HDD vs SSD - is upgrading your hard drive ACTUALLY worth it?
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10 ай бұрынIf your desktop or laptop is slow, it very well could be because you still have a mechanical drive in your computer versus the more modern SATA SSD all-digital drive.
In this video, I show you real-world examples of identical mechanical drives, SSD drives and m.2 NVMe drives, with boot speed tests and app-opening tests so you can see for yourself exactly what kind of difference you can expect from upgrading from a mechanical drive.
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@CensoredByYouTube. 10 ай бұрын
Just a point of caution for anyone interested in going the M.2 route: M.2 is a _form factor,_ and supports two different flavors - SATA and NVMe. Though they look virtually identical, these have different connector configurations and are NOT interchangeable, so you'll need to verify which is available on your motherboard. Also, a SATA-based M.2 will enjoy little if any performance benefit over a conventional SSD as they are both bus-limited to SATA speeds, whereas NVMe (which sits on the PCIe bus) will see a five to ten-fold throughput improvement over SATA, depending on which PCI version the motherboard supports.
@FlyboyHelosim 10 ай бұрын
This.
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
👍
@ernestgalvan9037 10 ай бұрын
MVMe & SATA can be attached to the same connector, IF the connector and interface chip are properly sorted. I have a Sabrent external M.2 enclosure, which accepts BOTH MVMe (M-key) AND SATA (B/M-key). It’s a modern USB3-rated, with USB-C connector. Best $25 I’ve spent on drive adapter, solves a big problem. And it has a hinged cover, rather than the ubiquitous slider cover. Nice.
@breakfast7595 10 ай бұрын
It is also important to take into account how many PCIe lanes (not slots, lanes) your computer has as well as your generation of PCIe, and whether your PCIe is going directly to the CPU or using the chipset. For many people this isn't a concern. But if you are planning on trying to use a NVMe drive with 2 GPUs, or if you plan on multiple NVMe drives, you'll need to take this into account.
@rdspam 10 ай бұрын
Beat me to it. “NVMe”, not “M.2”. An M.2 SATA SSD drive is no faster than a traditional SATA SSD. “Digital drive” is also odd terminology. A mechanical hard drive stores 1’s and 0’s, just like all others.
@Kacper42PL 7 ай бұрын
Gotta love it when the video isn't filled with unnecessary talk nor editing, just straight and simply into the point and clear examples. Great vid!
@AskYourComputerGuy 7 ай бұрын
Thanks! Video editing is a skill I'm trying to get better at. I appreciate the support 👍
@okkrom 10 ай бұрын
And for old laptops, as an added bonus, your computer will be lighter, cooler and the battery life will get a (tiny) boost.
@milospavlovic7520 10 ай бұрын
Exta bonus: your laptop is now less sensitive to vibrations and therefore safer to use in a bus or car
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
@milospavlovic7520 also an excellent point! 👍
@eltorocal 8 ай бұрын
Much more than a tiny boost.
@francoisleveille409 7 ай бұрын
@@milospavlovic7520 Yup! The solid state advantage. No spinning so no parts wear down - although SSDs do have a life span limit imposed by the maximum possible number of writes.
@milospavlovic7520 7 ай бұрын
@@francoisleveille409 Yeah, but unless you are one of a few professions that use a lot of read/write cycles, like video editing for example, you will not reach even near to the full lifespan of your ssd. And if you are, you can just plan ahead that you need to occasionally replace it ahead of time, and to use the high-endurance ssd-s
@saif080 9 ай бұрын
Once you go SSD, you can't go back. I bought my first 500GB SSD in 2016 for €165 and have replaced all hard drives to SSD by now. I have got a 4TB SSD for €135 this month as a game drive. The boot up, app opening and game load times are unbelievably faster with SSDs. It is a much enjoyable experience of using your PC.
@AskYourComputerGuy 9 ай бұрын
Agreed!
@GatsuKS Ай бұрын
Not only loading but framerate stability. Games work considerably more fluidly with far less stutters and frame drops.
@ChristopherNealBUSHIDO49ERS 10 ай бұрын
As always this is great work, sir! Thank you!
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
Thank you so much! 👍💪
@lifeisagift.cherisheverymoment 10 ай бұрын
For my money, SSDs are definitely worth the upgrade.
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
100% yes! That's what I hoped to demonstrate for anyone who perhaps didn't even know what an SSID drive was 👍
@lifeisagift.cherisheverymoment 10 ай бұрын
@@AskYourComputerGuy I upgraded from HDDs to SSDs three years ago, and at the time never thought to time the difference, but I do recall it was a substantial improvement. I just purchased a new computer with an M.2 and I installed an additional SSD. I am somewhat disappointed with the boot time, but that's a function of the BIOS, not the M.2. I still experience significant improvement in execution speed once the POST is finished. Overall I am very happy with my computer purchase.
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
@lifeisagift.cherisheverymoment awesome!
@bhuntin08 10 ай бұрын
@AskYourComputerGuy any update to share on that medicate video you promised when you released that Ventoy video?
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
@bhuntin08 it's on the drawing board. Just got married 2 days ago and moving in 5 days. Got a backlog of videos planned 👍
@machdaddy6451 10 ай бұрын
My customers are ALWAYS impressed when I upgrade them from a HDD to an SSD.
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
Hard not to be after the first boot to am SSD. Love watching their faces 😂
@machdaddy6451 10 ай бұрын
YES. It's a simple upgrade that never fails to impress. I did have a Dell desktop once that had an M.2 slot but shipped with a HDD? That was like finding a unicorn.
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
@machdaddy6451 THAT is crazy! 😂
@markw.4679 10 ай бұрын
Glad I watched until the end! I was going to ask for a clone video. 🙂 Looks like you already have that covered! I'm looking forward to it 👍‼️
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
Next video is a step by step "how to clone" a drive 👍👍👍
@richneil5819 10 ай бұрын
Thanks Scott, clear and concise explanation. I recently converted an older Dell XPS 8500 to an SSD and a fresh Windows 10 install. The improvement in boot and app launch times is remarkable. I remember when the experts said increasing RAM was the best way to increase performance. While adding RAM does help, I never saw performance increases as significant as swapping the mechanical drive for an SSD.
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
Upgrading RAM definitely helps, but going from mechanical to SSD is like breathing life into a sluggish machine 👍
@miptzi 10 ай бұрын
No upgrade jump is greater than a ssd in old machines. It's like a rebirth.
@eltorocal 8 ай бұрын
Upgrades in RAM are only seen after the OS has finished loading.
@thomasmaughan4798 7 ай бұрын
Windows 10 is poorly written and seems to assume SSD. It starts many threads simultaneously seeking disk; 60 or so threads doing a virus scan, another 60 threads indexing the hard disk, another set of threads synchronizing OneDrive. It clobbers a spin disk but SSD's do not have head seek latency or rotational latency.
