Don't make these mistakes with your NVMe SSD installation - NVMe tips and tricks
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ธ.ค. 2022
- In this video, we're going to be talking about some of the most common mistakes that people make when installing a NVMe SSD, and how to avoid them. We're also going to be going over some of the best ways to measure the performance of a NVMe SSD, and dispel some of the myths about NVMe PCIe speeds.
If you're looking to install a NVMe SSD in your computer, then this video is for you! We'll cover everything from the basics of NVMe SSDs to the best way to install them. We'll also discuss some of the key factors to consider when choosing a NVMe SSD, and how to measure their performance.
The process for installing is really easy but may vary depending on your motherboard - some have heatsinks and different screw setups. It's also worth checking your manual as you may find that not all the drives work the same way.
NVMe installation is easy in theory but it's important to keep these things in mind:
- Use the top spot where possible to ensure x4 PCIe lanes
- Remove any plastic stickers from heatsinks and shields
- Use thermal pads to disperse heat
- If you install multiple drives this may reduce PCIe lanes available for your GPU
- You may need to change settings in your BIOS
- When installing in Windows use the Disk Management/Create a partition settings to set the drive up
- Always benchmark to make sure it's running as it should be.
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At Disk Formatting section of the video, it is good to be mentioned of 10-20% of the total amount of the disk space, to be left as unlocated for long reliability and data integrity of the SSD disks
You should check the MB manual for the bifurcation table which will detail PCIE lane sharing details.
Love this! I just recently added my SSD to the wrong slot after checking in Samsung magician. I'm still new to the custom PC space, so videos like this help me out a ton! Thanks for the tips/guide!
Glad I could help!
Thanks you for these great tips. I don't have any Gen 4 stuff yet, but I'll make sure my 3 NVMe's are working properly thanks to your video!
This seems to be a very underrated channel, the content is excellent. One question I had and was confusing from the manual, is there a difference or something to be aware of when installing NVME double sided vs single. It mentions rubber grommets and seems slot dependent looking at a ASUS z790 manual. - Cheers
If it's double-sided then you'll need cooling on both sides. The rubber pads they often provide would buffer the metal on the bottom side from scratching the motherboard and preventing shorts. You won't see a double-sided NVMe unless you're using a very high capacity drive. All the 2TB and less I've seen are single-sided. You can tell by where the memory chips are. The back side will only have a sticker.
Followed your instructions on my 10 year old pc after purchasing a ssd. Thank you so much for the information as my computer is like new now and it was so easy to do using your instructions 😀 😊
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Hey! Thanks for your video. I am building a PC and I bought two same exact M2 SSD. When installing windows, how do I make sure I select the fastest one? Not sure what to do. If I install one first it will be a pain in the butt to remove the GPU to install the second one
Big support for the channel and keep on making awesome content and guides and giveaways in the future as well. Worked for me
I cannot get the M2 screw in. Or to be precise, the thicker screw that the other one goes into, the one that goes below the actual drive. Are you supposed to be able to just manually twist that in?
Hi, does Gen3 and Gen4 refer to the max supported version of the PCIe bus, or does it have correlation to the X4/X1 lane notation of the PCIe slots? If my motherboard only supports PCIe 3 - would it matter if I connected the drive to the X1, X4 or even an X16 slot?
As always a soothing and helpful guide for this nutty new technology. As some have mentioned, you should definitely be looking at your motherboard manual. I think people try to wing it too much and with m.2 you cannot do that. Many people don't know you will often lose the use of a few sata ports when using m.2 on certain slots as well. I check m.2 configuration before I even buy a motherboard so I know it will work for my need.
True
New? The tech is like 10 years old now
@@drunkhusband6257 some people are upgrading to a motherboard with NVME support for the first time. i got some used PC parts about 2 months ago and it was the first motherboard i owned with NVME support. i had no idea NVME slots would disable SATA ports on the motherboard. I had my optical drive plugged into sata port 6 and then installed my secondary NVMe SSD. then i wondered if my Bluray drive broke. nope. the NVMe being plugged in disabled SATA ports 5 and 6.
@@drunkhusband6257 Yup, my Z97 motherboard has an M.2 slot, definitely not as new as one would think.
Is it possible to boot into u.2 ssd if its inserted to an u.2 to m.2 adapter?@@TheProvokedPrawn
Thank you so much for this! You explained clearly and deffo saved me from a lot of pain, installing my new 990 2Tb. Love your style so: liked, Subbed, shared and commented!
