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Another great video :) although I'm far from a serious "tech guy" I am doing my first PC build for electronic music / home studio production, and I'm including a Samsung 970 Evo Plus with 1TB of storage as my main boot / daily apps drive plus a 6TB Western Digital Black HDD for main storage. I know "just enough" about computers, and have been alive for enough of the home PC generation, to just.. have my jaw drop at what we're able to put into our personal computers these days and how rapidly it has all evolved. Imagine NASA of the 1960s seeing these components we have! Just think, the entire US government's best computers, backed by millions and millions of federal funding, probably had less power than a few off-the-shelf components we can all buy for under $1000 and have delivered in 24 hours by Amazon Prime - with RU-vid videos on high speed internet delivered for FREE to teach us how to put everything together. We truly live in an incredible, amazing time. Hope everyone reading this comment takes a moment to appreciate it :)
Great video, thanks! It's worth pointing out that the normal ssd drives are mostly empty, and have the same sized chips as in the M.2 drives, it's just the form factor that is different, and they have the advantage of an extra layer of protection from dust and accidental damage. The transfer speeds for M.2 can be much faster when using PCIe over SATA, depending on motherboard support.
i did a TON of reasearch before buying an m.2 and i still learned a lot from this video! i went directly from a 7200rpm HDD to a gen 3x4 m.2 and on my first boot up it blew my effing mind! i kept hitting restart just to marvel at the speed. now i just have to wait for the tech to advance a little more so that 1TB sata SSD prices begin to dip so i can transfer all of my games and other files onto one (of course by the time i will be able to afford that the tech will be so much better and i will feel like im lagging behind again...)
I remember when switching from a floppy disk to a hard disk sped up boot times too. Don't worry, software bloat and inefficient compilers will eventually slow things down again. What gives me some wry amusement is that fact that while operating systems now take up several gigabytes of disk space their error messages are as meaningless as ever to the actual user.
Wanna see something that'll REALLY blow your mind? I put two SATA III SSDs in my computer in a striped raid configuration. The thing boots so fast that I never see the Windows start screen unless it's applying updates.
@@PrinceAlberts Ooooo, now repeat that exercise with two PCIe NVMe SSDs (using a RAID controller that would allow the OS to boot from the RAID). I once designed a boot controller for a Nokia transceiver that reduced its boot time from 40 seconds down to 30 milliseconds (including full RAM tests). I had to include a "Reset Occurred" status in the logging else it would reboot so fast no one would notice.
God!!! so clean & clear ExplainingComputers. Thank you. Wish you were my maths & science teacher. So that I could have passed with better marks, which would have enable me for better job & buy a M.2 Nvme 2TB.
Great, informative video. I did not understand that there were PCIE and SATA M.2 hard drives. I learned something new today that I'll use for a long time in the future. And as another user said, it's nice that you do a straight-forward video, no stupid music or other BS.
Strewth! I remember when I found a guy locally producing circuit boards for adding a massive new-tech 10 MEG hard drive to my then Z80 computer (initially Tape Storage). That was a real hoot back in those days... what, wow, 10 meg, jeez. Now I read this excellent presentation about current trends and hardware and will never stop being in awe of the speed of tech change these days. Boxes are becoming yesterdays hardware before one gets them out of the shop. Thank you for passing on the knowledge.
Izzie boot times aren't quicker on m.2 versus 2.5" SSD. the improvement has to do with initialization optimization included with newer UEFI. Using full UEFI mode with Windows 8.1/10 (or any supported O/S) is what helps.
I've been wanting to upgrade my laptop's SSD drive since it has a free M.2 slot, but was really confused about different interfaces. This video clears up a lot for me. Thank you
I see so much rubbish on RU-vid but this is a really good video. Explained by someone in English that clearly knows what they are talking about. Well done, and keep up the good work Chris.
Small note this video missed which is still true even today is that not all PCIe SSD's they come in both 2 and 4 lane versions the former is only 16 Gb/s (2 lanes * 8 Gb/s/lane) also some motherboards that have multiple M.2 slots wont support 32 Gb/s if all of them are used or will only do so if certain PCIexpress slots are not used etc so do check both your drive and motherboard specs to be sure.
Another brilliant video. I am getting a lap top with M.2 PCIe and was told it was faster than SATA but didn't know why, and now I do now. Thank you. Fascinating thoughts also about the future of PCs, etc.
Chris Thank you for the explanation of the M.2. This answers many questions, especially about the bus and speed changes. The evolution of computers as you know will be much about the end of the moving disk drive. This fills in many blanks I had in fully understanding how that technology will work. Thank you, sir, for all you do! Rich
Even though I already know what all of the devices you talk about are, their tech specs, advantages, disadvantages and optimal use cases; I really still enjoy your videos. Additionally, unlike many other channels, the people that follow you seem to be much nicer and more civil to each other. Thank you for the videos. :-D
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Finally! The very first part of M.2 Innovation. I am so much excited Sir for the next part which hopefully subject for OS Installation M.2 SSD (SATA or NVMe). This OS Installation on M.2 SSD is the top problem for PC Builder right now. You that you could crack it Sir any time sooner. Thank you very much giving your attention in M.2 SSD. "The future of computing".