@Max_Flashheart 10 ай бұрын
SSD drive swaps for Laptops works especially well.
@okohlawrence2466 8 ай бұрын
Very helpful. Thanks for the education
@AskYourComputerGuy 8 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@Nufsed007 10 ай бұрын
Thanks Scott, picked up that docking station on Amazon in the UK for £45, fantastic piece of kit.
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
Good choice!
@bobg1685 9 ай бұрын
Nicely done. Thanks.
@AskYourComputerGuy 9 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching! 💪👍
@leovanorden4243 6 ай бұрын
Thank you for the education! I have Acronis installed on my desktop. Can you comment on the use of Acronis vs Macrium Reflect for the purpose of cloning an HHD to an SSD? Which one is better to use? Thank you.
@AskYourComputerGuy 6 ай бұрын
Both are great. Macrium is a little more user friendly IMO but both are quality programs 👍
@RUAGoodNurse 8 ай бұрын
I am having so much fun learning from you. I have a question about the sabrent USB product that you show on this video. I have a relatively new computer that only came with 128 SSD drive. I have quickly run out of space. I did buy a crucial 1T external SSD and I am trying to learn how to use that to make my microsoft office save files to that external drive. have not fully figured that out yet. I have thought about upgrading the internal ssd drive but I am not sure how to get the ACER factory settings file to work on a new internal ssd if I replace it since I won't have access to the partition that has that image. I was thinking then of buying this sabrent USB product that you talk about: would it be really easy to take the ssd drive out of my computer and use this Sabrent device to "clone" my current SSD drive onto a new larger one? Thanks for ll your great videos. ONe last thing: do you have a video that shows how to use an external SSD drive to have Microsoft Office Save files to instead of my small C drive? I don't want to have to copy and move them over all the time.
@AskYourComputerGuy 8 ай бұрын
Start here, this will help with your first issue: How to guarantee ZERO data loss if Windows crashes kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eqmBm5qlzdG9pn0.html
@RONBONIX 9 ай бұрын
WOW!! Amazing... Thank you! :)
@erojohn2 10 ай бұрын
Are the SDD model specific for HP laptops or one size fits all? Also do the drives have to be formatted for FAT or does the cloning processes do that automatically? I don’t use the laptop that often. Things seem to go quicker on the iPhone. Maybe I would use it more if it was quicker with this upgrade to SSD. I enjoy your videos immensely. Thank you.
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
A 2.5" mechanical laptop drive is the same size physically as a 2.5" SSD drive, so it's an exact swap, connectors and all. Only exception is you have a laptop with IDE connection, but those haven't been made in 20 years. You don't need to format, the cloning process does that. I do when I clone because, as shown in the video, i want to visually see the target drive labeled before I start. But you can just select the unallocated drive and clone. It does the same. A lot of people are OCD like me, so I add that extra step for them 👍
@milospavlovic7520 3 ай бұрын
@@AskYourComputerGuy I have seen some weird stuff from early ssd days, I think on hp professional laptops from circa 2014. I don't think it was msata or something else uncommon but standard, I think it was proprietary. However I haven't seen anything like that on anything newer, the weirdest thing being occasional msata or shorter m.2
@rudrabarathan2737 2 ай бұрын
Brilliant information. thanks
@NickDV007 10 ай бұрын
Enjoyed the video Scott - every day's a school day for me where computers are concerned! 😉Thanks for sharing.
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@BigD63 8 ай бұрын
Great info. Thanks.
@AskYourComputerGuy 8 ай бұрын
You're welcome! 👍
@user-qw4oe7eb3y 8 ай бұрын
Another practical video, thanks. The "Sabrent HDD/SSD/NVMe m.2 dock and offline cloner" is available from Amazon down here in Sydney, Australia, for about the same price as you gave (post free as I have a Prime account). I'm worried about longevity of SSDs but this unit will help me to make regular clones of my SSD hard-drives as backups. 73, Ian
@AskYourComputerGuy 8 ай бұрын
Nice! And highly recommended. Jury's still out about SSD longevity, but no argument at all about speed difference. Use SSD for your operating system and store your data on HDD and you should never have an issue 👍
@Jamesrdc 8 ай бұрын
Great sound control. What mic do you use?
@AskYourComputerGuy 8 ай бұрын
Believe it or not...this one :) amzn.to/46TqbP0
@rhari9496 5 ай бұрын
I would like to get an external drive that can store personal files long time and as well as a few files or games that can be run on the go. Is SSD a good option? Also, is pendrive a good option for a long time backup for small sized files?
@brentpolk8331 8 ай бұрын
I've been a PC enthusiast for many+MANY years and now I have 4 systems booting from M.2, using SSD's for Abobe & Ai upscaling transfer drives and then 8 HDD for long term storage. It's a great time to be a PC enthusiast!
@AskYourComputerGuy 8 ай бұрын
Heck yeah! 👍
@steveragsdale2358 7 ай бұрын
Thanks for the great content. One question, does the Sabrent dock do EIDE as well as SATA?
@AskYourComputerGuy 7 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, no. IDE is such an "old" format, it's not even addressed anymore. Let me find you am IDE reader (like the one I upgraded from) 👍
@AskYourComputerGuy 7 ай бұрын
This *should* work for IDE to SATA: amzn.to/3vdOQA8
@steveragsdale2358 7 ай бұрын
Thanks for the information. I have a external EIDE hard drive bay, was just wondering if this was a all in one solution. Hope you have a nice holiday season. @@AskYourComputerGuy
@bobstuckrath1805 10 ай бұрын
Very true. I installed my operating system onto an SSD. Best upgrade ever. I highly recommend it.
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
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@mikegrok 10 ай бұрын
I have been experimenting with stable diffusion on my desktop using my archival drive (spinning rust) it was taking 6 minutes to load the model then 1 minute to process it. I upgraded to an Intel d7-p5600($369) and it takes 2 seconds to load the files now.
@ghaithal-khrisha9522 4 ай бұрын
Amazing video Thank you so much, I have a small question My laptop Dell 7th generation core i5 64 bit which ssd brand do advise me to purchase?
@AskYourComputerGuy 4 ай бұрын
Samsung is the industry leader. I've had a few that failed out of the blue for no reason. I'd recommend going with the highest reviews down until you get into your price range and the pull the trigger. Corsair, PNY, Western Digital, also great brands 👍
@ghaithal-khrisha9522 4 ай бұрын
@@AskYourComputerGuy got it 👍🏻 thanks again 🙏🏼
@enadio5164 10 ай бұрын
Amazing video. I've changed hundreds of hard drives to solid states for years for my friends and family. May I suggest that you can buy an hdd enclosure in order for your old hdd to be an external drive. (specially for laptop users who have no other sata\m2 slot)
@bellshooter 10 ай бұрын
Plus one here, I use a usb to hdd cable shucked from an 'ineo' hdd enclosure. Or for m.2 a 'Milipow' usb dock.
