How to Install an NVMe SSD in a PC (using M.2 Adapter Card)

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How to Install an NVMe SSD in a PC using M.2 Adapter Card with a SAMSUNG 970 EVO SSD 1TB drive. This is done using using a M.2 PCI Express adapter card from NFHK. This video shows a desktop SSD install with a PCIe adapter card. Installation is with a M.2 SAMSUNG 970 EVO Plus SSD attached to a PCI express card and inserted into a PCIe x16 slot. This allows you to use or install any NVMe SSD or SATA 3 solid state drives into your desktop computer. In this video tutorial guide you can see the complete step by step M.2 SSD installation and formatting with a Windows 10 desktop computer. You will also see the SSD setup process using Windows 10 Device Manager and Windows 10 Disk Management. Setting up a new SSD within Windows 10 or Windows 11 takes only minutes to complete.
The best way to learn how to do a M.2 MVMe SSD setup and installation into a laptop or desktop computer is by seeing it done correctly in this video.
Using a M.2 PCIe Express adapter card is a great solution when you need to add a 2nd M.2 NVMe SSD in your desktop computer. Especially if you either have only one M.2 slot or no M.2 slots at all in your older desktop computer. So keep in mind that a PCI express card installation is easy to do and in this video see how to build an USB 3.0 external SSD with tutorial with performance tests. The external SSD performance test is done using Crystal Disk Mark 8.
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@Drew-gl8oz 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for showing the process!! Video helped quite a bit!!

@nickscomputerfix 2 жыл бұрын

Great to hear!

@alexferreira9094 2 жыл бұрын

Damn son! I spent so many hours searching for the solution. Yours was the last important piece!! THANKS

@nickscomputerfix 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks!

@farianit 10 ай бұрын

Thank you! Extremely helpful video

@nickscomputerfix 10 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it!

@raihanlilo8296 Жыл бұрын

Thx u this video rly help me, finnaly I can put my ssd nvme to the pcie adapter

@nickscomputerfix Жыл бұрын

Glad that my video helped you out. Thanks for sharing.

@user-tr8uq6el3h 7 ай бұрын

THANKS a lot for showing how the little nut and screw got position I was going nuts trying to figure it out!!!!🤓

@nickscomputerfix 7 ай бұрын

The nut and screw position on the case, was tricky for me as well the first time until I figured it out.😎

@nikolasdhimoshi9993 2 жыл бұрын

Nice bro, you helped me and as I saw the video was uploaded 4 minutes ago 👍👍

@nickscomputerfix 2 жыл бұрын

Great to hear! Thanks.

@ppwb35 6 ай бұрын

OMG. Do you know how much time you just saved me. i was trying how to unscrew the hold down part, screw it into the adaptor. i would have been at this all night. thank you so much.

@nickscomputerfix 6 ай бұрын

You're welcome. That drove me nuts for a little while as well.😁

@Exorcist-kd3dy 4 ай бұрын

WOW thank you so much you saved my day and many hours of headache!

@nickscomputerfix 4 ай бұрын

Great to hear! 😎👍

@nunyabidness_sirmadam Жыл бұрын

Very helpful for someone like me trying to get their CompTIA A+ cert. Great video.

@candra_79 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for the information

@nickscomputerfix 9 ай бұрын

You bet!

@kerlik9310 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! You helped me!

@nickscomputerfix 4 ай бұрын

Glad I could help!

@barbieonline1 4 ай бұрын

thanks a lot my friend . you just saved my nervous cells)) and my life too. really appreciate i bought new ssd nvme and windows do not see it. cant find information on my language. now everithing works.

@nickscomputerfix 4 ай бұрын

Glad to hear that!

@gabrielchamuell2680 Ай бұрын

Thank you

@nickscomputerfix Ай бұрын

You're welcome

@briannichols118 6 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@nickscomputerfix 6 ай бұрын

Thank you. It's appreciated!

@petermoeller5901 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video. Would have been even better if you showed how this new drive is made the boot drive.

@nickscomputerfix 3 ай бұрын

Next time

@alukea123 6 ай бұрын

This is the adaptor on amazon NFHK NGFF M-Key NVME AHCI SSD to PCI-E 3.0 16x x4 Adapter for 80mm XP941 SM951 PM951 A110 m6e 960 EVO SSD

@19440116 8 ай бұрын

I installed but the present windows doesn't recognise it. While Ubuntu, installed on the same PC recognizes it: how can this happen?