Spot on, no BS and clear concise information. Whoever gave a thumbs down for this video must be off dragging their knuckles as they go look for banana's!
What is apparent is that motherboards are absorbing components that start off as external expansions. Sound used to be on a card. Disk drive interfaces, serial ports - everything used to be on a card. Nowdays some CPU's don't even require a dedicated videocard. With M.2 hard drives became an "on-board" component.
Thanks Chris!! The video explained a lot. Are M.2 SSDs able to RAID 0? Would that require a mother board with 2 M.2 slots? Do you recommend RAID 0 to run OS?
Just found your channel, I work in IT, and I can say I absolutely love the format of your videos, you explain things clearly and in perfect detail, keep up the great work!
Thank you very much. Listened carefull for 6:16 minutes, when you git to physical mounting SATA 2280, I was 5" from my 15" monitor. It's not exactly intuitive whether it's green side up or not. My first assembly, Raspberry Pi mini Tower Desktop Ubuntu Mat`e, of any computer in 20 years. Was surprised the image of Ubuntu Mat`e didn't recognize git from got. I'm at my wit's end. Disk Mounting widgit says nothing to mount. Neither fdisk -l, nor gParted showed an installed SSD.🥴 That upward spring of SATA board is a sure tell tale sign its mounted right. I didn't just get what I came for and leave, I stayed for the entire show. Highly agree on the advancements the M.2 form factor, it is a game changer. Very educational thoughout.' Purchased a UPS, for Pi 4B 4GB, with 4000mA Lithium battery. It and replacement were returned to sender, "not as described", they flat didn't work. 2nd one powered the Pi4 less than an hour and quit, while on a charger. Just killing the power is a No No with Pi as it is constantly accessing micro SDHC; and, hence my need for UPS. Product mini-box carried a label. A specific printed attribute was the presence on the back of the unit a swatch of nano material. Is that size enough to make a pointed notation of. My eyes must have changed to bionic; I could see that shiny sheen and simply couldn't help myself, while pulling that thin film off the double sided tape .
OMG I learn so much from your excellent videos. There was I naively thinking M.2 were automatically several times faster than their drive bay SSD cousins. I think I know what to look out for, now. Thank you again. The moral of the story has to be to check EC before buying anything!
Great to hear this. So many people fall into the trap of not realizing that there are SATA M.2 SSDs, and PCIe (NVMe) drives in other form-factors. You may like my updated video here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kvHUVcgo8xY.html
Just re-watched this video in October 2018. With the recent release of the x86-64 LattePanda Alpha (as well as the previous model) and the UDOO units, it's very interesting to see that the "regular" PCs and the SBCs seem to be converging. Now that both can use PCIe-based m.2 drives, that part of the solution seems to be in place.
Thanks for very informative point, espechially at 7 minutes into video. So many people goes installing M2 SSD and wonder why their hdd stop working - this is why.
A lot of the gammers are going for the SSD drives that plug into the PCIe Gen3 x4 motherboard slots like the Intel SSD 750 Series. Their read and write speeds look to be quicker than a lot of the M.2 drives.
I've been using a Samsung 950 Pro NVME PCIe M.2 SSD. I love it. Very fast boot and load times. I paired it with a Intel i7-6700k. The good news is that AMD Ryzen CPUs will be supporting M.2 so I think many more people will be adapting the M.2 standard within the next few years.
Sigh, Storage and drives have progressed a long way since I was first introduced to the newest kid on the block back in the dark ages (1979), a 5"full height 5Mb Winchester HDD :-D and this video shows that storage is / has also gone the same way as Moore's Law. Great work with the channel.
Great overview of the M.2 drives and a good job as always. I did miss the un-boxing though, that's always my favorite part. I just built a new system over the holidays with a Samsung 850 EVO M.2 and it was just as easy as you showed in your video. I've got Linux Mint loaded on it as my primary daily driver and love how easy and fast this build was compared to others I've done over the years.
It is ridiculous the alphabet soup computer users still have to endure. _Back in my day_, users had to concern themselves with which ATAPI IDE HDD to get, and in my time anything more than 120GB was enterprise-grade. Nowdays users have to concern themselves with M.2 or U.2, PCIe or SATA, and whether it has NVMe capability. So in the future a top-tier media device would be a U.2 PCIe NVMe SSD. Later on it might be referred to as a U.2 PCIe 5.0 NVMe 2.0 SSD because everything gets revised and upgraded every so often. I mean, I understand what all the magical acronyms mean, but you'd think the nerds behind this guff would figure out a more clever naming schema that doesn't look like some password to your personal affects.