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
Thanks for the tip!
@thomasmaughan4798 7 ай бұрын
It isn't exactly an "upgrade" more of a change. All SSD's have a WRITE LIMIT and generally ought not to be used where frequent writes and re-writes take place. Also, writing to an SSD is a rather complext process that requires to read an entire "page", update whatever cell needs updating, erase the page, and then write it. You cannot write 0's you can only erase the entire page and then write 1's where you don't want zeroes. (or vice versa depending on the default state of a page once erased). SSD can be very slow writing large numbers of small files, slower than spin disks. Nothing is faster at RANDOM reads particularly of large numbers of small files. SSD's are not good choice for ARCHIVE since the data retention is not infinite. The electric charge on tiny capacitors eventually bleeds out. It takes some years of course.
@mbm265 3 ай бұрын
Thanks a lot!!
@SuperLaplander 10 ай бұрын
Thank you sir!
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
You are welcome!
@HauntedBranch 4 ай бұрын
Hey would you Defragment a HDD drive before Cloning to a SSD drive?
@michaelturk9625 10 ай бұрын
What app did you use to monitor your boot times please?
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
It's called Boot Racer. You can get it here: greatis.com/bootracer/index.html
@MrMockingbird1313 10 ай бұрын
Excellent video. Does an SSD drive consume more or less power than a mechanical drive? I am worrid out over taxing my power supply.
@ernestgalvan9037 10 ай бұрын
SSD always have a lower power consumption. No electric motor to spin the platter, no electric coils moving disk heads back and forth…
@richardsmith7783 9 ай бұрын
Hello what do you think might be going on? why is my wirless keypad keeps losing its driver?, This only happen when its coanected to a android TV box. ( MXQ pro 10 ) I plus the i put the little pick for the wirless in to my laptop and download the drivers it will work for 30 min or so .... Is there anyway to fix this???
@AskYourComputerGuy 9 ай бұрын
Usually I would point to a possible hardware failure. Depends on how long it's been behaving that way. Also, can't speak to why it only happens plugging into Android (not my specialty). I would try an alternate wireless keyboard and if you continue to have issues, it could be a Windows issue instead 🤷♂️
@H2VPROEternal 10 ай бұрын
Can you make a video on types of SSDs like SLC, MLC, TLC and QLC thanks and each of the benefits
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
That might make for an interesting video. I'll put it on the drawing board 👍
@ezrabagus535 10 ай бұрын
Hello computer guy, i know my quiestion might be out of context but my audio input either from jack (zsn pro x) or Bluetooth (baseus) wouldn't working properly, i have rog strix 15 and windows 11, what should i do. Thanks in advance :)
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
Can you test that same device in another machine and it works? If so, could be drivers on your ROG
@ezrabagus535 10 ай бұрын
@@AskYourComputerGuy yes already to it! the mic works now but the flicker wont go away, any ideas what's the particular driver should i update? i didn't think it was the audio driver, i could be wrong🤔
@mickfreeley6054 10 ай бұрын
Get a 1TB or larger SSD as right now this is the crossover point for GB/$ for HDD vs SSD. As Scott said, M.2 NVMe vs 2.5" SATA depends on your computer options.
@michaelkeudel8770 10 ай бұрын
Not really when you can get 2TB NVME's for roughly $70 right now, I've even seen 4TB models around $140, spinning rust can rest in peace these days unless you want even larger drives just for storage.
@Defender78 6 ай бұрын
Ive been mounting 120 GB SSDs for my OS, andi'm using my existing HDDs (250GB to 1 TB HDD) where i place my songs and movies and pics, since im more concerned with having my PC turn on and off faster, i can wait 4 seconds for Kiss "Shout it Out Loud" kick on from the HDD. I don't game, so they program start times arent crucial, only the on-off modes. I do have older laptops from the DDR2 era, like Toshiba Satellite LTs which i use to tinker with and go on vacation with aka expendable... and even with SSDs they are a joy to run, even if i have to run Linux Mint or Linux Kubuntu to run the Web faster on.
@willmunda403 10 ай бұрын
Excellent!
@lizzieandbob1 6 ай бұрын
Thank you for these videos. Our computer is in the shop right now. The computer is old (2010). We were told mother board and hard drive are the problem. We are upgrading to a used system. Question they only had a 500 mg Solid state hard drive on hand. They are also moving a second hard drive I had installed recently into the old computer, which is 2tb. Can I clone the 500mg hard drive with another 2tb hard drive without causing it to make partitions?
@AskYourComputerGuy 6 ай бұрын
When you clone a drive, the new drive will be overwritten with all the data and partitions from the source drive
@BradyPatterson 10 ай бұрын
My laptop has an M.2 and I use that but also a HDD for the data. Would swapping the HDD make a difference?
@FlyboyHelosim 10 ай бұрын
I'd keep the HDD if you're using it for data, as HDDs are still the better option for longer-term data storage.
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
Only when accessing the files on that drive. Won't change boot speed or app speed unless those apps were installed to that drive
@therealist3228 9 ай бұрын
Having a heck of a time downloading that cloning software. Any others you would recommend?
@AskYourComputerGuy 9 ай бұрын
Clonezilla is open source. Acronis True Image ($), AOEMI Backupper ($), Norton Ghost ($)
@therealist3228 9 ай бұрын
Thank you
@AskYourComputerGuy 9 ай бұрын
👍
@Klojum 8 ай бұрын
I noticed the benefits of SSDs right away when they first came out some 10 years ago. I started with the first OCZ Vertex SSD (I bought two, one failed after 4 months and the other STILL works today!), I have not bought any HDDs for booting a PC or laptop since. Of course, big storage HDDs capable of 8TB and more are a different matter.
@oldgamer1330 8 ай бұрын
I personally would never use any bigger than 1TB, if you loose an 8 TB you will loose a lot of stuff. I would rather 8, 1TB and a much less chance of loosing all 8 drives and 8, 1TB is a less to buy than an 8TB.
@Mattsta432 6 ай бұрын
There is one thing you didn't clarify in the video, were you using fast boot up which is on by default I think or was it disabled. I have a sata ssd with windows 10 on it. With fast boot up enabled, from startup to desktop screen I timed it at around 25 seconds. With a normal boot up it takes around 5 and a half minutes to get to desktop screen.