May I ask, nay beg, that you make a vid explaining the subtleties of provisioning, over or under!?
I truly love the way you explain things and I'm sure that with your guidance, the penny will finally drop!
Thank you once again, you are a legend, Sir!
Happy to see NVMe slot between CPU and peg slot. I was the engineer inside Intel added a nvme to desktop in Skylake time keeping atx form factor.
Wouldn't putting thermal pads under the m.2 drive increase the temperature transfer to the area under the m.2? Just a little confused for my build
Thank you for this video this is the First time installing a SSD like this, Really helped
I'm setting up a new gaming rig with 3 1Tb KC3000 drives on a Z790 Tomahawk MB...this is all very helpful. Any comments on the Kingston SSD Manager software in comparison to the Samsung Magic software?
If you have bought a drive with a heatsink is it still necessary to lay it upon extra thermal padding? Installing into my new Aurora R15(2 TB 980 pro w/heatsink) and PS5(1 TB pro w/ heatsink) each. Basically is it not necessary to have thermal padding if you bought an ssd with a heatsink?
Thanks for this video. Could u answer a question for me please. I am currently building a new pc (after very long time) again. I never used m.2 (werent a thing, when i last have build one). I plan to use 2 m.2´s. A smaller one as systemdrive and a 2 TB one as gaming drive (both Samsung 980 Pro). The motherboard i want to buy is the ASUS ROG STRIX B650E-E (hopefully the i225-v doesnt screw me). Now my question: where should i place which M.2? Since, from my understanding the STRIX supports 2 equally fast m.2. slots its down to which drive will generate more heat (upper slot seems to have a much beefier headsink). So should i put the Systemdrive under the better heatsink or the Gamedrive? Also if any of my assumptions are wrong please let me know. Thanks in advance, and have a nice day.
I bought a couple of Adata XPG Gammix NVMEs for my build. They came with a separate, very thin aluminum heatsink cover. Should I put those on and then install the motherboard heatsinks on top of those? Or should I install them without their respective factory heatsink? (just using the mobo hs covers)
do you have any idea, how to boot from pcix controller, with that disk (crucial p3) when c602 (enterprise for x79) recognize the controller in bios but can't boot up from it? liked and subscribed. greetings from PL
Very useful @The Provoked Prawn. My drives are x2 Samsung 990's and x 3 Crucial Gen 4 drives all running at Gen 2x1. I have an Asus Z790 Hero Motherboard, how do I get them running at the Full speed please?
It's not always the top slot. Some boards steal PCIe 5 lanes from the GPU in the top slot (M.2_1), reducing your GPU from x16 to x8. This would be less of an issue with a PCIe 5 GPU, but the current generation of GPUs are PCIe 4, and will lose performance. The correct slot for a gen 4 drive can be M.2_2, if the board routes the CPU's x4 lanes there.
thats why you dont buy intel, ryzen doesnt have this problem because it has 28 gen 5 lanes on the 7000 series
Its a good general rule of thumb, but if you are assembling your own PC motherboard up, then you can take the time to read some labels or the owners manual to see what is the proper slot for gen 4 support. Some boards even have the "dimm .2" slots next to the ram that allow 2 nvme similar to his pcie dual nvme card.
@@Wedgeman_Riley really random and kind of irrelevant to the current topic but thoughts on the x670e-a strix mobo? Trying to find a white one that would go with a 7950x especially after seeing your comment about the 28 gen 5 lanes.
@@Wedgeman_Riley that’s convenient, I have an x570 board with a 5800x and I was worried about adding another NVME
@@Sl0th150 the x670e gaming is a good motherboard if your willing to spend alot and will work well with the 7950x because it has good power delivery and enough gen 5 lanes to support a gpu and 2 nvme ssds at gen 5 which is the most the board supports and still has enough gen 5 lanes for any expansion cards like an elgato capture card
Very Informative Video i also have the Z690 Formula and regularly use armoury crate, i can now check my WD Black SN850 drives are performing as they should be. Thank You!
Can i install the drive heatsink that comes with the motherboard on the second slot?
Im planning to add another ssd, i have a 970 pro and i want to add 990 pro as another one. Can i keep the 990 in any slot or it has to be the top slot for max performance? Also i have to copy all system and games on to the 990 from the 970 right?
Hello! Can you tell me please which slot should I insert the SECOND SSD m2 drive (Samsung 990 Pro) in the Asus z790 Dark Hero motherboard?? The first drive is already inserted into the main slot near the processor. I will be very grateful for your answer!