@reboxtherapy 8 ай бұрын

Windows isn't the best o .s. , . It'd be better anyway to use an original SSD Sata connector hard drive on an old motherboard.

@julianweiser9985 7 ай бұрын

Nice Video. Make sure to ground yourself electrically beforehand and try not to touch any metal contacts. Have fun!

@nickscomputerfix 7 ай бұрын

Good call!

@Irfankuttu Ай бұрын

Is there any difference between ssd slot through connecting and pci?

@Mr_Draku 7 ай бұрын

hello, it's a cool and nice video but i have a question : Can i put the OS on the NVMe who is on the PCI express or simple PCI slot or i must put it in a ssd-Sata ?

@nickscomputerfix 7 ай бұрын

Yes if your computer BIOS / UEFI detects it as a bootable drive for Windows OS.

@ismailonur 4 ай бұрын

@@nickscomputerfix I have installed my ssd on nvme adapter on pci express, i was able to install windows on it but i got this 'the current bios settings do not fully support the boot device...' and ask me to change some bios settings under the csm parameters but no matter what i choose there, it doesn't boot from the hard drive. any guess you think i can do?

@ethimself5064 2 жыл бұрын

Do you have a solid site so as I can get a firm understanding on SSD's? My next computer will certainly have one and I need to know what I actually need that is as dead nuts reliable as can be. Apparently the newer ones can be Defragged although not a actually needed. I have watch a number of vids in here and they all end up confusing me cuz they are too specific and not a general learning tool as such. Thanks👍👍

@nickscomputerfix 2 жыл бұрын

If you go to my KZfaq channel @nickscomputerfix you will find multiple videos on SSD installs and configurations. I'm sure they will help you out. Also, you don't need to defrag SSD drives and if you do, it just wears them out faster and shortens there life. Samsung EVO drives are the leader among solid state drives in performance and reliability with WD_Black SSD right behind them, in my opinion.

@ethimself5064 2 жыл бұрын

@@nickscomputerfix Thanks👍

@szago8196 4 ай бұрын

Hey, do you by any chance know if that adapter utilizes entire x16 slot? I know it fits into x16 but I've been looking around and saw many adapters that fit into x16 but only utilize x4...

@StephanieDinatale 11 ай бұрын

Hi! I have an HP Zbook which has two hard drive slots, I currently have just one installed and I'm planning on getting a new one. I use it for architecture renders and designs so I need a lot of space also a hard drive that is resistant and fast. I currently have the SSD 2.5 SAMSUNG MZ7LN256HMJP-000H1. The hard dirve doesn't fit directly into the slot, it actually has a small cord that connects it from a metal case into the laptop. Do you think that I can use a M.2 SSD with an adapter? Do you think it would be better to use that one or would it be better to buy an SSD 2.5? Thank you very much! 🥰

@nickscomputerfix 11 ай бұрын

The M.2 adapter shown in my video is for desktop computers. It will not work in laptops.

@ParthaManna0 Жыл бұрын

how much speed you will get?

@FreedomFighterAsuka Ай бұрын

I finally found a review of this particular adapter after searching for it so long and... you didn't do a speed test. That was the whole reason I was looking for a review. Anyway, can anyone tell me if this adapter is X4 and can give full speed of a Gen 3 SSD? I have a 3000 Mbps SSD and I was wondering if it gives you the full speed or if it's like X1 adapter and only gives a small performance.

@briannichols118 6 ай бұрын

Sent you thanks. Tech may change but great teachers don't. When the adapter card (AMPCOM M.2 NVME SSD to PCIe 4.0 X4 with cooling) arrives next week I'm planning to clone the woefully inadequate 180 GB system disk in my still plucky I7 64 Gbyte core HP Envy Desktop 795-0010 with a Samsung SSD 980 Pro (PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2). I will figure it out, The issue has to do with installing 10 lbs of potatoes in a 5 lb sack, as Dolly Parton put it years ago. This model of HP Envoy has a 180 Gbyte system disk. I wouldn't go so far to say it was the one weakness of the design, since the rest of it is great, can only imagine why HP skimped on the SSD as a Windows boot drive. Everyone puts all of their stuff there. That said, need to clone the tiny existing SSD system drive on a faithful, older computer so looking forward to a video on cloning the operating system to a newly installed (yet far larger) SSD drive

@nickscomputerfix 6 ай бұрын

Good luck with your project. Thanks for your comments and the Big Thanks you sent. It's appreciated!