@AskYourComputerGuy 6 ай бұрын
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@ravenkf142 10 ай бұрын
Hi great video, i was wondering i bought a used ThinkPad which has a intell ssd, however i would like to change it to a sk hynix p31 , would i just take the old drive out put knew one in then boot from usb? i reset my pc using don't save anything and restore from local, but it just reloaded win 11 Pro? the thing is i don't want to clone the old one. thanks in advance 😊
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
That is correct 👍
@ravenkf142 10 ай бұрын
@@AskYourComputerGuy thanks for your help I'm quite knew at doing this, so don't bother with reset just pull old one out and use my usb by changing the order in bios and wipe tpm ? thanks
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
@ravenkf142 if you're doing a clean install, absolutely. You *might* run into an issue where the install doesn't see the new drive. I would recommend finding the SATA/RAID controller drivers off the new drive manufacturer website and copy those to your flash drive, so you can point to them, load the drivers and then you'll be good to proceed once the install "sees" the drive
@ravenkf142 10 ай бұрын
@@AskYourComputerGuy thank you for help much appreciated, I suppose after that windows will set the drive up I will have to see, thanks again 🙂
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
@ravenkf142 my pleasure! Good luck, my friend 👍
@_J.F_ 5 ай бұрын
After watching this video I went ahead and bought additional 8GB RAM (my Dell desktop will run max 16GB) and a Kingston KC600 drive with an upgrade kit included. It cost me round about $100 and using Acronis, which I had on my desktop already, and following your video on how to clone a hard drive, the total upgrade was super simple and only took a few hours of which my actual work time was probably around 20 minutes. The old desktop is now running like a rocket so I couldn't be more happy with going ahead and doing this very affordable and easy upgrade. I have actually ordered an additional Kingston KC600 drive now that I know how easy it is, so I can do e.g. monthly backups using the cloning method. Thanks for a great series of videos on the subject I was looking for 👍
@AskYourComputerGuy 5 ай бұрын
Fantastic! That's so great to hear 💪👍❤️
@kewalker2509 7 ай бұрын
How do I determine best ssd drive for my Dell laptops?
@AskYourComputerGuy 6 ай бұрын
SSD speed (they're not all the same), reviews and price 👍
@martincruiz7976 9 ай бұрын
Just a question for clarification here. When you use the Sabrent USB docking station one still needs to download the Macrium Reflect software to the hard disk drive in order to clone that drive to the SSD? When you said it was a stand alone cloner I thought maybe no software program was needed. I'm a newbie to this process.
@AskYourComputerGuy 9 ай бұрын
Incorrect. The Sabrent cloner can work offline as well, no software needed. Macrium is my choice for "in use" cloning but if you have an SSD you want to clone to m.2, you can do it all disconnected from any computer 👍
@gins8781 4 ай бұрын
If you are upgrading to SSD which has more GB storage than the HDD you are cloning, does the cloning device automatically expand the SSD’S partition to its full capacity? Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I know very, very little about computers. I have merely seen this topic addressed in another video. Can’t recall who the content creator was or the exact context.
@AskYourComputerGuy 4 ай бұрын
@gins8781 by default it will duplicate partitions. You can go to Windows disc management and extend your OS partition in about 5 seconds, no problem
@jp51552 26 күн бұрын
Hello. I've got two questions: 1 - Is there a maximum write count for an SSD/M.2 drive? 2 - How long will the data be maintained if it is stored for example in it's original packaging for months or years?
@JackMcSomeone 9 ай бұрын
I've had an M.2 NVMe SSD as my main boot drive in my PC for the past 3 years. I also have a 4TB HDD for media and games. I'm thinking of getting a SATA SSD the same size as my current HDD to use for gaming while keeping the HDD for music, pictures and videos. Would the SATA SSD improve my gaming experience?
@AskYourComputerGuy 9 ай бұрын
Versus an HDD? 100% yes!
@davinp 10 ай бұрын
On Windows 11, the Windows Subsystem for Android requires an SSD and so does Google Play Games Beta for PC
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
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@FlyboyHelosim 10 ай бұрын
Just another reason to avoid Windows 11 then.
@johngallagher912 10 ай бұрын
Just bought a new HP Win11 desktop and discovered that HP installed the OS on the 1T hard drive instead of the 1T NVMe. I plan to clone to the NVMe, but how do I change the UEFI setup? The boot order doesn't list the hard drive in the boot menu. It lists the dvd drive and USB but neither the HDD or the NVMe drives in the boot order list.
@AskYourComputerGuy 9 ай бұрын
You might have to boot to legacy MBR mode to see them 🤷♂️
@johngallagher912 8 ай бұрын
@@AskYourComputerGuy My worry is that if I clone windows 11 to the NVMe drive, Microsoft will no longer honor the win 11 license since it will then be on a different drive.
@AskYourComputerGuy 8 ай бұрын
@johngallagher912 hard drives are not considered by Microsoft to be "significant" upgrades. The license will stay, I assure you 💪
@seekwithlove 7 ай бұрын
My mechanic drive died or corrupted and cannot be booted or read, will cloning retrieve my data?
@AskYourComputerGuy 6 ай бұрын
Possible. Once a drive is physically damaged, cloning is nearly impossible. But you can try, can't hurt
@samuraiwarriorsunite 10 ай бұрын
I use Macrium Reflect and a USB 3.0 to SATA adapter cable that has a transfer speed of 5Gbps. It's very convenient because you can clone an HDD to an SSD for greater speed or clone a backup SSD of your operating system just in case.
@tritosac 3 ай бұрын
I have got a 2014 Toshiba laptop with 1TB HDD. I've taken very good care of it but it's making funny noises & I am finally looking to buy a new laptop. My dilemma is I am trying to decide between an HP with 1TB o SSD or another HP which has a 256 GB SSD with a backup 1TB HDD. The one with both SSD and HDD is actually $210 more expensive. Looking at how much of the 1TB I have used on my current laptop it's only 71 GB. My only concern with the SSD is I read there is a limited number of rewrites- I don't understand what that means-vs the HDD which is more durable. Please help educate me on what will be best for me. By the way I am not a gamer. I just use my laptop for writing, office-excel, pdf-basically productivity and using streaming apps like KZfaq. Any advice is appreciated.
@AskYourComputerGuy 3 ай бұрын
Great question! Most SSD drives have around 5000 full-write cycles. Meaning you'd have to completely write the entire contents of the drive 5000 times before you're in any danger of replacing. Spend the extra money, put your OS and programs on the SSD for speed, your important data on the 1TB drive (with some kind of backup) and you'll be fine.
@tritosac 3 ай бұрын
@@AskYourComputerGuy Appreciate the response. Just so I understand your answer you think it's a good idea to choose the laptop that has both the SSD with the 1TB HDD backup? Thank again. Your videos are great and you have a new subscriber!
