Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2

[eye2eyespy]

I would like to migrate my windows os to the Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2.

I have read that there may some issues because of capability. Can anyone recommend a migration/cloning tool that can accomplish this with no issue.

https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-Internal-Extreme-Performance-SB-ROCKET-NVMe4-1TB/dp/B07TLYWMYW/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

Any additional information will be useful.

Many thanks!

 

[neeyik]

How to Clone your Disk | Sabrent

www.sabrent.com

 

[eye2eyespy]

Got it. What does this mean?

A newly released Sabrent utility enables users to re-format the Rocket drive and choose the sector size of their liking, either 512-bytes or 4K bytes.

 

[neeyik]

As you are going to migrate the contents from one storage drive to another, it’s best that the sector sizes are the same. If the current one is 512 bytes then format the SSD to the same; hopefully, it’s at the usual 4 kB.

 

[eye2eyespy]

Here is my system info:

C:\windows\system32>fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo c:
NTFS Volume Serial Number : 0xec70ea4770ea185a
NTFS Version : 3.1
LFS Version : 2.0
Total Sectors : 498,583,551 (237.7 GB)
Total Clusters : 62,322,943 (237.7 GB)
Free Clusters : 42,635,244 (162.6 GB)
Total Reserved Clusters : 1,994,349 ( 7.6 GB)
Reserved For Storage Reserve : 1,981,521 ( 7.6 GB)
Bytes Per Sector : 512
Bytes Per Physical Sector : 4096
Bytes Per Cluster : 4096
Bytes Per FileRecord Segment : 1024
Clusters Per FileRecord Segment : 0
Mft Valid Data Length : 335.25 MB
Mft Start Lcn : 0x00000000000c0000
Mft2 Start Lcn : 0x0000000000000002
Mft Zone Start : 0x0000000000a31a20
Mft Zone End : 0x0000000000a3e240
MFT Zone Size : 200.13 MB
Max Device Trim Extent Count : 256
Max Device Trim Byte Count : 0xffffffff
Max Volume Trim Extent Count : 62
Max Volume Trim Byte Count : 0x40000000
Resource Manager Identifier : 5FA06675-9995-11E9-9D6A-B4B686D0C469

 

[TheDevopsGuy]

Here is my system info:

C:\windows\system32>fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo c:
NTFS Volume Serial Number : 0xec70ea4770ea185a
NTFS Version : 3.1
LFS Version : 2.0
Total Sectors : 498,583,551 (237.7 GB)
Total Clusters : 62,322,943 (237.7 GB)
Free Clusters : 42,635,244 (162.6 GB)
Total Reserved Clusters : 1,994,349 ( 7.6 GB)
Reserved For Storage Reserve : 1,981,521 ( 7.6 GB)
Bytes Per Sector : 512
Bytes Per Physical Sector : 4096
Bytes Per Cluster : 4096
Bytes Per FileRecord Segment : 1024
Clusters Per FileRecord Segment : 0
Mft Valid Data Length : 335.25 MB
Mft Start Lcn : 0x00000000000c0000
Mft2 Start Lcn : 0x0000000000000002
Mft Zone Start : 0x0000000000a31a20
Mft Zone End : 0x0000000000a3e240
MFT Zone Size : 200.13 MB
Max Device Trim Extent Count : 256
Max Device Trim Byte Count : 0xffffffff
Max Volume Trim Extent Count : 62
Max Volume Trim Byte Count : 0x40000000
Resource Manager Identifier : 5FA06675-9995-11E9-9D6A-B4B686D0C469

Assuming your C: Drive is your current boot disk this info is for the current hard disk/ssd youre using. The matching information would be on the new ssd.

Once you connect the ssd you would need to go in disk managment and initialize it/turn it online. You might need to create the partition with the matching sectors specified above.

Let us know if you manage with the provided link.

 

[neeyik]

Bytes Per Sector : 512
Bytes Per Physical Sector : 4096
Bytes Per Cluster : 4096

This suggests that your current hard drive is using the 512e Advanced Format - I.e. it's formatted with 4 kB sectors, but the hdd itself processes them as if they were 512 bytes sectors. Double-check the hdd's sector format by doing the following:

(1) Press Win key + R to bring up the Run window
(2) Enter msinfo32
(3) Choose System Summary > Components > Storage > Disks
(4) Check what it says about your current hdd in the part labelled Bytes/Sector

Whatever value it says (512 or 4096/4k), your new SSD must be formatted to the same value.

 

[eye2eyespy]

This is my primary booth/c: drive.
It's a PCIE NVME M.2

Description Disk drive
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model KBG30ZMV256G TOSHIBA
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed hard disk
Partitions 3
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 0
SCSI Target ID 0
Sectors/Track 63
Size 238.47 GB (256,052,966,400 bytes)
Total Cylinders 31,130
Total Sectors 500,103,450
Total Tracks 7,938,150
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition Disk #0, Partition #0
Partition Size 260.00 MB (272,629,760 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 1,048,576 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #1
Partition Size 237.74 GB (255,274,778,624 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 290,455,552 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #2
Partition Size 466.00 MB (488,636,416 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 255,565,234,176 bytes