Help please .... memory advice.

[BuckarooUK]

Folks,

 

I'm out of my depth. I need some advice .

 

I own a PC which has an M2 250Gb memory chip on the motherboard and an additional 1Tb, 2.5" SSD drive. Windows was pre-installed . It's also got 16gb ramm.

 

I discovered DCS during the lockdown, but a few modules and maps later and my 250Gb chip is full (Windows, DCS, etc ). I tried re-installing DCS on the slower 2.5" SSD but the game loading time is massively increased.

 

I've therefore decided to replace the M2 250Gb with at least one of 1Tb or larger. But my issue is, how do I do so when windows and all my drivers are pre-installed on the 250Gb one? I'll loose everything, the minute I remove the chip.

 

Can anyone suggest how I can safely swap them ?

 

Thanks

[hornblower793]

Folks,

 

 

 

I'm out of my depth. I need some advice .

 

 

 

I own a PC which has an M2 250Gb memory chip on the motherboard and an additional 1Tb, 2.5" SSD drive. Windows was pre-installed . It's also got 16gb ramm.

 

 

 

I discovered DCS during the lockdown, but a few modules and maps later and my 250Gb chip is full (Windows, DCS, etc ). I tried re-installing DCS on the slower 2.5" SSD but the game loading time is massively increased.

 

 

 

I've therefore decided to replace the M2 250Gb with at least one of 1Tb or larger. But my issue is, how do I do so when windows and all my drivers are pre-installed on the 250Gb one? I'll loose everything, the minute I remove the chip.

 

 

 

Can anyone suggest how I can safely swap them ?

 

 

 

Thanks

Does the motherboard have a second M2 slot?

 

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[BuckarooUK]

Does the motherboard have a second M2 slot?

 

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Unfortunately not. I wish it did !

[Supmua]

Buy NVME to SATA adapter for the new NVME drive so you can access it.

Clone your Windows hard drive to that one.

Swap the primary hard drive.

[Eaglewings]

Glad to see this thread.

Planning to do a similar thing soon myself.

In my case I want to put dcs installation on a dedicated 500g Nvme memory and windows os stays in the old SSD sata drive.

I wondering if it matters if both windows os and dcs installation are on the same drive.

 

Better put, will I be having any drawback if os is in sata SSD and dcs in nvme?

[hornblower793]

Glad to see this thread.

Planning to do a similar thing soon myself.

In my case I want to put dcs installation on a dedicated 500g Nvme memory and windows os stays in the old SSD sata drive.

I wondering if it matters if both windows os and dcs installation are on the same drive.

 

Better put, will I be having any drawback if os is in sata SSD and dcs in nvme?

There should be no issue - mine is the other way round with Windows on the NVMe and DCS on the sata SSD and it works fine. Considering getting a second NVMe for DCS

 

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[Eaglewings]

There should be no issue - mine is the other way round with Windows on the NVMe and DCS on the sata SSD and it works fine. Considering getting a second NVMe for DCS

 

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Thanks

[marcost]

To OP - Presuming this is a Desktop not a laptop:

 

In addition to the good suggestions above, and if you have a spare PCIe slot, you may be able to get a PCIe M2 adapter card.

 

You can then put your new M2 drive on it (get 500gb not 1tb if you want to save money), move DCS onto that and leave the OS on the original M2.

 

You may need to enable the PCIe slot for M2 in the motherboard BIOS.

 

Check that the motherboard supports this before you buy! Check that there are no speed limitations as well.

 

Regards,

 

Mac

Edited June 29, 2020 by marcost