit wallpaper, with no ability to change.
I plan to do this then buy an activation key for $20. I believe this is all completely legal.
@jus0212: I just did this and the license became invalid. So I just used HWIDGEN and reactivated it for free.
Clean install. Most of the times Windows will activate itself automatically. You could also enter in your old key. If your key is associated with your Microsoft account then once you login Windows will activate.
Win10 checks the licence against the CPU/motherboard combo, not the HDD or SDD. So a clean install will recognise your existing machine straight away and the licence associated with it. You can also but a clone tool to copy from the old to the new drive.
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So.. is this better than the samsung or crucial nvme drives?
Doesn't the Samsung EVO have better R/W speeds
Samsung Evo is definitely the best. This vs the Crucial P1 is a tough call, but I think the general consensus is that the SN550 is better.
Any suggestions for a (cheapish) external enclosure I could use this in?
Just search UGREEN NVME Enclosure
This or the Kingston A2000?
Performance is so close they're pretty much identical. Get whichever is cheapest.
The WD is certainly the most stylish NVMe.
Doesn't really matter if you intend on putting a heatsink on it.
Go with SN550. SN550 has faster IOPS and has a higher life expectancy. Only downside is slower write speed when compared to A2000, but not by much.
It's a pity they ran out of stock on the 500GB model so quickly.
Any good enclosure to fit this ssd as external drive on ps5 for ps4 games？
Don't quote me on this but I believe there is an internal m.2 slot in the ps5
That internal slot is currently disabled by Sony and it only take Sony certified Gen 4 nvme SSD, no one knows when those will become available
For a gaming pc is the difference between this and the samsung evo noticeable at all? (approx $40 price difference)
I am of the opinion that the difference is not noticeable at this stage (unless transferring or writing very large files).
However, I really don't know what the future will hold. It is expected that future games will be able to make better use of fast NVMe storage. Maybe the difference between a 970 Evo and a SN550 will be noticable then? Maybe it still will be a negligible difference?
(I recently bought the SN550 for a build I am doing. It was ~$135 on Amazon UK via Amazon AU).
This is a DRAMless SSD with a small SLC cache and slower direct to to TLC write speeds. The Samsung 970 Evo is technically far superior with DRAM, larger SLC cache and an inhouse developed controller.
But in saying that, for gaming there will be hardly any noticeable real life difference between these 2.
If you're frequently copying large files the Samsung will have better sustained write speeds though.
Thanks for the replies guys. It does seem the 1tb crucial and wd drives get down to this price semi often so ill probably hold off for a while (slowly piecing together a new build)
Quick question about the cache and stuff you mentioned. Even with those shortcomings, this is still a lot faster than SATA, right? or do those shortcomings kind of make it just as fast as SATA, or only like double digit percent better than SATA, etc?
Yeah it's still more than 2x faster than a SATA drive but when it comes to things like game load times there's very little difference even with a top end NVMe drive and a low end SATA drive. I'd still go with a NVMe drive over SATA though if your PC supports it.
great price!
I tried to look for an answer, but doesn’t seem to get a direct one. To my knowledge I can put this in a M2 enclosure to use as an external memory drive. However, is there anyone know if I can actually benefit the “speed” of M2 e.g. 2400/2000 Read/write, via that method and connecting to a USB-C Port on a laptop top (mine is MacBook Pro 16inch)? Or should I not bother and just buy a cheaper 2.5 SSD instead?
Thanks in advance!
Putting this in an M.2 NVMe enclosure and using it with a USB-C to USB-C cable that supports USB 3.1 Gen 2 transfer speeds will certainly be faster, but I don't think you're going to get any major gains unless you plan on transferring very large files. Getting an enclosure that's NVMe instead of SATA and the correct cable will probably be more difficult and expensive than a 2.5" drive.
So yeah I'd say go for a 2.5" portable.
Thanks heaps, Clear! I think I might still be able to benefit from the extra speed as I have a ton of raw photos to be transferred very regularly. Would it be possible to recommend an enclosure of top of your head? I saw someone recommended UGREEN NVME Enclosure, is it worth spending extra and see if it can provide better reliability? Or they are all more or less same quality?
Thanks again!
NVMe enclosures can be tricky. The most important thing to look for is what Chipset is being used in them.
JMicron JMS562 and JMS583 are budget chipsets plagued with issues in NVMe enclosures. They draw a lot of heat and power constantly resulting in thermal throttling, disconnections and slow transfer speeds after sustained read/writes.
Asmedia ASM2362 and Realtek RTL9210 just work and are excellent quality. They're not impacted by thermal throttling, random disconnects and so forth like the JMicron chipsets. From my understanding the Realtek is the better of the 2, but they'd both be sufficient.
The UGreen Enclosure is using the ASM2362 with overall good reviews. I'd shop around for others with the Asmedia and Realtek chipsets and see what you can find. I'd expect them to go on sale on Black Friday.
Anyone know why the PCIe and NVME (2280 etc) drives are cheaper than the SATA drives of the equivalent configuration? Sometimes (in this case) the difference in price in $10, other times much more. I would have thought SATA would a fair bit for cheaper than PCIe/NVME. I understand that the actual memory chips on the card is the primary price driver there's more to that in pricing. Asking as I have and older laptop and am stuck with SATA, but its fine for my needs. Thanks in advance!
I don't have enough m.2 slots mannnn
What do people do about their OS when they install a new SSD/HDD? Can you copy it over somehow or do you need a new license?