[PLUG] USB Adapter for NVMe drive

[tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com]

When I do such things, I do not bother with adapters, even opening the laptop.

I simply boot the laptop to live Linux OS - Knoppix is my favorite, but any live
linux bootable from USB stick is fine - Then I save (dd) the drive over the
network to NAS or other other PC.

Reading the disk and compressing the data is typically way slower than a wired
network, so there is no speed advantage in using a dongle.

the actual command would look like:
dd if=/dev/sda |  ssh user at computerName 'cat - > fileNameOnTheOtherPc'
or if you want to compress before sending it over:
dd if=/dev/sda |  xz -c | ssh user at computerName 'cat - >
fileNameOnTheOtherPc.xz'

Obviously your NVMe device will show up as /dev/nvme..... not /dev/sda

Maybe that can be an option too.

Tomas

On Fri, 2019-11-15 at 15:39 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> My new computer will be here next Thursday with a 1TB Solid State
> Drive, M.2 PCIe-NVMe, Opal (from the Lenovo web page). When it arrives
> the drive will have Windows 10 on it. My plan is to remove the drive
> from the computer, put it in a USB adapter that I can plug into my
> current laptop, then use GParted to delete the partition(s) and create
> new ext4 partitions for / and /home. Then I will copy everything from
> the / and /home partitions on my current laptop to the respective
> partitions on the new drive, make / partition bootable, and put the
> drive back in the computer.
> 
> Although I've never done this before, I assume it is doable. However, I
> need a USB adapter to put the new NVMe drive into, preferably by
> Thursday. I am guessing that such an adapter is not in stock anywhere
> locally, so I went online and found this one:
> 
> https://www.newegg.com/p/0VN-006F-00039?Description=nvme%20enclosure&cm_re=nvm
> e_enclosure-_-9SIA6V88SG2944-_-Product
> 
> I am not sure that the above adapter is the correct one for my new
> drive, nor do I know if there might be a place to obtain such an
> adapter locally. And I also invite other suggestions regarding my grand
> scheme to port my current OS installation to the new computer.
> 
> Any suggestions welcome!
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