hi and welcome back to this byte4u in this video i'm going to show you how to install an m.2
ssd into your computer i'm going to show you not only how to install it into your motherboard but
i'm also going to show you how to install windows 10 onto it and then how to configure your bios to
boot off of it afterwards i'm going to show you some of the differences between m.2 ssds and
regular sata ssds as well as the differences between m.2 drives so come over here real quick
and let's get started all right so again we're going to be installing onto the soberant
rocket 4.0 m.2 pcie nvme ssd now this particular drive and there are quite a
few there it's so fast that it requires a heatsink depending on your system cooling
now on the particular system i'm going to be installing on it has a heat shield over here so
i don't really need that this is not the board that we're going to be installing windows on
but this is just to give you an example so right over here you're going to notice there's a little
slit right down here dividing up that slot and then right over here on the m.2 slot itself
you're going to notice there's that same little slit right over here little piece of plastic so
what we're going to do is we're going to align both of them up and just literally
push it right in there very lightly you don't need to push very hard
then we're going to grab that m.2 screw and just push this down
screw it in
and that's it we've physically installed an m.2
ssd into your machine now let's go ahead and install windows on it all right so before we turn
the system on first thing we're going to want to do is plug in the usb drive with windows 10 on it
now if you don't know how to create this i'll go ahead and put a link up above
so you can check that video out as well as down in the description below
then we'll turn her on now right when you turn around you're going to want to start tapping
the delete or f2 key whatever it is to enter your bias okay so once we enter the bios just go ahead
click cancel here now your bios may look a little different but the method to do everything i'm
going to do is relatively similar but of course if you have any questions go ahead leave them in
the comments below i reply to all my comments okay so here we're going to go over to boot
and over here boot option number one is going to be generic flash disk now don't be afraid if you
don't see your drive there you're not going to see it unless you already have a partition on it
it's a brand new drive we don't have anything on it that's what we're going to do now okay so at
this point we'll just go ahead hit f10 to save and exit because we're booting off of that thumb drive
all right so here select your language and your time and currency format
and keyboard method and click next install now
okay now if you have a key go ahead and enter it in here now if you don't this will last you for
a while so just go ahead and click i don't have a product key but you can always put
in a key later on within windows okay select which version you have i have windows 10 pro
make sure to read through all of this incredibly important and now click i
accept the license term and next let's do a custom install okay so now here you see
the entire drive 2 terabytes or 1.863 it's going to be different potentially on your
drive you can either do new if you want to load different partitions or for me i always
just do next and i use the entire drive this is going to take about seven minutes or so
okay then we'll click restart now okay so now that we're rebooting let's go back into the bios
okay so now in the bios we'll go over to boot okay and now you'll notice there's two
buddha options there's a windows boot manager and then also a generic flash
disk generic flash disk is where the thumb drive well we have the windows 10 install on
windows boot manager is how windows creates the partition to recognize the uefi bios and now
you can boot off of that okay so it was going to do that anyway but i wanted to show you
just in case in your scenario it doesn't so we'll go ahead and hit f10 to save and exit
all right so then here select whatever region you're in then click yes
your keyboard layout and yes if you want to add a second one go ahead add layout but i'll skip
and then one sec while i connect to my network
then click next so at this point it's installing all of the drivers off of
the network since we just connected to it so this is the point that it's probably going
to disconnect video wise but i'll put it on the monitor okay so set up for personal use and next
and then go ahead and enter in your information here if you'd like but i'll do offline account
you can do whatever you like here but i'll do limited and then i'll just enter my name
i'm not going to enter a password so just next
and adjust this as you'd like and accept not now but if you like cortana go ahead and install it hi
oh yeah this might be the point the drivers disconnect
all right so we've just not only successfully installed hardware wise the m.2 drive
but i've also showed you how to install windows 10 on it but wait there's more if you already have
a machine that has windows 10 on it and you want a secondary nvme m.2 ssd as your hard drive