@AskYourComputerGuy 3 ай бұрын
@tritosac that's what I would do, simply for speed AND data archive. If the extra $$$ isn't a good option, you can always split your C drive into 2 partitions (in case you have to reinstall Windows without touching your personal data). I made a video on how to do that. But, if you go with the one HDD option, your Windows won't be as fast. Personal preference, but I got you either way. And thanks for the support 👍
@donnamaxwell5239 6 ай бұрын
If I do a 500 GB to a 1TB will cloning it . Will it only use the 500GB an I will lost the other storage?
@AskYourComputerGuy 6 ай бұрын
You can expand or shrink the target as needed
@erojohn2 10 ай бұрын
I installed a crucial Ssd 1 tv to my 7 yr old hp laptop, to replace the mechanical drive. V Ct lune was accomplished on second attempt. Install went smoothly. On initial startup saying repairing disk errors might take over an hour. Thinking something is definitely haywire. Any ideas?
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
Disk errors can definitely be hardware/failing drive, but could also be file structure corruption. Run Chkdsk /r from command prompt and let it complete
@erojohn2 10 ай бұрын
It won’t boot. Can I get to command prompt from safe mode via f8
@erojohn2 10 ай бұрын
Won’t boot even in safe mode
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
What operating system are you running? F8 won't work on W10/W11
@erojohn2 10 ай бұрын
Windows 10
@AyupStuggy 9 ай бұрын
I have only 2.5gb left on my existing c:drive SSR. It's an MSI latop with windows 10 home software (manufacturers EOM software). Great laptop but it's running out of space. Do you think I would be ok increasing it to a bigger SSD? or am I likely to have issues with windows being configured and locked to the old harddrive/hardware?
@AskYourComputerGuy 9 ай бұрын
You won't have any issues upgrading to a larger drive. Here's how to seamlessly clone one to the other with no data loss or downtime :) How to clone a hard drive - EASY step by step walk-thru! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y55peMaFz-DQZIE.html
@AyupStuggy 9 ай бұрын
@@AskYourComputerGuy Great! That's good to know. Thanks very much. I'm watching it now.
@AyupStuggy 9 ай бұрын
@@AskYourComputerGuy Thanks. That other video looks great too. I will look at doing this ASAP.
@AskYourComputerGuy 9 ай бұрын
@AyupStuggy great! Let me know if you have any questions 👍
@AyupStuggy 9 ай бұрын
@@AskYourComputerGuy Ay up Scott! Brilliant! That's very kind of you. If you fancy watching someone suffer as he attempts to get fit, them I'm your man! I will let you know how I get on with the SSR, probably in a week or two as I have another bike ride to prepare for amongst other things. God Bless you :) Stuart (AKA Stuggy, my nickname!. Ay up is a Northern greeting here in the UK :)
@outcast2735 8 ай бұрын
Hi Ihave a problem with the ssd today when i open any app if the app is browser the diskusage up to 100% i do so much things literally and can’t fix it can you help me please 😢
@AskYourComputerGuy 8 ай бұрын
Yes. Start here: How To Fix 100% Disk Usage In Windows 10 ~ Disk Usage Fix In Windows | Ask Your Computer Guy kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o9BpnJxp2cDQkoE.html
@outcast2735 8 ай бұрын
@@AskYourComputerGuy First thing: thank you so much for reply For real i just see all videos on youtube and nothing help so i format the disk and install new windows and problem not fixed so i lost hope and think my ssd is died but after i watch your video and try the defraggler method it’s workk I didn’t believe after 30 hours from searching and try, you help me in 1 video you just earn new sub and i appreciate your help so much ❤️❤️❤️
@AskYourComputerGuy 8 ай бұрын
@outcast2735 wow, that is amazing! So glad I could help you out, my friend! 👍
@outcast2735 8 ай бұрын
@@AskYourComputerGuy Thank u 🙏🏻
@WayneWatson1 10 ай бұрын
Did you boot the hdd and ssd clones from your external dock you were using? If so, no wonder it was 9min and 1min. I've gone from 5min internal to 25sec internal for hdd/ssd
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
No from the main board. My BIOS always takes forever for some reason. Gotta look into that at some point, but all three were done the same way to keep it consistent 👍
@WayneWatson1 10 ай бұрын
@@AskYourComputerGuy gotcha. Was just curious. That did seem like a long time for ssd but if was a clone of your current system, it's definately possible.
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
@WayneWatson1 👍
@jeanbonnefoy1377 10 ай бұрын
I'm surprised you didn't mention the other obvious perks of solid state drive: the absence of all mechanical parts resulting in no noise, no vibration, less heat and last but certainly not least the sturdiness: no risk of failure following a shock or even a fall.
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
Benefits for sure. But for 99.98% of people, speed is the bigger issue. Those are just gravy 👍
@toby9999 10 ай бұрын
@@AskYourComputerGuy SSD's definitely win on speed, which is why I use them. I get W10 login screen in around 15 secs. Before the upgrade it was around 10mins. But mechanical drives are way more reliable in my opinion (unless dropped or something). So far, my failure rate for SSD's is 50% and when they go, they go really quickly. I haven't had any desktop hard drives fail in over 25 years. They just get retired due to obsolescence. I do daily backups to physical drives because I consider SSDs high risk.
@userunknown1030 10 ай бұрын
@@toby9999 yeah and as far as i can tell after start up hdd or only about a 10th of sec behind the other to options so honestly if your doing mostly the same activies i don't see the benefits to the other and like you said they are high risk and have built in death dates after so many reads and rewrites. think most companies moving to this type is for profit plan and simple hdd last way past there rated live spans and that kills profit.
@AskYourComputerGuy 9 ай бұрын
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@theeardrafter 10 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for your help. Its not as intimidating as it seems
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
Glad to help! 👍
@notyoung 10 ай бұрын
I've become an author in my old age (currently 13 books up on Amazon) and laptops are the most convenient PC for me to use: Back hurting from sitting in place X too long? Grab the laptop and move. Using SSDs ensures that motion can never affect the SSD and a drop of a few inches if my hands aren't up to the laptop's weight today won't affect the SSD. Even on a 10-year-old Dell laptop, the SSD makes a VERY obvious improvement. I had to connect an ancient mechanical hard drive to retrieve some archived information and it was S-L-O-W ;-) My longest book is 300,000 words and loading that in Word on a Dell E6420 from 2012 is acceptably fast from the SSD.
@luiscolocho3527 8 ай бұрын
Will an m.2 drive delete all my files i already have installed
@AskYourComputerGuy 8 ай бұрын
Only if you delete them. It's just a different type of drive, it doesn't "do" anything without your intervention
@nightmarerex2035 9 ай бұрын
what is the effect on say games installed on a SDD and the windows is on a HDD?
