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Hi guys, my OS sata ssd 450Gb disk is almost full, and i need a new drive for my os I run Unreal + Quixel bridge another 3d softwares that put a lot of content into the little ssd i have i got anothers disk who are at 60-70% - 1Tb nvme only for UE and blender 3D projects and another 1T nvme for my 3d Asset Library but the UE project will grow in the near future so right now i see a lot of offers in amazon for an wd-SN770-black-2Tb at 120€, also the crucial P3 Plus and a Samsung 980 pro 1Tb at 90€, nevertheless i hear a lot of warnings about the ram-less nvme like this two i would like to have your advice in this area, because i dont want to spend money for nothing thanks in advance

Hi everyone! Looks like I'm starting to run a little low on storage space so I figured it'd be time to start looking around for options when the time comes. I'm currently using both of my motherboard's M.2 slots which only leaves me with either PCI-E or SATA. The only thing is I'm a bit new/an idiot when it comes to storage... I'm wondering is whether it'd be better/makes more sense by installing one or more NVMe drives on a 16x PCI-E M.2 expansion card (such as a Asus Hyper M.2 x16 PCI-E 4.0 Get 4 Expansion Card) (because less cable management to deal with) or just using a regular 2.5" SATA SSD in order to maintain the overall fastest read/write speeds possible (I know that any NVME drives on an expansion card would be running on PCI-E 3.0). Hopefully I didn't leave out any important info. Thanks in advance to everyone for your help/advice! The PC in question is running a 5700X on a B550 Aorus Elite AX V2 (rev 1.2) which has the following: Expansion Slots: 1 x PCI Express x16 slot (PCIEX16), integrated in the CPU: Occupied by the GPU 1 x PCI Express x16 slot (PCIEX2), integrated in the Chipset: Supporting PCIe 3.0 x2 mode 1 x PCI Express x16 slot (PCIEX1_2), integrated in the Chipset: Supporting PCIe 3.0 x1 mode 1 x PCI Express x1 slot (PCIEX1_1), integrated in the Chipset: Supporting PCIe 3.0 x1 mode Motherboard's Storage Interface: 1 x M.2 connector (M2A_CPU), integrated in the CPU Occupied by a 1TB Samsung 980 Pro (boot drive) (MZ-V8P1T0CW) 1 x M.2 connector (M2B_SB), integrated in the Chipset Occupied by a 500GB Samsung 970 EVO (MZ-V7E500BW) 4 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors, integrated in the Chipset: 1 of these connectors is already in use by an existing 1TB Samsung 860 QVO 2.5" SSD (MZ-76Q1T0/AM)

So, my M.2 somehow not detected. This issue occur out of nowhere. Here are the scenario regarding the issue than happen: 1. I boot up pc 2. Logged into windows 3. PC black screen then it restart automatically (out of nowhere) 4. When PC boot up it keep going to BIOS because it can't detect my M.2 NVME for windows Anyone know what is the most probable cause? Is it because of the mobo m.2 socket faulty or M.2? I am still speculating, I personally can't test which is one the cause becuase I don't have multiple ssd/mobo to test it out. I need to fix it ASAP because it is also my workstation note:This issue happened 2 times. For the first time somehow the issue got fixed by itself and M.2 was detected. But not for the second one

So I just recently bought an 1tb M.2 NVME drive, and already have a 1tb HDD in my PC. I was wondering what the best use for these would be. I was thinking of setting up RAID 1 but I read in some places online that RAID can be buggy with NVME drives. Should I do it or is it better to just have 2tb of storage. I don't really have anything important worth backing up, but I don't really need 2tb of storage either.

Just build a computer for the first time. Put in M. 2 nvme (my only storage drive) and can only get to the screen below. Cannot open bios. Took out nvme drive and can get into bios, please help.

Hello. I am building a new PC and came across the following dilemma: Should I opt for a second nvme or a regular SATA SSD? A while ago a saw Techquickie video that mentioned that adding additional nvme drives will slow down GPU due to insufficient PCIe lanes. I did some googling and many people say that the loss would be insignificant (around 4%). But they also mention that it also depends on motherboard. So can anyone here help me decide on whether I should buy a second nvme for OS or settle for SATA? The other nvme will be the main drive (2tb). Here is the setup I am going with (subject to changes, if you suggest anything better): CPU: i7 14700kf GPU: 3070 ti MoBo: ASUS TUF Gaming Z790-PLUS WiFi

Hello all, I'm a bit confused regarding the Pcie-lanes my motherboard has. Specs: R5 2600x Asus prime b450 plus Rtx 3070 I just bought recently a new nvme m.2 ssd and I want to transfer some data from my old one to the new one (eventually i would use both at the same time). I would buy a pcie to m.2 adaptercard and place it in my 2nd pcie 2.0 x16 slot. My problem is I DON'T want that my pcie3.0 x16 gets downgraded to x8 and the pcie 2.0 runs in x8. (In bios I have the bifurcation option, It's on auto tho). So i looked the specs up in the manual but I'm a bit confused about it, I hope u can help my with clarification . 1. Does the 2nd pcie x16 only run @4 or it could run faster (like if I would use a x16 adapter card instead of a x4). Or is it only a x16 slot with wiring only for x4? 2. I know that the 2nd pcie get the lanes from the chipset but if it would run in x8 mode would it take it from the cpu? Thanks people! Have a nice evening/day