You can just right-click the Windows start button and go right to disk management directly in Windows 11. If I remember right, the same shortcut works in 10 as well.
I dont have a thermal sink for mine, is that ok? It's installed in the top slot. I spent a long time thinking of what slot should I use, because while the second one is apparently slower (only 2 slots in my mobo btw), it comes with a heatsink. On the other hand, it goes right below the graphics card, little room to breath under that hot thing.
Funny, I searched something very vague up on TH-cam, and I get a video with the exact NVMe I just bought! x)
Thanks installed extra ssd and I didn’t see it on pc, followed your easy steps and I am good to go. Thanks.
You're welcome!
All well and good have ing sticky thermal tape inside the lid/top plate on these modern MBs but how do you remove them to change your SSD if the it is secured to the MB by a fastener and the thermal tape is doing its thing and is securely stuck? Just a thought
Thanks! This was perfect info for me to install my new NVME SSD.
Is it possible to have a B & M keyed (2 notches) PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD in a 2280 form factor? I've only seen the one notch version as seen in your video.
This video is really good. Well done mate !
I have an older ASUS Maximus Formula mobo…was looking at getting an asus hyper riser card you have pictured in your video. If i install this riser card in bottom x 16 slot….will it slow down my single slot graphics card?
Hello provokedprawn I was wondering could you do a test of the current window 10 2h22 vs windows 11 2h22 in games to see if there is any improvement? Thx in advance if you do make a video of it.
Do you know if m.2 gen 4 is ok for a asus tuf a15 laptop or would a gen 3 be better
The P.Prawn just gave a whole bunch of crucial info on PCI NVMe that every mid-level user has to know. what makes it better is that it was delivered effectively under 10 minutes. Bravoooo
Thank you for helping me with my very first NVME selection and installation.
Glad to help!
My motherboard has only 1 heatsink for nvme but it has 2 slots. Is it okay to use the slot without heatsink?
Our 4TB gen 4 kept the Asus Prime TRX40-PRO S mobo from posting. It would throw an 06 Q-code and just hang. We updated BIOS but no-go. Only info I found was to reformat the drive first before install. Sounds like I need an NVMe portable drive now. Any recommendations?
Is the thermal pack normally "glued" to the ssd after the installation after you peal of the plastic?
(I want to install two Additional SSD to my already installed SSD on the top spot)
I bought two faster one's, thats way I want to change the one on the top spot with one faster one i bought (for running the OS usw.) so if its glued i'm not gonna do it obiously.
some new info for me thank you. I didn't know how much more armory could do
No problem!
Just picked up a b760-i, which has the second slot on the back of the board. The second m.2 (gen4) doesn’t have a heat sink, should I get one?
My cpu fan and rtx gpu is covering up my first nvme , so if I install an nvme I will not be able to use a heatsink can I use the bottom slot and still get the same speed? I will only be installing 1 nvme drive
Very useful. Thanks. I was curious what speed my SSDs were since I have a 5700g CPU. Evidently, doesn't matter. I found my Gen 3 SSD at Gen 3 speed and my Gen 4 SSD at Gen 4. I have a 4TB Gen 4 coming tomorrow to replace my Gen 3 drive and I'm happy to see I didn't waste $50. lol... No need to replace the 5700g just yet.
Very informative video! You've helped me ensure my new Crucial P3 NVMe was running optimally. Keep up the good work, Prawn!
Great to hear!
thanks. will be sure to check that speed. About to add a 2tb ssd and will check the speed for sure now.
I will say, that you should check your motherboard's manual before installing. My Asus ROG Strix B650 mobo doesn't state that one slot is better than another. My old Asrock X370 Tai Chi directed me to put the sata drive in the top slot and the NVMe drive in the second slot for full speeds.
How did you install your m.2? Die you use the rubber pad to prevent the m.2 from bending?
I have a B650e-e gaming
My top m.2 slot is 5.0 then my next down is 4.0 I have a WD SN850X 4TB so should I put in the 5.0 or 4.0 slot?
Thank you. I just installed a 2nd 4TB ssd on the motherboard, and it didn't show, but after watching your video above regarding "disk management " it came alive 😊
Glad it helped
Let me ask you this if I could... To start I have a asus rog strix x570-e(basically the same as yours) I have my C/boot drive in the top. It's running at 3.0x4. I just bought a new NVMe drive today. Can I/Should I move that first NVMe SSD to a lower port and put my new SSD in the top port? Or will that jack everything up? Like will my PC be looking at the old port like where the heck did everything go? Great video and thank you for the help.
will the ryzen 5800x3d pair well with the msi x570s edge max wifi & a 250gb samsung 970 evolution plus with a 2tb 970 evo plus?