let me show you how to do that real quick so before we go into setting up the secondary drive
make sure to check out this video up above so that you know how to get the most performance out of
your system don't let windows install the drivers automatically for you they're not good okay so
come over here to file manager this pc notice we don't see that drive this drive is the usb
drive i just took it out real quick so now we have a separate drive you can see it's only 500 gigs
what happened to the other one well what we need to do is right click on the start button click
disk management then you're going to get this message sometimes you may not if you close
it haphazardly but if you get it you'll just click ok to select the gpt good partition table
and if you don't you'll look for it here you may have to scroll down a little bit then you'll right
click over here where you see that down arrow right click here then click initialize disk then
we'll have that same message we had before select gpt because the drive is large
okay okay so the drive still isn't there because we're unallocated so we'll right
click on this blank space underneath the black bar and click new simple volume
okay and then on the new simple volume wizard click next if you want to partition it you'll
lower this to whatever size you want but we'll go ahead and use the entire drive
and click next assign a drive letter so whatever drive you want it to be if you don't want it to be
the next drive up next then we'll give it a name so that you guys can see this pop up storage drive
during video and make sure to do a quick format if not it'll take forever and you'll want to choose
all these defaults next and then finish this will only take a while okay i was going to say
a few seconds but it literally took a second so we can close the disk management window
and i'll close this now coming back into file explorer this pc now we can see storage
drive during video what we named it and here's all the space and let's go ahead just copy stuff there
bam all right so now i've shown you how to install it as a secondary drive so
let's go ahead and discuss a few of the different types of ssds so this
wait this isn't an ssd well but this is a sata hard drive these are even if it's 10 000 rpm
they're incredibly slow because you're on a mechanical spinning disc
now we have a sata drive a 2.5 inch drive by the way that was 3.5 inch it is
sata as well you can see the sata data connector as well as the sata power connector now
this was the first iteration of ssds now these ran off of
a sata cable and that sounded cable will get let you get up to 560 megabytes per second
which is pretty fast especially this guy will let you get about 100 megs per second
but anyway so shortly after or after a while this was out then we had the first type of m.2
ssd notice there's two little slits back here and i'll put it on my hand so you can see it there's
two little connectors or two little openings right over there that's because this is a sata
ssd okay it still connects right over here but it's a sata ssd now some of these m.2s
the originals were pinned this way so if you for example pop this guy in you notice there's one
because of that plastic connector you wouldn't be able to install this but now as we've
evolved over time you're able to plug in the sata nvme ssd right into here as well as the
regular m.2 or nvme m.2 ssd so for example plug that guy right in there and then its older brother
will also plug in right over there now
depending on your motherboard that may not work so you definitely want to check
out your motherboard manual just to make sure that this guy works so the two separate keys
that's an n key you can see just like that there's only that one little split there
whereas the sata and ssd has the m key and the b key so i just wanted to explain that to you
real quick the two different types nvme or envy or not envy me the two different types so that you
could understand how that worked so thankfully we don't have to use these anymore these were
good back in the day but is gone so about 100 megs per second it was awesome back in the day
but it would take you a few minutes to get into windows
ssd this would only take you about a few seconds to get into windows 20 seconds or whatever
but we are about 560 megs per second
step into m.2 we were a little over a thousand megs per second m.2 sata though so we're going
through the sata bus and then while i have it in the drive or in the machine behind me
this is another sovereign drive pcie gen 4 we're at about 3 000 plus megabytes per second super
fast nvme is great not only because it's super fast but because it's awesome for incredibly large
file formats so video editing opening games loading games all that good stuff
it's just that much faster so i hope i can help you in this video
not only physically install the m.2 ssd but then install windows on it now and then also as
a secondary drive now if you still have one of these guys it's not bad much better than this
but if you don't know how to install it i'll go ahead and link up a video up above
as well as down below so you guys can check it out whenever you'd like so let me know if this
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