Hi, I've just purchased a new MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK MAX WIFI It has a PCIE 4.0 and a 3.0 x16 Slot. It also has 2 NVME Slots 4.0 and 3.0. I currently have 2 x 4.0 4TB NVME drives in my NVME 4.0 and 3.0 slots. And my GTX 1080 TI in my 4.0 x16 Slot. I was wondering whether it would be better to move my GPU to the 3.0 16x slot as its a 3.0 GPU. And put the 4.0 NVME in a PCIE adapter and put that in the 4.0 x16 slot. Is my logic sound on this or am I missing something, Thanks

Hi Everyone, My new PC is having this issue where once it's been on and running Windows 11 for an hour or two, suddenly my mouse and keyboard won't do anything. It will continue to play music, videos, or games but my mouse and keyboard just won't work. I think the issue has to do with my SSD. I had this Samsung 2TB NVMe M.2 SSD in my old PC that I put in in the new build. My old PC was running Windows 10, so I had to do the whole Windows bootdrive and got Windows 11 running on the new PC. (The NVMe SSD is 7 months old. Used for casual gaming and programming) Are there specific drivers that I need to update? I've updated the GeForce drivers. When I transferred the card to the new PC, all I did was pull it out of the old PC and stick it straight into the new one. Was I supposed to do anything special before pulling it out or now that it's in the the build? I'll post the builds bellow. Thanks! New build: CPU: Intel Core i9-12900K 3.2GHz Motherboard: MSI Z690-A Pro DDR4 Intel LGA 1700 ATX RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 64GB Power Supply: NZXT C850 Gold 850 Watt Video Card: MSI NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ventus M.2 / NVMe SSD: [[Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD 2TB M.2 NVMe]] Old build (same NVMe SSD): CPU: i5 6600k @ 4.2GHz Motherboard: ASRock Z270 Extreme4 RAM: 16GB 2666mhz Corsair Vengeance Power Supply: EVGA Supernova 750w Semi-modular 80+ Bronze PSU Video Card: EVGA GTX 1070 SC 8gb M.2 / NVMe SSD: [[Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD 2TB M.2 NVMe]]

Hi, I have a Corsair Force series NVMe m.2 SSD 240GB 2280. I want to use it as a portable USB drive. I looked for an enclosure and found ORICO M2PF-P3 M.2 NGFF SSD enclosure. I have attached the photos. Would this enclosure support my NVMe drive ? Thanks

Hello, ive been having a whole host of issues with windows 11 crashing and being corrupted, so i decided to do a fresh install of it. I went through it all and when it went blank in the getting started screen and booted to the bios. now my nvme ssd is not being detected and i cant find any of my drives in the installation page. all i want is someone who can maybe help explain what to do because every video i watch is either too complicated or they dont help one bit. i have an amd system and everywhere i was looking it was talking about the raid software and downloading drivers and when i downloaded the right ones it said they werent but i followed the manual through thoroughly for about 3 hours and still nothing worked Thanks in advance

Hi, My current setup consists of a desktop PC with the following hardware configuration: Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Mainboard: MSI B450 Gaming plus max RAM: G.Skill Trident Z 16GB single stick Graphics: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 (GV-970XTREME-4GD) Power supply: 550W PSU Storage: Corsair Force MP510 240GB nvme M.2 SSD (Operating System) SATA HDD Seagate 3TB (Secondary Storage for media files) The Issue: During my recent travels, I left my PC unused and put it turned off for a week. Upon my return, I attempted to boot Windows, but it failed. I turned to Google for help and discovered that resetting the BIOS or reassembling the RAM could resolve the issue. I proceeded to try both solutions, one after the other. After several attempts, including reassembling the RAM and flashing/resetting the BIOS, I was finally able to successfully boot up the PC and reach the operating system welcome login screen. I encountered an issue while trying to log in to Windows. Upon entering the password, the system froze, and a blue screen error message appeared, indicating "WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR". After a brief moment, the PC restarted and redirected me to the BIOS settings. It seems that the M.2 SSD was initially detected by the BIOS under storage peripherals but disappeared shortly after, even though it's still in the slot. Despite persistently checking the BIOS, the M.2 SSD cannot be detected all day long. When attempting to boot to Windows, the BSOD message "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key" appeared. When I turn on my PC after a long time, the BIOS only detects the M.2 SSD once. However, after a few minutes of being on the BIOS settings, it disappears. The SSD only reappears when I turn off the PC and turn it on again after a significant amount of time has passed. I've attempted to use startup repair and Windows restore, as well as other solutions, but unfortunately, none of them have been successful. To make it easier for you to assist me, I've included screenshots. The M.2 SSD contains important files that I'm unable to recover due to the fact that I'm unable to boot up and log in to Windows. Additionally, I've noticed that the M.2 SSD feels excessively hot to the touch when I power on my computer. It appears as though it's been running for an extended period of time, despite the fact that I've only just turned on my PC. It seems like there are sufficient airflows to maintain a cooler environment inside the CPU chassis. However, this should not be causing the M.2 SSD to heat up instantly during boot. In 2020, I bought this M.2 SSD that comes with a 5-year smart warranty. However, I learned that if I send it to the RMA, they will only replace the drive and not recover my data files. I attempted to use the Windows Recovery mode CMD notepad method to transfer my data to another drive. Unfortunately, this approach proved unsuccessful, as I encountered frequent freezes on the recovery mode when the M.2 SSD was installed in the Motherboard M.2 slot. It's worth noting that I don't use any heatsink on the M.2 SSD. I'm unable to operate my desktop computer because of this problem that's greatly impacting my daily routine. I would greatly appreciate your assistance. Thank you.