Worse yet were when the largest hard drive was 1GB, everyone that bought one said oh that will last me forever now you can't even get a computer setup with 1GB of hard disc space LOL. I have a desktop computer hard drive that is 120MB, its a 3.5" drive and although it still works people would throw the computer because it takes forever to get software to load in that old drive combined with the slow processor speed of that old machine LOL.
WTF?? U.2 PCIe 5.0 NVMe 2.0 SSD, what tha hell is NVMe, I missed that whatever it is, and I thought I was keeping up with the PC evolution at a steady pace.... holy crap u need to be a robot to keep up with computers these days. Damnit!
Non-volatile memory express might be in revision 3 by the time personal computer interface express moves on from 4.0 to 5.0; PCIe at the moment is in its fourth major revision. But basically speaking, NVMe is a standard for direct attachment of media to the PCI bus. If you have an NVMe-capable M.2 or U.2 device, it'll communicate over PCI, and if not, it'll use SATA instead. If the motherboard isn't NVMe-capable at all, you're forced to use adapters like the ASUS RevoDrive, or a dedicated PCIe-attached solution (which would also allow you to add more NVMe drives to an NVMe board if they use M.2) but that doesn't mean you'll magically gain all the benefit NVMe has to offer because you won't be able to boot off the damn thing; you're still limited to 6GB / s for your OS. The only way to make that work without drastic VM solutions like using Win10 Pro's Windows On-The-Go or a Linux system is to move a lot of your boot files over to PCI-attached or PCI-communicated storage, but the system still boots from SATA and the bother of symlinking every little bit of the system outside of Windows might not even provide you with the full benefit of NVMe-capable hardware.
Not about this video but about your channel. I am a bit annoyed that your channel is so interesting. I never get time to watch other channels, because I keep finding an interesting video on yours - Thank you ;-)
Well, we've come a long way in a relatively short time! Not that long ago some of us had to buy "full towers" to fit enough drives in which may have included multiple HDDs, two sizes of FDD, maybe a Zip or MO drive and a CD/DVD drive, now we need none but several forms of solid state storage, some removable. I'm feeling old!
I built my first new computer in 5 years back in December and this video made a very confusing topic, with form factors and bus differences, very understandable. So understandable that I quickly canceled my ordered of a Crucial SATA m.2 and ordered an nvme drive instead after watching it
Video states we'll eventually have multi-terrabyte M.2 SSDs. We already have those. Samsung 960 Pro, which is the fastest consumer SSD right now is available in 2TB size in the 2280 M.2 form factor. It was released in September.
Like your videos.. straight to the point, without bullshit, some head up and asking the like and sub after the video. you sir are true gentelman and scholar.
Thank you * SO MUCH * for going at a reasonable pace, and for adding graphics! With all the other videos I watched on M.2 solid state drives, it's just a guy sitting on an office chair, talking a blue streak, with lots of abbreviations that he is too clueless to explain. What I don't get: I've read several articles about these SATA generation 3 drives that say the speed is: 6 gigabytes per second, and 600 megabytes per second. For example, the next line is from Wikipedia: SATA revision 3.0 (6 Gbit/s, 600 MB/s, Serial ATA-600) It can't be both! What is happening here? And where do you get those nice graphics? Or how do you make those nice graphics? Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
SATA 3.0 has a maximum theoretical speed of 6 gigabits per second (6 Gb/s), which is the same as 750 Megabytes per second (MB/s). However, this is the raw bit rate, and some of this is used in the communications protocol used to verify data as it is transferred, which is why the actual maximum theoretical transfer speed comes out at 600 MB/s. So 6 GB/s raw = 600 MB/s max actual are both correct. I do indeed make all of the graphics in my videos myself. All 3D work is done in LightWave, 2D in Photoshop or Illustrator, and compositing elements together in After Effects. Happy Thanks Giving. :)
@@ExplainingComputers Thank you much. That was so confusing, and none of the articles I read bothered to explain why there were 2 very different numbers for what looked to be the same transfer rate.
Referring to 3:11, unfortunately this looks rather like the AGP display card nightmare all over again, where you could (and frequently did!) have an AGP card that wouldn't fit an AGP slot because the keyways were different. It's said that if you wait long enough, bad ideas will always resurface.
Big thanks for the informative video ... Just decided to build a portable video editing PC ... really looking into the M.2 or NVME M.2 SSD for the small form factor ...
You explained about the SATA M.2 drives. How do these differ from the PCIe M.2 drives? Are they physically installed the same way? If so, what happens if you put the wrong kind into the M.2 slot? (I loved how you explained the PCIe expansion slots)
They are indeed physically installed in the same way, but the keys on the slot should prevent you putting the wrong type of M.2 device into the wrong type of slot.
@@ExplainingComputers Thank you for your clear, concise, and QUICK response. :D Now all I have to do is figure out what kind my pre-built computer's MB has.
Well, without that "drives" chunk for external facing of still-internal drives, then we'd still be missing cool things like additional flash storage slots/jacks and Blu-ray drives.
