Nova and S.2's
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Bhuna50
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As mentioned in your thread: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/threads/nova-memory-upgrade.79424/ if you go to your account page on PCS and go to the upgrade section, it should give you an idea of what you can add to your machine - ie it would show a spare M2 slot if there is one and enable you to see a dropdown box on what PCS offer - its up to you if you then source this elsewhere or purchase via PCS.
FerrariVie
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Well, not sure if it was already sorted out at this moment, but the Nova used to have issues with 2 NVME SSD's, especially when at least one of them was Samsung. If you search around the forum you will find some old threads (back in October/November I think) with people complaining about this issue.
To be honest, I would only buy a new M.2 drive if you could return it for free in case of incompatibilities or, as @andjef796 suggested, buy with PCS... even if the latter might be slightly more expensive, they are obliged to make it work for you since you bought both storage and laptop with them.
FerrariVie
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These are the posts that I was talking about:
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But don't remember seeing any complaints about it since then, however I'm not sure how the problem would magically solve itself
. @Fish , please keep us updated here about what you ended up buying and if you had issues or not. I also plan to add another drive by the end of the year, so it would be great to have some updated info about this.
24 hours old NOVA laptop: 2nd M.2 Drive is not showing/working anymore.
I just received my NOVA laptop yesterday. Everything seemed fine yesterday evening but this morning the second M.2 Drive (1 TB Samsung EVO Plus) is not showing/working anymore. It's also not showing in DISK MANAGEMENT as well. Quite frustrating as this laptop is needed for an ongoing VFX...
Nova 2x M.2 port bandwidth
Wondering if anyone can confirm this about the Nova or if i'd have to contact support directly. Out of the two available M.2 ports, only one supports PCIe 3.0 and if i were to configure two, the second one would run via PCIe 2.0?
But don't remember seeing any complaints about it since then, however I'm not sure how the problem would magically solve itself
. @Fish , please keep us updated here about what you ended up buying and if you had issues or not. I also plan to add another drive by the end of the year, so it would be great to have some updated info about this.
SpyderTracks
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As I recall, PCS did acknowledge an issue with an NVME drive in the secondary slot and disabled it on the configurator, so you only got the option for SATA M2 drives as a secondary drive.These are the posts that I was talking about:
24 hours old NOVA laptop: 2nd M.2 Drive is not showing/working anymore.
I just received my NOVA laptop yesterday. Everything seemed fine yesterday evening but this morning the second M.2 Drive (1 TB Samsung EVO Plus) is not showing/working anymore. It's also not showing in DISK MANAGEMENT as well. Quite frustrating as this laptop is needed for an ongoing VFX...
Nova 2x M.2 port bandwidth
Wondering if anyone can confirm this about the Nova or if i'd have to contact support directly. Out of the two available M.2 ports, only one supports PCIe 3.0 and if i were to configure two, the second one would run via PCIe 2.0?
But don't remember seeing any complaints about it since then, however I'm not sure how the problem would magically solve itself
FerrariVie
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I would just send support a message asking for compatibility issues before buying, just in case. This is going to help you even more in case you have issues when installing it.
Sadly a bit too late. I bought and fitted another 970 EVO, this time it's a 1TB. So my setup is an 500GB 970 EVO for system drive, 1TB Seagate HDD 5400rpm with 16GB of 2666MHz memory (2*8GB), and now this second 970 EVO.
The issue I was seeing was that the standard seagate was maxin' out at 100% on a regular basis. Fitting the second 970 EVO resolved the usage, and only had one blue screen yet still getting high memory usage and this is next on the upgrade list.
Thanks
Fish
The issue I was seeing was that the standard seagate was maxin' out at 100% on a regular basis. Fitting the second 970 EVO resolved the usage, and only had one blue screen yet still getting high memory usage and this is next on the upgrade list.
Thanks
Fish
FerrariVie
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16Gb of RAM is plenty for most usages, only exceptions would be rendering 3D or similar usages. For most other users (gaming included), 16Gb is more than enough. I wouldn't be upgrading that just yet, it's likely that your problem won't be solved and it will get high usage again. Could you please share with us which process is actually using such amounts of RAM? If you don't know, have a look at the windows task manager, sorting by memory and take a print screen of top processes, like below:
My work has changed direction and I've been using VMware workstation which is quite heavy on resources. This is why the extra memory and quicker storage is needed.
To top my evening off, I was trying to move the data from the 1TB 970 onto the standard HDD so I could remove it. Data transfer stopped and it's now crashed the standard HDD. Emails, video work, documents and plenty of other stuff all now lost! I cannot even reformat it from its current RAW configuration.
Off to open the bottle of gin before I launch this machine out the window!
Fish
To top my evening off, I was trying to move the data from the 1TB 970 onto the standard HDD so I could remove it. Data transfer stopped and it's now crashed the standard HDD. Emails, video work, documents and plenty of other stuff all now lost! I cannot even reformat it from its current RAW configuration.
Off to open the bottle of gin before I launch this machine out the window!
Fish
FerrariVie
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Then it makes sense more RAM
It's very likely that your HDD is not corrupted or anything, it's probably the M.2 incompatibility causing the issues. Try removing the second M.2 and leaving the HDD in there to check if it works again and if your data is still there or not.