Most informative and well prepared video about the subject yet, thank you very much
Thank you.
This was highly informative - thank you so much.
You are so welcome!
I have z590 e gaming wifi and am lost bit here i first used m.2 -2 slot it was working fine but the read for samsung 990 pro was bad only 3600 then i took out and put it in slot 1 which is the top one now not detected by bios or windows what should i do please
Hi i have a HP 2015 ish with specs say SSD M.2 and the slot on the M/B is that NVME type with small 5pin and one long for the rest. I bought a NVME Gen4x4 with same 1 small and 1 long but it sort of very tight getting it into slot with it pushed against notch not middle of notch? i see 5 pins in slot (not 6) and my H/D has 5 on one side and 4 on the other. So is this right one as Laptop wont recognize? If k, i cant see anything in Bios about H/D and also tried Ubuntu on Stick and when temp loaded , it cant see drive either. Model HP 15-ba052au
I have an AlienWare 17 R3 & I want to install 2 of these drives in the slots provided by Dell. Are these Plug & Play, meaning can I just install them & off we go? I want to install a Samsung - 980 1TB Internal Gaming SSD PCIe Gen 3 x4 NVMe & a Samsung - 980 PRO 2TB Internal Gaming SSD PCIe Gen 4 x4 NVMe. I just want to make sure they are compatible with my system.
Thanks,
Mike
Great video thoroughly enjoyed it very well detailed and understood everything you said thank you
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Hi I have NUC11PHBi7 Enthusiast with Samsung SSD 980 PRO 2TB installed at slot where Optane was (which burned down), Samsung Magician suggest "Recommended to connect to PCIe Gen 4.0 for optimal speed". BIOS setting is as suggested different from Optane one. Any suggestions how to get PCIe Gen. 4x4 on that system?
I never thought to check the m.2 speed/lanes. I have 1 firecuda 530 2tb and 2 Samsung 980pro 1tb. I remember using the magician software on my ddr4 board and when I used their benchmark it never reached the rated speed. This is probably the reason.
God there's so much to learn.
I’m building a pc with an Asus z790-a Prime and I have a 980 pro 2tb and was thinking of gettin a 990 pro 1tb as a boot drive. I also wanna get a 4TB Crucial P3 Plus for the rest of my game library. Do you recommend doing a partition on the 990 for the Os and software files? And if so, how much. Any suggestions or recommendations are appreciated.
You don't need to partition drives anymore, it doesn't do anything with SSD.
Hi i would to ask for help i just installed a 2nd nvme ssd on my pc. Which is kingston NV2 1Tb for extra storage. Ive finished setting it up but i cant use it saying its write protected? Any idea how can i fix this? Thank you.
Hi Sir, have you encountered any m.2 problem with this board? MoBo can't read my Crucial P5 m.2 SSD. Still finding answers. Thanks in advance.
Hi question. I got a sata M.2 SSD and a M.2 NVMe SSD which is supposedly an upgrade for my laptop. But when I checked my bios the NVMe SSD is not showing on the list. However, when I have my HDD instead of the M.2 SSD, the NVMe SSD shows on the list. Any idea why this is happening? I was planning on making the M.2 SATA SSD to have my OS instead of having it on an old HDD.
Curiously, the 1st M.2 slot you recommend people to install their drive to (the one closest to the CPU) is the slot one SHOULD NOT use on the ASUS STRIX z790-E board in particular, since this will limit the GPU to run at x8. I wonder if I will ever use that slot at all. Oddly, it´s the only PCI E 5.0 M.2 slot. Equipped with a beefy thermal shield. Since I haven´t built a PC over a decade, I´m intrigued by this, wondering if I am missing something important here.
Any thoughts on that?
I hated putting it into the second slot, since the first has the heat pipe!
@@josephaltman460 I hate to be the one telling you, but I THINK both the 1st AND the 2nd M.2 slots share the same CPU lanes with your GPU. If I am not mistaken, you have to install in the 3 M.2 the furthest away, Corretct me, if I am wrong, but you might be running your GPU at x8 right now. Please send us feedback.
z790 has more pci e lanes, it doesn't matter
how many lanes does a RAID 0 configuration take up?
