Qactuar
Distinguished Member
Here's one for you lovely folks.
Question: cloning/upgrading an NVMe drive, when you have only one M2 slot ... how have people successfully managed this?
I've got a 128GB NVMe drive, with a secondary 1TB SSD, but know that black Friday is going to be hard to resist if a 1TB NVMe is going cheap...
My guesses are:
1. Enclosure of new disk and clone externally
2. Some sort of software solution that can work via a USB/external on boot and clone that way
Any thoughts? It's a brave new world for me with a laptop (my i5 2500 was built 8 years ago now...it's had a good innings), so determined to get it in good shape before migrating my life over. Already increased RAM to 16GB and added the 1TB disk, but just the boot drive to think about now.
Lucked out with this laptop in a "refurb" deal on eBay - listing had an error and instead of a Dell grade B refurb, I got a brand new under warranty machine for £249 (i7 8565U, 8GB,128GB/1TB spinner/17" screen/ATI GPU). It'll be a lightroom workhorse mainly with the our 32" 1440p screen, but I might put the odd legacy game on there
Question: cloning/upgrading an NVMe drive, when you have only one M2 slot ... how have people successfully managed this?
I've got a 128GB NVMe drive, with a secondary 1TB SSD, but know that black Friday is going to be hard to resist if a 1TB NVMe is going cheap...
My guesses are:
1. Enclosure of new disk and clone externally
2. Some sort of software solution that can work via a USB/external on boot and clone that way
Any thoughts? It's a brave new world for me with a laptop (my i5 2500 was built 8 years ago now...it's had a good innings), so determined to get it in good shape before migrating my life over. Already increased RAM to 16GB and added the 1TB disk, but just the boot drive to think about now.
Lucked out with this laptop in a "refurb" deal on eBay - listing had an error and instead of a Dell grade B refurb, I got a brand new under warranty machine for £249 (i7 8565U, 8GB,128GB/1TB spinner/17" screen/ATI GPU). It'll be a lightroom workhorse mainly with the our 32" 1440p screen, but I might put the odd legacy game on there