@user-sq9kk4cw9u 7 ай бұрын

what is speed?

@isaisa8015 Жыл бұрын

How we can put in windows 10 on this ssd?

@renzoguerrero2930 12 күн бұрын

I come a long time later, does anyone know if the operating system can be installed on the m.2 connected to the adapter? I have an old computer, with an i5-4000, and I want to change the hard drive, but But I don't know if this type of adapter can be used for such old computers, or is it better to buy an SSD that is already good compared to a hard drive?

@maxoverridemax 10 ай бұрын

Question. Could you install your OS onto the drive in the adapter card?

@nickscomputerfix 10 ай бұрын

You sure can.

@pabloe5793 Жыл бұрын

Once I install this new SSD, can I remove the old hard drive? Or is there something I need to do before completely getting rid of the HDD?

@nickscomputerfix Жыл бұрын

If you only plan to use the new SSD M.2 2280 in your system, then you will need to first either clone it from your old drive so you can boot up into Windows and have bootable Windows OS and all your data and settings on it or format the M.2 drive and install Windows on it and make it bootable into Windows.

@ZDude-do6sw 9 ай бұрын

hey can you use it for the secondary pcie slot(white) on your MOBO?

@nickscomputerfix 9 ай бұрын

Blue and black slots on a MOBO are normally PCI-E slots and white ones are normally just your regular PCI slots. So no, you can not use the white PCI slot.

@sagaronline265 8 ай бұрын

can we do this for laptop with motherboard supporting only m.2 sata ssd? if yes than which M.2 Adapter Card you suggest for ASPIRE 3 A315-41 laptop?

@nickscomputerfix 8 ай бұрын

Unfortunately it will only work in a desktop computer.

@herveclaveau507 4 ай бұрын

Hi, thank you for demo I would like to do same for my old hp xw8600 but "is this M.2 adapter compatible with all gen of PCI Express x16?" and "are all NVMe ssd mountable and bootable with Win10 on it?"

@nickscomputerfix 4 ай бұрын

Yes Windows 10 will boot from SSD.

@muzan-kun626 10 ай бұрын

Is there a connector for nvme2 ssd? My laptop has 1 slot which has pre-installed ssd.there are two ports available for ssd and hdd for which they have given only hdd connector. I want ssd adaptor if available

@nickscomputerfix 10 ай бұрын

You might consider an external M.2 case. "SSD Case Review and Setup - USB SSK M.2 NVME SSD Enclosure Case: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/irenfql3q8mZlIk.html

@orgrimdoomhammer2161 Ай бұрын

can this work on msi p67a with i7 2600?

@user-ej4yu5ce4o 3 ай бұрын

This work with both SATA NGFF and PCIE NVME?

@moez3524 2 ай бұрын

Can i have the adapter card link? or can i use any adapter link

@Mark-iq8lt 2 ай бұрын

Does this work if you don’t have any m.2 slots to start with I bought one replace my sata ssd then found I had no where to put it

@nickscomputerfix 2 ай бұрын

Yes it will work. It fits in your PCIe slot on your motherboard.

@hamid.s.zolfagari 2 ай бұрын

is it possible to use m.2-to-usb adapter in order to connect nvme ssd to computer ?

@nickscomputerfix 2 ай бұрын

Yes, here's my video on one: "SSD Case Review and Setup - USB SSK M.2 NVME - External Portable SSD Enclosure Case" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/irenfql3q8mZlIk.html

@harrymulalet9078 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Nick, I'm going to get a 4g+ router. I have one simple question that was running on my mind for quite some time. Does a 4g+ SIM Router has better significance than 4g SIM Router in an area with 4g only? I am in an area with 4g only, so can a 4g+ sim router give me a better internet connection? Thumbs up for the video!

@nickscomputerfix 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the Thumbs Up on my video. I would suggest looking into a 5g sim router to future proof for a few years.

@harrymulalet9078 2 жыл бұрын

@@nickscomputerfix Thanks, but I was asking can a 4g+ sim router give a better signal than 4g sim router in an area with 4g (not 4g+)?

@nickscomputerfix 2 жыл бұрын

4G+ or LTE-A or LTE-Advanced sim routers in general will be speeder then 4G sim routers. They normally use 2 bands at the same time and 4G only uses 1 band at a time. But to take advantage of this your carrier must support 4G+ in your area.