My main worry now is finding tower with less lights than Blackpool, what is it, don't they let needs in clubs or something? If I am building and want to use all 3 nvme m.2 drives does this mean a ball ache of adding one by one? I also want yo add 4 x 32 gb DDR4 ram. Any advice please. Great video - very clear and easy to follow.
I only have one slot for NVMe. Right now it’s occupied with a shitty SSD from the pre built manufacturer (benchmarked it at 1k mgps..) and bought a Samsung 990 pro to replace it. But current shitty SSD has my OS on it. Is moving the OS from the old SSD to my upgrade an easy process?
Is it ok to use a newer pcie 4.0 on a pcie 3.0 motherboard, I don't mind the speed cap, I just wanna make sure it'll work. And thank you for the video!
Yes
thanx for the help i added an extra drive and was wonder what the heck went wrong but with your video i was able to easily figure out the system forgot to name the drive easily fixed it
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I don't think you mentioned it, one thing I'd add is that for whatever reason, the retention screws for M.2 drives are exceptionally easy to strip. After stripping two of them, I went and bought an IFixIt kit. You don't really need to go that far, but you probably want to make sure you're using a Phillips #1 bit. Often it doesn't matter w/ Phillips heads, but in this case it does.
nah. only you had to be careful of this.....
@@elm4nsuri Certainly possible! But I've never had this issue with any other screw type, and yet I've had the problem each time I've had to install an M.2 drive.
There's really no reason to overtighten any screws on a PC. Working on a car it could happen but stripping a screw on a PC is completely out of the question.
@@taylormeyer671 for me the issue wasn't overtightening - the issue was that the bit didn't fit very well. The M2 screws really want a P1 bit. Normally with other screws you can use other phillips bits, but not for the M2
It's always a best practice to use a bit that fits the screw snug. Philips was intended to prevent overtightening though. If you have precise control of your driver, torx would be better if it's an option. Over tightening is bad, slamming the tip of a driver into a circuit board is much worse.
Which partition is recommended for Samsung 4 tb 990 pro m.2 mbr or gpt ?
I am using second m.2 slot in motherboard. i want to switch to first m.2 slot. can just put to first slot? or i need to do somthing first...Plz Answer
Hi, I Could really use your help figuring out why in my ASRock Fatal1ty B350 ITX A/C wifi if I put in a 4TB m.2 SSD in the only available spot, it only allows me to format 2TB.
Already tried converting to GPT and Dynamic disk but I still run into the same problem as MBR, only 2TB used even if it sees all 4 unallocated.
I tried diff bios options too, like UEFI mode instead of Legacy and that makes it worse where the screen stays completely black after a restart.
Even with MBR mode when win10 does get installed, the system says there's something missing so it stays on a black screen with some text and doesn't advance.
Please help, out of ideas! Thanks!!
I have been wondering about heatsinks and NVME m.2 ssd drives ... Should I buy with heatsinks? and if so should I use the factory heatsink or got with aftermarket? Examples: Samsung 980pro with or without heatsink as well as the Team Group z440.
Little late but ALWAYS RESEARCH YOUR MOBO!!! I recently bought a board that comes with integrated m.2 covers but all the M.2 drives I have, have heatsinks. Removing heatsinks will void warranty, so be careful. The bare version will usually be cheaper so if you're getting an expensive mobo, which is more likely to have integrated heatsinks, you can shave like $20 off the cost of the board per m.2 since that's around how much cheaper it is to buy without the sink. The mobo sinks I have also don't have a plastic covering, they're just bare (probably because I bought a refurbished board but idk), so you can't really store them long term since open air will deteriorate the pad. I made my peace with it but if this helps I'd rather have not had to deal with it in the first place lol.
I know you might not see my comment amongst all the other comments, but you sir, are a fantastic TH-camr and creator. This was seriously a high quality and educating video. I appreciate your effort and time you spend to make this video!
Thanks. That's very nice of you
Thanks. Should com in handy as I am now building a new PC to replace the one I built 15 years ago. Data storage technology has changed a lot since then. Never heard of NVMe or M.2 until I began researching parts for the new system.
is some of this info relevant to an msi laptop also?
Hey there. Putting together a PC and I just purchased a GIGABYTE B650 AORUS ELITE motherboard. I'm not the most tech savy person, but my friend says I should purchase PCIE raid card and run my two drives in Raid as the would incresae their speed. However, I'm seeing a lot of info online that Raid is becoming obsolete. Will running my two m.2 drives in RAID on a PCIE card really make them much better? Or should I just put the two m.2 drives in the motherboard itself? If there is no significant benefit, I'd rather put the drives on the mobo. Thanks in advance if anyone can answer!
