How easy will it be to change the M.2 drive in this?

[David689]

Hi,
I bought the system below about 18 months ago and I love it. I mostly use it for Lightroom. Before it was built swapped the 1TB M.2 drive to a 500GB and added a 1TB one. So it has Windows and Lightroom on a 500GB M.2 drive and my photos on the 1Tb drive. I wonder how easy it would be to swap the 1Tb for a 2TB one? What I'm wondering about is how accessible the drives are, inside the case.

(I have sufficient external drives with which to transfer the data).

(since purchase I have added an AX200 bluetooth/WiFi card to one PCIe slot and a card that adds a fast USB-C socket to another PCIe slot).

Case
CORSAIR 4000D AIRFLOW TEMPERED GLASS GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16 Core CPU (3.4GHz-4.9GHz/72MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® ROG STRIX X570-F GAMING (USB 3.2 Gen 2, PCIe 4.0) - ARGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
64GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz (4 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
12GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3060 - HDMI, DP, LHR
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB SAMSUNG 980 PRO M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 7000MB/R, 5000MB/W)
Memory Card Reader
USB 3.0 EXTERNAL SD/MICRO SD CARD READER
Power Supply
CORSAIR 850W RMx SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1.5 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
CORSAIR iCUE H115i ELITE CAPELLIX RGB Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Card
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
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Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
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Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 10 to 13 working days
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[Steveyg]

It's easy enough to be honest I believe the two M.2 slots are under heat sinks on that particular motherboard one above the GPU PCie slot slightly below the CPU slot and one between the PCie slots to the right. There will be a heat sink that you can remove via screw driver to get access to it

Actually changing the drives is super easy to be honest, take the screw out gently pull it from the slot. Put the new on in the slot and screw it in wham bang it's installed

Some details on your motherboard below, if you go to the storage and memory section it shows the exact location of the two M.2 slots

ROG Strix X570-F Gaming | Motherboards | ROG United Kingdom

AMD Ryzen 3000 series ATX motherboard with Aura Sync, Intel Gigabit LAN, Dual PCIe 4.0 M.2 with heatsinks, SupremeFX and USB 3.2 Gen 2

rog.asus.com

 

[Steveyg]

View attachment 36549

Just on the additional socket it's actually under that heat sink between the two PCie slots at the bottom. That red label might confuse a little

 

[ubuysa]

Just on the additional socket it's actually under that heat sink between the two PCie slots at the bottom. That red label might confuse a little

My mistake! Now deleted. Thank you. 😵‍💫

 

[David689]

Thank you everyone.