Hi guys,
This is probably an old thread but I did find it useful when deciding to upgrade my G501VW-FY031T. It originally came with 128 GB M.2 (SATA) SSD and 1 TB mechanical drive.
I took the plunge based on this thread to upgraded it to 1 TB NVMe + 2 TB SATA SSD. I used to following parts:
- Kingston A2000 1TB M.2 (2280) PCIe NVMe SSD (Model# SA2000M8/1000G)
- Samsung 870 QVO 2TB 2.5" SATA (Model# MZ-77Q2T0BW)
I'm certain the brand of the NVMe drive doesn't matter; I bought the mid-range version. You can go with any NVMe drive provided that it is the 2280 form factor.
You'll also need to following tools/gadgets
- T5 Trox driver
- PH0 Phillips driver
- Orico TCM2-C3 NVMe M.2 SSD (Model# TCM2-C3-SV)
- Orico 2588US3-BK 2.5" USB 3.0 to SATA Hard Drive Enclosure
Any USB3.0 SATA enclosure will work but pay special attention to the NVMe enclosure. You need the M.2 enclosure that supports the M-key! This sounds confusing but the M.2 form factor has two variant the SATA variant (B + M-key) and the NVMe variant which is only comes in the M-key. I almost bought the wrong version.
Once, you've got all of that. Use the AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition (free version) to clone your data over. This saves a lot of hassle and once you replaced your new drives in your laptop, it'll boot without any issues or messing with the BIOS. Other cloning software gives me the BSoD (Inaccessible boot drive). There's a command line you can type in to fix it (
https://faststorage.eu/how-to-clone-windows-10-from-sata-ssd-to-m-2-ssd-fix-inaccessible-boot-device...) but I'd suggest start directly with AOMEI.
In terms of benchmarking, I get the following speeds using Samsung Magician.
NVMe - Read: 2044 MB/s, Write: 1978 MB/s
SATA* - Read: 3041 MB/s, Write: 2241 MB/s (*This is with the 'Rapid Mode' enabled for the Samsung drive using Samsung Magician software, if you disable this mode then it is the standard SSD SATA speed of approx. 500 MB/s read/write).
Hope this helps!