what's up guys welcome back to the
ultimate tech hub
so guys let me ask you a question
what do you think is the most important
and effective upgrade you can make to
your old desktop computer
leave your opinions in the comments
below i'll wait a second better yet hit
pause type out your answer then hit play
all right in today's video we're going
to do two things first we're going to
discuss that important upgrade and then
we'll show how to install it step by
step so once again what is the most
important upgrade you can make to your
old desktop pc
how about a new cpu
nah
how about a new motherboard
nope
i got it how about a new power supply
i don't think so
what about some new ram
gotta say no
i got it what about a new gpu
not unless you got a box full of cash
and that leaves us with the only upgrade
you can make to your old desktop pc as
effective and will make an immediate
performance difference especially when
it comes to faster storage and boot
times did you guess correctly
you probably did i have the smartest
viewers on youtube and the answer is an
nvme ssd and for all the doubters let me
explain but first what is an nvme ssd
nvme stands for non-volatile memory
express
non-volatile means that the storage
isn't erased when the computer reboots
and express refers to the fact that data
travels over the pci express interface
on your pc's motherboard
so why is an nvme ssd the best choice to
upgrade an old pc
well nvme drives are much faster than
say drives or traditional hard drives
resulting in faster boot times their
current pci 3.0 standard has a max speed
of 985 megabytes per second on each lane
nvme drives utilize four pci lanes which
theoretically gives a max speed of 3940
megabytes per second while the fastest
sata ssds top at a 560 megabytes per
second making nvme sds the best choice
for faster boot times and read and write
speeds and there is a pcie 4.0 standard
but that's for a different video and
depending on which size you get you'll
increase your storage capacity and more
storage is more better and that's why an
nvme ssd is the best choice to upgrade
your old pc nvme drives come in a couple
of different form factors an m.2 form
factor and a pcie 3 form factor and
today we will show you how to install
the m.2 form factor we're also going to
migrate our os and all our data from our
current sata ssd which is a samsung 2
terabyte 870 cuvo and just a heads up
our sabretooth x79 motherboard does not
have an m.2 slot so we're going to put
an adapter in it to make this all work
and we're going to install the sk hynex
gold
ssd it's also two terabytes and the only
downside to nvme ssds is the price
especially over one terabyte and this
puppy is two terabytes and is priced at
244 dollars on amazon and of course
there'll be a link in description below
so you can buy it so without further ado
let's get started
all right so what we have here i just
put together
the adapter and the
nvme will go in here
and
oh also heat sink
so
this is like a foam sticky tape put on
top of the
nvme we'll put this on top attaches it
does suggest some rubber bands
to wrap around this i'll look to see if
i have rubber bands so i'm going to go
ahead and pull out
the nvme and show you guys what that
looks like here
here we go
this is the sk hymix
p31
2 terabyte
nvme
ssd
yeah very careful
and there we go
you know what we'll do is we'll
show you how this works
insert it in here like so and then we'll
use a screw to secure it
before we do that though i'm going to
put the heatsink on here
all right the
pad is already on here i just went ahead
and attached that basically just pull
this film off and it's got sticky on
there
sticky adhesive and now let's place this
on top put this down
and place this on top yeah
okay
all right the nvme is inserted and now
we have to actually just mount this down
with a screw
it's much easier to take this off the
bracket first then secure it
i found that out
there we go
secure
heatseq is on looks good
should be good there attach this back to
the bracket here and we're good to go
so i did attach the two rubber bands off
camera this keeps the heat sink from
detaching from the nvme and one more
thing make sure your pc is turned off
completely before installing the nvme
and i recommend using anti-static gloves
and gently push it into the slot and
that's it
and yes of course i know my pc is very
dirty
way too much dust
i'll make sure to give it a good
cleaning
after i'm done with this install
okay now we're going to power on the
computer
log in
and then go to disk management
let's get the ssd set up
all right guys after we installed
our nvme we need to actually initialize
it
and we're gonna initialize it in
gpt
okay
so we'll do that
hit okay
now we're online
unallocated we're good here
so you want to do now right click anyone
new simple volume
and then we're going to do
that and then
we will yes
and then finish
and there we go
this is our nvme it's online
and now here's the fun part
we're going to do a performance test
on both ssds
the new one and the old one
and then we'll compare them we're
running a ssd benchmark
and i downloaded the english version
but this appears to be german i think
no worries i'll go ahead and add the
english captions
and you can see the read and write
speeds are off the chart
and the bottom scores are really high
let's go ahead and benchmark the samsung
sata ssd
and you can already see a big difference
in read and write speeds
they're a fraction of the nvme speeds
in the final score for the samsung 870
cubot is quite a bit lower than the nvme
and to be honest it's not even close
so after doing a performance test on
both ssds the nvme ssd outperformed the
sata ssd by huge margins as far as the
review goes for the sk honest gold p31
we highly recommend it the only downside
is the price at 244 dollars but with two
terabytes of storage you're not gonna
run out anytime soon and of course
there'll be a link in description below
to where you can buy it so like i stated
at the beginning of the video we wanted
to make this nvme a bootable storage
device the plan was to install windows
on the new ssd or clone the old one to
the new one and by the way a fresh os
install is always recommended but
cloning is an option and so to make this
happen with our current motherboard the
sabretooth x79 we need to flash the bios
with a cat file and this cap file will
allow the bios and our motherboard to
see this as a bootable drive but at this
point we had an issue our bios did not
see this as a bootable drive and rest
assured we tried two different cat files
but to no avail our bios would just not
see this as a bootable drive and i even
tried forcing the bios to boot this ssd
by removing the old ssd and that didn't
work and after further research we came
across a workaround for the bios updates
and here's a post i found showing these
steps however at this point we opted not
to proceed because of the risky nature
of flashing your bios too many times
especially with an older motherboard
like ours the sabretooth x79
i didn't want to risk it and sometimes
you gotta weigh out the risk versus the
reward we chose not to risk it and
ultimately we decide to use this nvme as
two terabytes of additional storage but
there is some good news we're going to
build a new pc in a couple of months and
this will be our bootable drive for that
pc well guys i hope you learned a lot
about nvme sds so you can make the right
decision for your pc needs and like i
said before an nvme ssd is the clear
choice to upgrade an old pc and we also
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