@AskYourComputerGuy 9 ай бұрын
Windows and programs need to be on SSD and files stored on HDD for maximum performance
@KaptainCnucklz 9 ай бұрын
Running a Dell Optiplex pre-built PC that I converted into a lower end gaming system. SSD was a huge boost in performance on most of my games, my loading screens are shorter, my frame timings in games is way smoother, and booting my PC is no longer something that takes nearly 5 minutes each morning. Not to mention launching any programs or games is only a few seconds. Love it.
@AskYourComputerGuy 9 ай бұрын
Nice!
@elwoodfanwwod 10 ай бұрын
Good info, good vid. Little dsapointed that you didn't touch on SATA bottlenecks and SATA limits or the insanely cheap prices for large HHDs and HHD RAIDs for back up.
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
Fair. But for most average people, even without the the finer points, the differences between the 3 variants alone might be enough to make them want to upgrade 👍
@oldmoviesinbwwithsubtitles3501 10 ай бұрын
Good info
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
Thank you! 👍
@GwG-aka-TheGoatee 9 ай бұрын
on older laptops - one from 2008, the other from 2010 - I replaced the OS HDD disks with SATA SSD's, and they both started in 30 seconds (give or take a few seconds). So, it works on older computers.
@AskYourComputerGuy 9 ай бұрын
Absolutely! And love the handle 😂
@job65taiwan 10 ай бұрын
I bought an IBM think pad and it came with a mother board. Can I send you picture for possible I.D. Ty
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
Send the serial number and I can look it up :)
@job65taiwan 10 ай бұрын
@@AskYourComputerGuy team tn2 94v -0 or maybe sis# pjd1756 1998?
@job65taiwan 10 ай бұрын
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@jonb3311 10 ай бұрын
Can you clone a current Win10 drive to an SSD without hitting problems with Microsoft registration?
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
100% yes
@Weissenschenkel 9 ай бұрын
SSDs are a game changer. My mom's PC was a paralyzed slug and now it's a cheetah. Honestly, it's way faster, either to boot up or to start programs. My laptop has dual boot (W10/Ubuntu) and the NVMe is also snappier than any HDD.
@AskYourComputerGuy 9 ай бұрын
Nice! 👍👍👍
@THE-michaelmyers 10 ай бұрын
When I assembled my current desktop I installed NVMe for my operating system on the MB. I get really incredible speeds. I have another NVMe for data needs when speed makes life easier. I then keep an old platter HD for my long-term data storage where speed is unimportant. Because I am a systems engineer I keep large amounts of data and make more all the time. In fact, after the first of the year, I will be spending several weeks in Western Europe helping troubleshoot a system I finished designing. I looked at the folder where that data is stored and it is almost 2 GB of data. I agree with the channel owner about his comments about keeping advice simple. This is why I recommend if you don't understand the difference between NVMe from SATA, or don't understand what a socket means as well as what memory speeds mean, PLEASE don't buy anything until you have spoken to somebody who does. Last year I got a phone call from a man who had just purchased a MB and a processor and could not figure out why his system had no video. It just so happened I had a processor that had graphics onboard that fit his socket.
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
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@PatrickDAllen1 10 ай бұрын
Well, my ten year old MSI laptop with an old mechanical, spinny HDD still seems to boot into Win 11's log on screen within about thirty seconds... Maybe another twentyish seconds to log in and load the desktop. I think that's very usable for my needs. People keep telling me it should be way slower because it's an old HDD. What am I doing wrong?!? 😢
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
Nothing. Ignore them and enjoy your laptop 👍
@PatrickDAllen1 10 ай бұрын
@AskYourComputerGuy I honestly can't believe the whole laptop is in such amazing shape. I've dropped it a few times, yet every piece of hardware inside seems to still be running great. I did a drive health check and the HDD isn't even beginning to show signs of failure. That thing is a... Beast. I was thinking of getting an SSD to connect externally, but I'll wait until the HDD seems to actually have any real issues. 🫡
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
@PatrickDAllen1 probably a good idea 👍
@PatrickDAllen1 10 ай бұрын
@AskYourComputerGuy I mean SSDs are cheap now, yeah, but it's still money spent when the old drive is still working great. For only a little boost in write speeds and load times.
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
@PatrickDAllen1 the key is that you have the knowledge. Now, apply it when and if you ever need it :)
@what_321 6 ай бұрын
Hi Scott; When I switched to the local account, it did not keep my KZfaq subs!! Just letting you know.
@AskYourComputerGuy 6 ай бұрын
That doesn't make sense. Your KZfaq subscribers are displayed through your Google account. Has zero to do with Microsoft in any way
@what_321 6 ай бұрын
OK. Thanks for the correction. My first mistake, all year. I think I did create a NEW Google account, to go along with my local acct.@@AskYourComputerGuy
@jokerhmood9222 10 ай бұрын
Can u help me plz I don't what happened with my pc when i uninstall app or download a file when i shut down or restart my pc the apps that i uninstall stay and the things that i download is gone so help me plz
@AskYourComputerGuy 9 ай бұрын
That sounds like Windows corruption. Have you tried running system file checker or chkdsk?
@jokerhmood9222 9 ай бұрын
@@AskYourComputerGuy i tried it didn’t work same problem
@AskYourComputerGuy 9 ай бұрын
Sounds like you need to reinstall Windows 🤷♂️🥲
@jokerhmood9222 9 ай бұрын
@@AskYourComputerGuy do u know how to delete trojon virus
@AskYourComputerGuy 9 ай бұрын
@jokerhmood9222 if your AV can't remove it, I would use TronScript. Here's how: Clean ANY malware or virus off ANY Windows computer with one FREE and SIMPLE program! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b86HqrxpsdWYkZs.html
@Pegaroo_ 10 ай бұрын
Are hard drives not digital? And with tlc and qlc ssds are they not less digital than hard drive since each cell can have more than 2 states.
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
They are digital in the fact that 1's and 0's are written electromagnetically, but the mechanics are what causes the speed issue (spinning platters, mechanical read-write head, magnets, etc.
