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hey everyone Ibraheim with hardware connects and a few months back we teamed up with Samsung to bring you guys a guide on nvme MDOT - SSDs and how one can significantly improve your creative workflow especially if you're coming from a slower spinning hard drive and the results were phenomenal in fact the upgrade process only took roughly 10 minutes because we were using the 960 process D and we're cloning the existing hard drive or the existing data on the hard drive - the 960 process D and it was you know smooth super smooth no hiccups or what not if you should learn more about that you can check it out right over here but today we're performing the exact same process on a notebook and that can get a little tricky sometimes depending on how oh mmm their warranty policy remember if your laptop is still under warranty I would highly recommend you check their warranty guidelines in terms of user upgrade ability most notebooks come with a warranty void if remote sticker but either way I would still you know make sure that you're allowed to do this before even running into any warrant issues down the road another key factor to consider is compatibility if you're planning on upgrading at two or three year old notebook it might not support an nvme drive in fact it might not even come with an m2 slot to support the drive in that case upgrading to a SATA base SSD might be worth taking a look at since it features the exact same interface as a spinning hard drive plus if you find an extra two and a half inch drive bay within the notebook you can convert that hard drive to just manage your data and make the SSD or primary boot drive most modern laptops do come with an m2 slot but that doesn't automatically translate into nvme support because it might only end up supporting and m dot 2 SATA base SSDs rather than nvme SSDs so once again I would make sure to go through your OEM website a double check compatibility and then proceed towards you know getting one of these insanely fast drives now for the purpose of this video I'll be using the eurocom q 5 gaming laptop because it doesn't come with any warranty restrictions in terms of upgrade ability I should also mention that if you're buying a notebook look towards configuring it with a hard drive rather than an nvme SSD but also make sure that it comes with an nvme capable slot this could save you a lot of money from the usual system integrator markup and you can later on by the nvme SSD from a retail channel and graded on your own it's not rocket science folks but also make sure to check the warranty guidelines I talked about earlier in this case the q6 comes with a standard two and half inch hard drive and a free and dr. slot that supports nvme drives now if you're looking to upgrade to a SATA based SSD like this Samsung 850 Pro and if there aren't any extra two and a half inch drive bays within the notebook you can pick up a USB 3.0 two SATA hard drive adapter and clone the SSD before replacing the existing hard drive or you could pick up this blazing-fast 960 pro nvme SSD you just pop it inside the notebook clone the drive using Samsung's data migration software and voila you have an insanely fast boot drive for your applications and you can set the hard drive to just manage your data switching over to the software side there are two ways that you can install windows on the SSD the first and easiest option is cloning your existing hard drive to the SSD and that can be done through Samsung's data migration suffer it's free to download you just have to make sure that you've installed a Samsung based SSD the process is fairly simple Samsung has done a really good job of the UI so for some users won't have a problem spotting things and as you can see I chose my source disk and then the target disc and proceeded with the cloning process the second way to approaching this is performing a clean install of Windows using a USB Drive all you have to do is download the Windows 10 installation media tool while you're using the hard drive follow the steps and boot into the USB and perform a clean install of Windows on to your new SSD alright so let's talk about performance improvements and just so you're aware I ran the same number of tests on the 960 Pro nvme SSD and the 850 Pro SATA based SSD and the stock spinning hard drive so how did the drives do well all I can say is that both the SATA and nvme SSDs were incredibly faster than the hard drive starting with the cold boot test a stock drive took roughly 30 seconds to boot into Windows while the nvme SSD took roughly 14 seconds so that's half the time when compared to the hard drive now if you're a creative professional upgrading to the 960 pro nvme SSD or even the 850 proceeded base SSD might be money well spent here's why I did a quick test loading up a Photoshop project that I worked on recently and the stock hard drive took two minutes to complete that task whereas the 960 pro took 10 seconds to get to the work and so did the 850 pro as well same story goes for Premiere Pro users both SSDs blaze through loading up projects with the 960 Pro taking the lead but man that stock hard drive is a serious bottleneck plus that's a lot of time saved if you're constantly working on client projects and that requires deadlines I can guarantee you upgrading to an SSD will make a world of difference my next test involves zipping a 30 gigabyte folder using WinRAR this folder contains a ton of small files so it's a great way to test random read and write performance on the SSDs and as you can see the results really do speak for themselves the 960 Pro takes the lead by just a few minutes when compared to the 850 Pro SSD but the stock drive is at least 11 minutes behind to complete that task but what about gaming well I was excited to test Ghost Recon because for one it's in graphically intensive title and loading up a game along with missions take a chunk of time so it's a great way to test each drivers read performance I started with the discovering files test where the drive fetches and validates game files and as you can see the 960 pro takes the lead here by 3 minutes when compared to the 850 Pro andthat's tanks to the insanely fast 3.5 gigabytes per second theoretical read speeds but check out that stock hard drive it took about 30 minutes to complete the validations so imagine performing the same tasks with your larger Steam library the performance improvements would be significant moving on to the initial game launch I threw another curveball at this test by running the same compression scenario in the background and the 960 pro was only four seconds faster than the 850 pro but the stock drive took way more than four minutes to get to the game loading of a mission followed the same trend while there is a significant difference between the 960 Pro nvme SSD and the 850 proceeded base SSD the stock HDD doesn't even come closer to those fast drives well there you guys have it a quick user guide on how to replace your existing hard drive with an SSD you want an nvme pace SSD remember I would highly recommend checking your warranty guidelines before um proceeding with any of these but if there is a green signal if you're good to go in that department there are two options you could either go for a SATA base SSD which is a lot more cheaper than going with an nvme base drive but if you really want the absolute in terms of performance say if you're working with 4k raw files when if you're a video editor I think the 960 Pro will come in really handy because the theoretical read and write performance on this guy is a lot I mean a lot faster than this SATA base SSD which is the Samsung 850 Pro so I'd love to hear your thoughts on the results would you consider upgrading to a SATA base this is D or an nvme SSD on your notebook let us know in the comments down below huge shout out to Samsung for sponsoring this video and of course providing us with these drives I meet with Harbach connects thank you so much for watching and we'll see you in the next one