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Is this better than Corsair mx500?
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ahh thanks
yes fans are clean
my CPU is i7-8550U, 8GB ram, i think it is a 9360 also (only 1 USB-C)
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I did it via:
USB bootable disk cloning utility (clonezilla)
imaging the primary nvme disk to a standard external SSD
swapping primary NVME drive
booting again via disk cloning utility
and...
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Unless you benchmark them, in 90% of everyday computing, you won't notice any difference.
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The 960 EVO is much better at power efficiency, I have it in a XPS 13 9360 and I don't experience any thermal throttling. Are your fans clean? I am actually passing over this for an 860 EVO M.2 for...
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Going from a SATA SSD to this for an OS drive. Are there noticeable performance gains? Besides boot time? I have a 500mb/s read write drive now. I couldn't find much online on this topic.
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ah, ok. mine has 2. didn't know it was such a rarity
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You can try a cleaning management program such as the popular CCleaner. Being a NVME PCIe drive, the whole process should not take 10 minutes of your time.
Now for the most part, if you don't...
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Well, if you had followed the rest of the reply chain you'd have seen that it ended up being something screwy with his indexing that windirstat found, which he was then able to troubleshoot and fix....
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I would go with 512GB. 256GB fill up too fast and I don't want to spend time trying to get rid of unneeded files.
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Come on $50...
And good luck cloning from a HDD to a m.2 drive. I am 0/2 getting them to boot properly after imaging, even running windows startup repair on them. It screws with the boot...
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Windows OS itself is not that big to begin with. Do a disk cleanup and check if you have windows update install files. That takes up a lot disk space and can be deleted.
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You may be able to find better deals through Google Express with the 20% off coupon APRSAVE19
Like this Crucial MX500- $62.16 after coupon
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Just correcting this for you. NEW Macs use proprietary connectors. Older Macs (at least some of the Macbooks) sometimes used standard connectors. I know because I recently upgraded to SSD in my late...
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Because almost no laptops have multiple pcie M.2 slots. Also worth noting that you need a very specific model of USB enclosure to access an NVME/PCIE drive. Most of the cheapo models on Amazon are...
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Unless your computer has multiple PCIe or M.2 slots. Then you can use a second one of those.
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If the 256GB model cost the same or just about the same that's a no brainer. But if the hassle of return the 256GB is just that a hassle will that's a no-brainer as well.....
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Wow!!! That's crazy!!!
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WinDirStat is to give a file level view of what folders/files are taking up space. If its an update or windows.old folder then run disk cleanup. If it was a program with it's own temp files/dir or...
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Perfect timing, needed a good one about this size and for a good price. In for one, thanks OP.
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