@Pegaroo_ 10 ай бұрын
@@AskYourComputerGuy I know it's just you called traditional spinning rust hard drives "mechanical drives" and then called solid state drives "digital drives". To me both are digital but if you think about the individual cells in modern TLC or QLC SSDs since they hold more than one bit of data in each cell they could be considered not truly digital or at least less digital since they are not just a single binary 1 or 0. I just found it slightly amusing that you thought of SSDs as digital drives but not hard drives 🤔
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
@Pegaroo_ try to remember the audience...an average novice user doesn't know or care about the specs. One is primarily mechanical and the other is "not mechanical" in the way they work. Anything beyond that for a novice user who just has a "spinning" drive in their laptop just needs to know there faster options. That's all. My target audience isn't people who know the technical differences (which they can do homework on if/when they decide to upgrade). My audience is those who would just rather buy a new computer because they think that's is fast as it can ever go 👍
@Pegaroo_ 10 ай бұрын
@@AskYourComputerGuy I'm not suggesting that you should have covered TLC or QLC in this video just that saying one is digital implies the other is not which just isn't the case and if someone sees this video and picks up on that phrasing and asks for a "digital drive" at a computer store there's going to be some confusion when there need not have been
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
@Pegaroo_ another reason why I referred to it repeatedly as "an SSD" exexpt when explaining the tech behind it. But you're not wrong 👍
@Enjoymentboy 10 ай бұрын
I have an older HP powerbook that I use to control one of my 3D printers. It used to have a 500Gb WD blue 7000k rpm slim drive and boot times for Win 10 were 2+ minutes to get to the desktop with all background apps up and fully loaded. I recently installed an older 128GB Intel SSD I had kicking around, cloned the drive, changed no settings and boot time from dead off to fully running is now sub 30 seconds. This alone is worth the upgrade.
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
Nice!
@jescis0 10 ай бұрын
My biggest HDD is 8TB for my Data… 1TB for my OS'(I actually STILL dual boot Linux and Windows)… does the rpms make a difference between mechanical drives as well? 🤔🤔
@fragalot 10 ай бұрын
Did you do these tests with all three drives plugged directly into the motherboard? Not from the USB drive dock you have? (For which I don't see the link for that Sabrent drive dock with the M.2 port in the description) A M.2 drive over USB would be terribly slow going about 460mb/s performing like a SATA SSD. Also you didn't mention the importance of CACHE on SSD. Cheap drives often have no cache and often perform much slower than they should with comparable drives of different brands that cost a bit more that do have cache. Sure they still perform faster than HDDs, but even HDDs have cache. SSDs without cache will run speedy for reading/writing smaller files, but large file transfers will quickly slow down to a crawl.
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
Yes, connected to the main board not via usb which would be crazy slow! I'll check the link again but I'm pretty sure it's in there. Just checked, it's there: amzn.to/3t1OETv👍
@jaimecosta2966 Ай бұрын
Excelente vídeo
@AskYourComputerGuy Ай бұрын
Thank you!
@Wolf-xi4if 10 ай бұрын
i'm interested in knowing about reliability and recoverability of the digital drives vs the disk?
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
Excellent idea! I'll add it to the drawing board 👍 💪
@FlyboyHelosim 10 ай бұрын
HDDs are still the best option for longer-term data storage and also data recovery. Typically when an SSD dies, it dies. But when an HDD dies the data is still physically there most of the time.
@Wolf-xi4if 10 ай бұрын
@@FlyboyHelosim so for a backup or video archive HDD might be a better option.... 🤔 thanks. I'm also wondering about electrical damage, I imagine that would destroy a SSD. Just don't know what happens to the Disk with something like that.
@FlyboyHelosim 10 ай бұрын
@@Wolf-xi4if Yes I would always use an HDD for backups. They're generally more resilient and also don't require powering on as often as an SSD to maintain data integrity. You're right, SSDs are more susceptible to electrical damage whereas HDDs are more prone to magnetic damage. So as you're more likely to encounter electrical issues than magnetic ones, in theory SSDs are easier to damage during normal operation.
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
@FlyboyHelosim very true 👍
@briankleinschmidt3664 10 ай бұрын
I made a a lot of little old ladies happy swapping out their spinning rust. I made some coin, too. - Several years ago. Yes, you have to upgrade. It's a no brainer. Where have you been?
@jonhard12 10 ай бұрын
Nice video about hdd and ssd by today standard ssd is the way to go its just fast and if the write speed is too slow its will cause some issue also You should talk about pagefile since that's also quite important in some aspects Form my understanding some program need to have pagefile to run without any issue
@Bozemanjustin 10 ай бұрын
Anxiously awaiting your next video on switching from rotary phones to digital dial Lol I think this video might be about 10 years behind
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
You'd be surprised how many people still have mechanical drives 👍
@jeffb.6642 10 ай бұрын
10 years ago SSDs were just starting to become affordable for regular consumers, and if you wanted to fit one in a modest build you had to go with a 120 or even 60 GB drive to keep within budget. Forget about anything bigger unless you felt like devoting half of the budget to your storage solution. And back then there was not as stark of a difference because Windows 7 and 8/8.1 were not built around the assumption that the user would have one, so they ran "fine" on a mechanical drive. It's really only when we were a couple years into the life cycle of Windows 10 that Windows started all of it's background bloat hammering disk I/O that the SSD really became necessary. And yes, there are still folks with mechanical drives - though I do think that nowadays it's hard to find a new computer for sale that doesn't have an SSD of some kind, thank god.
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
@jeffb.6642 👍
@Micharus 9 ай бұрын
I shifted (cloned) my OS to an M.2 drive on my PC and the difference in boot speed is to say, startling. On the laptop side of things, I have an old Toshiba A660 gaming laptop and the battery just wasn't charging anymore. I called a place for a new one and while I was waiting on that, bought a 1TB SSD to put in it. A really odd thing happened when I went to install Win 10 on the SSD, now installed in the laptop..... the battery started to charge again, so double win. Old laptop with a new OS and SSD in it and no battery to buy. I called the place I was getting the battery from to cancel my order, would have been a dick move not to. Now all I need to do is find two 4 GB ram sticks that are compatible with the laptop, a little difficult being DDR3!
@AskYourComputerGuy 9 ай бұрын
Check Crucial.com, you'll find it there 👍
@skorpian34 3 ай бұрын
My old desktop from boot to usability was approx 45 minutes. Even with a good quality 9600 rpm seagate HDD. After switching to a Samsung EVO SSD that time dropped to 2 minutes! All your file conversions, file copy or transfers, video editing, maintenance scans and backups now happen in a few minutes. My pc saw a whole new life and I started enjoying it again. VERY WORTH IT. Since the system is being opened up to install the drive that's also a perfect time to also max out your ram.
@AskYourComputerGuy 3 ай бұрын
Very nice!
@dianaalyssa8726 9 ай бұрын
SSDs and nvmes have always been worth putting the OS on.
@Ladioz 5 ай бұрын
Question is, should we move away from SATA and get M.2 ?
@AskYourComputerGuy 3 ай бұрын
If you can afford it, it's much faster.