@harrymulalet9078 2 жыл бұрын

@@nickscomputerfix Ok thanks bro. Well explained!

@sudhakarhegde6679 Ай бұрын

Sir, can we install windows in this nvme m.2 ssd installed in pciex16 slot? Please guide sir.

@nickscomputerfix Ай бұрын

You sure can.

@greenfire9402 5 ай бұрын

once you attach your m2 card into the adapter does it go faster?

@nickscomputerfix 5 ай бұрын

Yes, everything speeds up.

@cheetogang879 Жыл бұрын

What happens if I see a green light but can’t find the ssd in my managers or anywhere or if I see no light on the adaptor and I see 2 red leds in my ssd

@nickscomputerfix Жыл бұрын

Go into your BIOS and see if you can see it there. You also might need a updated BIOS for your computer to see it.

@hipersonic999 7 ай бұрын

@@nickscomputerfix The green light is on, but it doesn't show up anywhere, and my BIOS is updated, since I already have two SSDs installed and running, could it be that the adapter is defective?

@mdmostafijarrahamanlimon8240 Жыл бұрын

How to install windows in this drive?

@kevinhanley6462 6 ай бұрын

Alors, tu jus insérer la carte dans la fente pour le PCIe 4x, puis euh... essayer un flash pour le BIOS nuveau et c'est tout fait ? Félicitations ! Malheursement, c'est plus compliqué avec un Gigabyte carte mère.

@Matlockization 2 жыл бұрын

How much performance would you lose from the NVMe adapter ?

@nickscomputerfix 2 жыл бұрын

None to very little if any.

@Matlockization 2 жыл бұрын

@@nickscomputerfix Could be a tempting little project.

@Lukeyd19 3 ай бұрын

Do we still get the full performance of the ssd with using this?

@nickscomputerfix 3 ай бұрын

I do, however, a lot depends on your computer hardware, drivers, bios, configuration and performance.

@maheshjangam7374 10 ай бұрын

Sir ,is m.2 slot adapter card available to laptop???

@nickscomputerfix 10 ай бұрын

The M.2 adapter card will only work on desktops computers.

@BanBMO 7 ай бұрын

Do you still need to format the m.2 with this adapter?

@nickscomputerfix 7 ай бұрын

You sure do.

@BanBMO 7 ай бұрын

@@nickscomputerfix sweet thx

@RazzeeTV 10 ай бұрын

Does it use all lanes of the PCI-E slot?

@justin6581 9 ай бұрын

No. It only uses x4. However, it will fit in x8 and x16 slots and work, but you will not get the speed of the x8 or x16 with one SSD. It will also work in open-ended x1 and x2 slots, but it will be much slower, by 4 or 2 times, respectively.

@FreedomFighterAsuka Ай бұрын

@@justin6581 Since it's X4, will I get PCIe Gen 3 full speed? I have a 3000 Mbps SSD and I wanna know if you get the full speed for it. Or if it will be 800 something.

@justin6581 Ай бұрын

@@FreedomFighterAsukait is no different than just using a built in nvme m.2 slot.

@FreedomFighterAsuka 20 күн бұрын

@@justin6581 So I won't lose any speed? Alright then.

@ashishrawat7228 2 ай бұрын

kya ye PCI e slot me lagega

@nickscomputerfix 2 ай бұрын

It fits into a PCI express slot.

@You2ubyTunes 7 ай бұрын

MYY SSD IS WORKING BUT ITS BLINKING RED ?

@nickscomputerfix 7 ай бұрын

It's normal for it to blink red. It's for show....for gaming cases that allow you to see inside, that have everything lite with many color lights.

@alukea123 6 ай бұрын

pciex4? 5:55

@magmik63 2 жыл бұрын

Is it that easy to do to a laptop?

@nickscomputerfix 2 жыл бұрын

Installing an SSD in Laptops most of the time, is not as easy unless yours has easy access to your storage drive bay for a 2.5 SSD or easy access to a M.2 slot. Some laptops require one screw removal for access and others require almost a complete laptop disassembly to access the 2.5 bay or M.2 slot.

@KenanRaptor Жыл бұрын

You are opening it wrong. You can hold the bag between your indexfinger and your dumb. Move your fingers the opposite direction from each other and it opens up.