Really appreciate your vids you explain things so easily for us noobs this is key SO from me THANKS & I’m sure everyone, so helpful & Respect keep up the great work 100%👍🏼🥇✅
Glad to hear it!
If my drive already has a heatsink, should I leave on the bottom thermal pad or take it off completely?
i have the p5, and didn't know the cover with the sticky went back on. mine runs at 45c at most without it. i've been reading that it's better if they are warm, but not the controller. so, i'm not sure if i should bother putting it back on.
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thanks! ~ i'm glad i opened my drawer recently, and saw the heatsink. i got really bad speeds on crystal disk mark, so today i put it on with the thermal pad, and 1st try i got 3500 mb/s like promised. instead of 900 some. so, i guess it was being throttled, since i was very wrong about my temps above, it was really getting 65c. 😬
I have a strange plastic square-formed closure at my old m.2 ssd, where actually I just expected a small screw. the ssd is on a gigabyte motherboard, and I just wanted to exchange it with a 1TB m.2 ssd (crucial). Any hints, how to get the old ssd off there? I dont want to damage anything.
So it make x8 permanent or only when SSD NVMe going trough some tasks ?
im switching my motherboard from x570i to x570si because it doesnt read my m.2 nvme drive anymore, do i have to fresh install windows?
Hi,
please help me :/
I have 2 ssd installed with windows and everything,
but my BIOs shows them as raid, not nvme.
and when I login to windows, it shows all the information about both ssds, but transfer mode in empty :/
I installed one on m2_1 and the other on m2_2 on strix z790-f
Do you know what is wrong :(
Just read the manual it will tell you which pci slot combo would work to get the maximum speed. It is actually better to read about it before buying the mobo ☺️.
Yup, and if you need to change the pciex16 to x8 so you can use the other slot. Had to figure this out on my server the other day. Also chipsets will usually tell you which have more m.2 slots and support full speeds.
please help, im on asrock a520m and tried to put nvme on it. it doesn't show up in disk management neither in bios.. I've tried to unplug my sata drives still doesn't show up. but the nvme led light is turned on
so if i was to use the hyper m.2 card with a motherboard that doesn't support bifurcation, i would only get 8x on my gpu on the top slot?
What do you think is faster for the games data installation ? An 2TB M.2 drive encrypted with Bitlocker that is connected directly to the CPU with its x4 lane (as C: main drive). Or the games data on a second 2TB M.2 drive that is not bitlocker encrypted and not connected directly to the CPU with the lane, but via x4 to the chipset (and another 0,5-1 TB for C: drive) ?
I bought new pc setup and after 1 month my 500gb crucial p3 nvme m.2 stopped working. I was playing valorant suddenly black screen appears then pc re-start and shows bios page. I saw in bios > storage > pci ssd - ( blank ) the size is not showing its blank there. What is the reason??
I also tried in another port didn't worked also the nvme got super hot in 30 seconds like i am using it from hours.
I forget if you said this but if the ssd comes with a heatsink and my mb does as well. Would the mb have a better heatsink or the ssd for better tempts?
Ssd is 990 pro 4tb , motherboard is asus rog dark hero
I'd use the SSDs one
i love nvme info videos, great video
Glad you enjoyed!
Thank you for the video I felt like I was listening to a radio DJ very clear and nice voice
Face for radio, voice for TH-cam. :)
You sound like the male counterpart to the female narrator in Baldur's Gate 3.
How come some of the M.2 slots have heat pads and other slots don't on the same motherboard? Does this impact performance?
for the most part it doesn't make a difference. And if you look all the m.2 slots have cooling. for this board.
Most board manufacturers put cooling plates like (MSI M.2 Shield Frozr) on the higher speed interfaces (PCIe 4.0) cause they run faster than PCIe 3 which means more heat generated, more expensive boards have cooling solutions on all or most NVMe slots cause you're paying more.
An high speed nvme SSD can throttle down in speed when a certain temperature target is reached, usually with long sustained data transfers. A thermal pad especially on the controller chip helps to dump the heat to a heatsink allowing it to maintain higher/full speed.
Thanks for the video. excellent job. Very informative and well presented.
Glad it was helpful!
Nice casing with funs :-) what is it. Please let us know the configuration of the beast with 10 funs in the case 🙂
Can you review the Lian Li 216 case?