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4.1. Adding a M.2 drive to the Mirage/Scorch Systems
M.2 Drive installation
Sometimes you want the speed of an M.2 SSD, however your PC only has mechanical spindle drives installed. Switching to M.2 SSD is a very easy process providing your PC is equipped with the proper M.2 slots. Once the new drive is installed, you can either remove the mechanical drives, or reformat them to use as a data only drives.
To install an M.2 drive, follow these instructions.
1) Locate the M.2 slot on the motherboard. You should see the slot shown in the picture. You will also see 3 or 4 mounting locations for the end of the drive.
2) As long as the motherboard has an available M.2 slot, the M.2 drive can be installed. Next you will need an M.2 hard drive with mounting hardware (unless the hardware is already installed) See picture below of required hardware.
3) In picture 1, you may notice there are 4 mounting points where the drive can be anchored to. To determine the proper anchor point, lay the drive across the slot with the connector ends touching and see how far the drive extends into the slot. In the picture below, the drive comes to the third anchor point.
4) Next, screw the standoff into the proper anchor point.
5) Install the SSD drive by aligning the drive into the slot. Make sure the grooves align.
6) Then insert completely into slot.
7) Press the opposite end of the drive down until it rests on the previously installed standoff.
8) Attach the screw into the standoff which will hold the drive into place.
Congratulations! That is all there is to installing an M.2 drive into a Transource PC.
Note: If you want the new M.2 drive to contain the bootable copy of Windows, you will need to install Windows (or Windows image) on this drive. You will also need to change the boot order in BIOS, or remove, or reformat, any previously installed SATA drives otherwise those older drives could still be the default boot option.