New 1Tb M.2 SSD drive ordered for my Acer laptop.

[Simon Barden]

If your data isn't saved in at least three different locations, it's not safe.

[jugglindan]

Do you mean different hard drive locations? Or different physical locations? I agree with the need for both. Having 4 copies on different drives all at home doesn't help if my home burns down, falls over and then sinks into the mud. But it does protect against the more common drive failures. For physical locations, my drive stored at work and updated monthly helps somewhat. Critical stuff is also stored offsite.

[DrNomis_44]

Update:

I've just checked the postal tracking for the parcel containing the new 1Tb M.2 SSD drive I ordered, and apparently it is due for delivery today, I've already confirmed my availability for delivery and now it's just a waiting-game, feeling pretty excited about this.

[JohnH]

That's exciting!

[DrNomis_44]

That's exciting!

I just hope that it is compatible with my laptop's motherboard.

[king casey]

I just hope that it is compatible with my laptop's motherboard.

I think you'll probably find that they are.

FWIW I've just got a Samsung EVO 500GB to replace the drive in my Lenovo E530.
Whilst investigating whether I may need an adapter, found that the connection is identical to other drives.

I have a portable powered caddy that I use to access data directly from HDD's external to the PC.

Laptop has a bracket that they screw into.


For me the test comes into play when I attempt to 'migrate' the same version of Windows 10 onto the new drive.

cheers, Mark.

[DrNomis_44]

I think you'll probably find that they are.

FWIW I've just got a Samsung EVO 500GB to replace the drive in my Lenovo E530.
Whilst investigating whether I may need an adapter, found that the connection is identical to other drives.

I have a portable powered caddy that I use to access data directly from HDD's external to the PC.

Laptop has a bracket that they screw into.


For me the test comes into play when I attempt to 'migrate' the same version of Windows 10 onto the new drive.

cheers, Mark.

The 1Tb M.2 SSD I'm getting is a smaller type, one of these:

https://www.mwave.com.au/product/cru...p1ssd8-ac19488


My studio desktop pc has four of these installed in it now:

https://www.mwave.com.au/product/sam...q1t0bw-ac20878

[king casey]

In that case I'll revise my description from 'identical' to 'similar' hehe.

cheers, Mark.

[DrNomis_44]

Woohoo!!!!....the parcel containing the new 1Tb M.2 SSD drive just arrived in the post.






Ok, next step is to do all my backing-up of all my wanted data that's on my laptop's stock 256Gb M.2 SSD drive prior to installing the new 1Tb M.2 SSD drive.


Backing-up done....time to install the new 1Tb M.2 SSD drive in my Acer laptop, then it's on to doing a complete new clean install of Windows 10 64 Bit build 2004, and then I can get all my Daw software installed.

New 1Tb M.2 SSD drive is now installed, I've just finished installing a fresh new copy of Windows 10 64 Bit build 2004 on my Acer laptop, everything went smoothly, initially the new SSD drive wasn't coming up in my laptop's bios screen, that's because it was un-formatted, however, the Windows 10 64 bit installer DVD that I used, saw that the new SSD was installed....which was a very good sign, it came up as a 931Gb drive, I'm very pleased with that, boot-up is very fast too.


So far, practically zero issues.

I've got some pics to post in this thread later on....stay tuned.

[dave.king1]

The Win 10 installer DVD is a matter of interest to me, my desktop pc was an online upgrade from Win 8.1 and my laptop from Win 7 so there are no install disks or serial numbers to work with, does a recovery disk resolve this issue.

Apparently the "free" upgrade is linked to the mac address or some other hard coded id of the motherboard and primary HD.

Swapping out the C drive for any reason scares the hell out of me for this reason