Unless you're certain the PCIe to NVMe adapter supports being used as a boot device, you're likely better off simply installing a 2.5" SATA SSD in place of the hard drive.
While NVMe drives are faster than SATA, the desktop you have is headed into its teenage years -- the boost from a SATA drive will be appreciable, and the NVMe drive almost certainly will not run at its full speed, or rather - will wind up shifting the system bottleneck to the CPU and RAM.
Will this adapter work in our old Inspiron 560? I'm reasonably sure it will but, not positive, looking for a more experienced take on the matter. At this point, it's mainly my wife's computer, I know she gets aggravated with how it seems to be bogging down more and more on the old HDD and whenever I get near it it seems painfully slow compared to my laptop, so I'd like to update it for her. Would one of these drives be a decent fit with that older system? Can't remember which processor it has but, I do know that it has 8GB of RAM and is maxed out there.
She doesn't do anything that requires a lot of drive space or incredible speeds but, it would be nice to get things working a little better for her. Any input on the best fit for this system would be greatly appreciated.
Oops, didn't notice that, saw Inspirin and figured I was good. Probably posted my laptop stuff in the wrong place too. I'm obviously new to this particular forum.
I bought that exact drive adapter, looks like you put me onto the best possible choice, thank you.
I went with another MX500 from Crucial, seems like a great drive, only a 1TB for this one though. Thinking I'm going to leave the old HDD in the machine for extra storage space and a spot to back up her massive photo collection. I'd like to leave Windows installed as a backup rather than formatting it, if I simply pull that main SATA cable from it and plug the new drive in there and the old one to another cable, will that suffice to make the SSD the "C" drive?
Waiting on a new DVD drive before I get into it. Couldn't believe how difficult it was to find a drive that was a proper fit for the machine, found one though.
Thinking I'm going to leave the old HDD in the machine for extra storage space and a spot to back up her massive photo collection. I'd like to leave Windows installed as a backup rather than formatting it, if I simply pull that main SATA cable from it and plug the new drive in there and the old one to another cable, will that suffice to make the SSD the "C" drive?
I am not sure simply swapping is going to work. It's been awhile since I had a PC with two hard drives.
Are you planning on cloning the HDD to the SSD?
If you are, I would clone.
Power off. Disconnect HDD.
Power on with just the SSD. Make sure everything works.
Yeah, I already cloned the drive onto the new SSD. I was really hoping to avoid having to reconnect more than the one time. With my disability, I can't do the disconnect/reconnect where the tower sits, the wife is terrible with that stuff and won't want to do it more than once. I'll probably just format the HDD before taking it apart and straight up use it as backup storage. I have a backup copy of Windows if it's needed for some unforeseen reason down the road. I simply thought it'd be easier to have that drive still ready to go if something crazy happened but, I'm sure that Crucial SSD will last just fine for us. The original HDD hasn't even been shut down more than a dozen times in the last 10-12 years and testing it shows that it's still a healthy drive. If this new one is half that good I'll be happy.
It's been quite some time since I've messed around with that too. I was thinking that the OS SATA was a dedicated line for "C" drive but, I could definitely be way off on that.
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May 8th, 2022 11:00
Unless you're certain the PCIe to NVMe adapter supports being used as a boot device, you're likely better off simply installing a 2.5" SATA SSD in place of the hard drive.
While NVMe drives are faster than SATA, the desktop you have is headed into its teenage years -- the boost from a SATA drive will be appreciable, and the NVMe drive almost certainly will not run at its full speed, or rather - will wind up shifting the system bottleneck to the CPU and RAM.
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May 8th, 2022 12:00
I would not spend the money on that.
Buy this Orioco 3.5" to 2.5" SATA adapter. https://www.amazon.com/ORICO-Adapter-Mounting-Bracket-Interface/dp/B01LZWX6PD
I bought it when I replaced the 3.5" hard drive in my desktop PC with a 2.5" SSD.
By the way, you posted in the Inspiron laptop forum while the 560 is a desktop
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May 8th, 2022 13:00
Makes sense, thank you.
Papa Indica
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May 8th, 2022 14:00
Thanks man, that's probably what I'm going to do.
Oops, didn't notice that, saw Inspirin and figured I was good. Probably posted my laptop stuff in the wrong place too. I'm obviously new to this particular forum.
Papa Indica
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May 14th, 2022 10:00
I bought that exact drive adapter, looks like you put me onto the best possible choice, thank you.
I went with another MX500 from Crucial, seems like a great drive, only a 1TB for this one though. Thinking I'm going to leave the old HDD in the machine for extra storage space and a spot to back up her massive photo collection. I'd like to leave Windows installed as a backup rather than formatting it, if I simply pull that main SATA cable from it and plug the new drive in there and the old one to another cable, will that suffice to make the SSD the "C" drive?
Waiting on a new DVD drive before I get into it. Couldn't believe how difficult it was to find a drive that was a proper fit for the machine, found one though.
nyc10036
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May 14th, 2022 16:00
I am not sure simply swapping is going to work. It's been awhile since I had a PC with two hard drives.
Are you planning on cloning the HDD to the SSD?
If you are, I would clone.
Power off. Disconnect HDD.
Power on with just the SSD. Make sure everything works.
Power off. Connect HDD.
Power on both both and see if everything works.
Papa Indica
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May 14th, 2022 21:00
Yeah, I already cloned the drive onto the new SSD. I was really hoping to avoid having to reconnect more than the one time. With my disability, I can't do the disconnect/reconnect where the tower sits, the wife is terrible with that stuff and won't want to do it more than once. I'll probably just format the HDD before taking it apart and straight up use it as backup storage. I have a backup copy of Windows if it's needed for some unforeseen reason down the road. I simply thought it'd be easier to have that drive still ready to go if something crazy happened but, I'm sure that Crucial SSD will last just fine for us. The original HDD hasn't even been shut down more than a dozen times in the last 10-12 years and testing it shows that it's still a healthy drive. If this new one is half that good I'll be happy.
It's been quite some time since I've messed around with that too. I was thinking that the OS SATA was a dedicated line for "C" drive but, I could definitely be way off on that.