@peterschmidt9942 10 ай бұрын
I've used Macrim Reflect before an I'm pretty sure it only copies up to a certain amount of partitions (not enough for your regular Windows factory install). Considering you're installing a Crucial SSD, its generally better to use their Acronis software and that will clone as many partitions as you through at it. I ended up doing this years ago with an ASUS laptop I had. When I purchased it, it's specs were up there. Not the fastest but not far off - it had an A10 AMD with 16GB RAM. Swapping over even to a SATA SSD sped it up considerably from read speeds of 100MBS to generally 400-500MBs. I got at least another 3 years out of it (8yrs total) until there was a dodgey Windows update that aided in bricking the mother board LOL. After a replacement MOBO was sourced, it got a new lease on life for my daughter. It still runs Windows 10 pretty well. Considering the cost of the SSD was about $150 for a 1TB, certainly cheaper than the $1500 for a new laptop at the time. But as you said, you also have to look at what external peripherals ports you have. Not much point upgrading something that only has USB2.0 connections unless you're re-purposing and already have the hardware there from another computer.
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
Can't speak to that. I think mine had at least 5-6 partitions and it copied fine. If not, there is always other programs out there without those limitations 👍
@peterschmidt9942 10 ай бұрын
@@AskYourComputerGuy You' might have an older version of the software? I'm sure I used it years ago as well to copy over and it worked as you said. But the latest version might be limited as I wasn't able to use it recently.
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
@peterschmidt9942 the link in the description is to Macrium 8.1 which is the last version you can use for free, per Macrium. Same version I use in the video 👍
@Referee006 9 ай бұрын
What is the difference between cloning a drive and imaging a drive?
@AskYourComputerGuy 9 ай бұрын
Great question! Imaging your drive means creating a snapshot of the existing system on an external drive for example, in which you could boot to a recovery disc, select the image file and "wipe" your existing installation with that image. Perfect for damaged Windows installs. A drive clone works the same way, except you duplicate your existing instalation onto another drive that you can physically swap with your current drive. Both contents identical, except a clone is perfect for physical drive damage, not just Windows corruption. Make sense?
@Referee006 9 ай бұрын
@@AskYourComputerGuy Thanks for your reply. If I understood you correctly, an image is good to restore Windows while a clone is good to restore an entire computer (including Windows) to another computer; is that correct? If the SSD drive in my computer dies, I would want to restore my entire computer on the new drive and not just Windows. And so, I believe that in order to do that, cloning is the way to go, right?
@AskYourComputerGuy 9 ай бұрын
@Referee006 correct. My next video is how to clone a drive, you might want to watch it to make sure you feel comfortable doing it 👍
@Referee006 9 ай бұрын
@@AskYourComputerGuy thanks again for your reply. I will watch your video.
@MrSunDevil23 10 ай бұрын
SSDs are a game changer. Doing IT support for 30 years, when I redo a PC or laptop and replace a mechanical drive with an SSD it brings tears to my client’s eyes. Definitely a cheap alternative to give new life to an aging computer.
@RAFchurchlawford4469 8 ай бұрын
You forgot to mention that the short life of the SSD also brings tears to your clients eyes
@AskYourComputerGuy 8 ай бұрын
@rafchurchlawford4469 that's where having solid backups and even a drive clone come in real handy.
@MrSunDevil23 8 ай бұрын
Knock on wood-I haven’t had an SSD fail on me and I’ve been using them since they were SUPER expensive and very small. In fact, I still have an 80 Gb Intel SSD that I bought many years ago.
@AskYourComputerGuy 8 ай бұрын
@scott4918 lucky you! I've had a couple go bad, and some of them have lasted longer than expected 🤷♂️
@MrSunDevil23 8 ай бұрын
Obviously they aren’t used for important data!! Love your channel, keep it up!!
@qualityflooringmanitousprings 5 ай бұрын
I think that type of upgrade would be more like upgrading from a turtle to a jet!
@retropcscotland4645 10 ай бұрын
TEMU sell m.2 pcie cards for those with spare slots and older machines. I ordered some to test.
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
Let me know how it works out 👍
@retropcscotland4645 10 ай бұрын
@@AskYourComputerGuy I will brother as soon as it get's here from China. You know how long that takes lol.
@fragalot 10 ай бұрын
The one thing to keep in mind is that if your PC does not have an M.2 connector, and you buy an addon PCIe card to use a M.2 SSD, you will be able to use it, but you will likely NOT be able to boot from it. BIOS needs to support NVMe in order to boot from a M.2 drive, and it's likely your motherboard's BIOS will not have that support that if it never had a M.2 connector. You might find BIOS updates that allow older motherboards to support NVMe but it's likely NOT from the manufacture of your motherboard. Often they are 3rd party hacks and that can come with risks bricking your motherboard if you use the wrong BIOS. There are tools you can build your own custom BIOS, and install the libraries you need (e.g. NVMe), but again, it's risky, unless your motherboard has a button on the back for emergency BIOS flashes from a USB stick so you can bring it back to original settings.
@mickfreeley6054 10 ай бұрын
Good point. For older machines 2.5" SATA SSDs are dirt cheap so just go with that option instead. Cheapest decent drives (Team, Silicon Power) on Newegg right now are 250 GB for $17.
@FlyboyHelosim 10 ай бұрын
Good points. I recently found out that not all computers can boot from an M.2 NVMe SSD when installed via PCIe adapter board. It could still be used as a storage drive, but could not be booted from.
@fragalot 10 ай бұрын
@@mickfreeley6054Yes they are PERFECT for old laptops that still have a 2.5" SATA drive in them.
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
Good tip
@Coffeeenjoyer31 7 ай бұрын
I still own HDD for my home media server stuff and bulk storage, but aside from that the price is definitely worth buying SSD for boot drive and secondary drives for games etc.
@nycbearff 9 ай бұрын
I just put a cheap 500gb SSD in a friend's old laptop that only has 4gb memory. I installed MX linux with a 20 gb swap partition, and it's working really nicely. It's not zippy - but it's way faster than it was with the old hard drive and Windows 10 on it - that was impossibly slow. it'll be great for day to day things. And with lots of things open simultaneously, using all the memory and 4gb of the swap, there was only a little slowdown - the SSD is fast enough that the swap file works really well. It'll never be a gaming laptop, but I'm really happy with the result.
@AskYourComputerGuy 9 ай бұрын
Well done 💪👍
@GamingKing545 10 ай бұрын
An SSD, being notably swifter, can tangibly reduce loading times, particularly on older hardware configurations.
@AskYourComputerGuy 10 ай бұрын
Agreed!
@ColinsGardenRailway Ай бұрын
Only Issue I have with this is that here in Australia, wholesalers are charging $90 for a PNY 1Tb SSD so by the time it gets to retail your looking around $120 . Why are prices in the USA so cheap ???
@AskYourComputerGuy Ай бұрын
Ouch. Maybe adjustment for distance to ship?
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