Hi! So I've been dealing with this issue for the past 5 months and it's driving me insane. Basically the nvme SSD goes to 100% usage when absolutely nothing is running in the task manager. For example, if I don't touch the pc, the ssd usage will be 5 to 10% but if I open let's say just the browser, the SSD usage will jump to 100% for a good minute before going back to 5%. Specs: Ryzen 7 5800x Gtx 1050 MSI MPG B550 gaming edge wifi 32 gb ram DDR4 3600 NVME SSD adata gammix s50 lite 1tb (pcie gen 4) What I've tried so far: Updated the bios Switched the nvme SSD to the second slot Switched from Windows 10 to 11 Basically the only way that I've found to temporarily fix the issue is to entierly reset windows (personnal files included). If I reset windows but keep my files, the issue does not diseappear. Edit: Forgot to mention it but yeah, the PC becomes extremely slow, from booting up the system to launch any app Edit 2: New screenshot added. The Malwarebytes scan did not find anything, and I did not install anything that could compromise the security. Also I find it weird that the speed test is good. (and yes I set it to nvme SSD) Also it says that in total more that 7.6 tb have been written on the disk which is litteraly impossible, even after all my resets, it shouldn't be more than 2.5 tb. Is it possible that the ssd was previously owned by someone else even though I bought it a new product???

Hi, I'm trying to upgrade a system to nvme m.2 on a MSI gaming 5 z97 motherboard. I've updated the bios to the latest version, tried all combinations of settings on the BIOS, left the SATA-5 and 6 ports unpopulated (as they are disabled when using the M.2 port on this board) but I can't get it to detect the brand new 1tb nvme m2 drive I installed. Trying to install Windows 10 on it the drive still isn't recognize here either, are there proven methods to resolve this issue?

Hello all, I need some clarification on the text from motherboard manual on nvme shared bandwidth with sata ports. Motherboard: Asus Prime X670E-PRO M.2_2 slot shares bandwidth with SATA6G_1&2. When M.2_2 runs at PCle x4 mode. SATA6G_ 1&2 will be disabled. On Page 2 PCIe x 4 mode = disables SATA 1 & 2. Understood here. Okay, so if I decide to run M.2_2 in PCIe x2 mode instead of PCIe x4 mode, what max speeds can I expect the nvme to run assuming it's a GEN 3 drive (3500mb/s). Also what does SATA indicate from the table in page 1. Different speeds? Thank you.

How to know if my motherboard supports M.2 NVME SSD OR M.2 SATA SSD. My laptop's motherboard model no is X507UF. The Manual doesn't says anything. Also attaching the Manual with this. 0409_E14190_X507UAR_UBR_UF_A.pdf

I have installed Win 11 on NVMe M.2 drive with a SSD attached to another port. It boots in Dual Boot mode, It wont boot without the SSD attached. I don't know how I have managed this, I just want to have the NVMe drive as main boot. I was also wondering does this effect performance of the drive?

I tried reading the forums and other posts i watched videos and i am just confused now. This is for my boot drive. i posted once before similar topic, however this time i want to get a much larger drive. the one i bought was only a 500GB drive ( WD Black SN770 gen 4 ) My motherboard is ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. PRIME B450M-A ( only gen 3 pci-e) I have 2 choices both cost the same One 2TB and by specs is faster then the 1 TB samsung My main goal is to have a faster boot drive and more storage and i am only gaming. My thoughts are These 2 gen 3 drives are the same spec wise and i should just go with the 2Tb one. even though i know t he samsung is a very solid brand. I also have 2 gen 4 drives which are better spec wise and cheaper to boot. and both 2TB. my thinking with those 2 is they will run at max gen 3 speeds no matter what. ( i will post specs in a reply under here )

I have a Western digital sn850 1tb placed in my first m.2 slot on my MSI x570 meg unify board. My cpu is a ryzen 7 5800x and I have a 2080ti. There also is a Samsung gen 3 nvme placed in the second m.2 slot. I don't know what I am doing wrong. Surely this gen 4 nvme should just show up as gen normally. I have no idea if there is a problem with available PCIe lanes etc, really am a noobie. I see no option in bios where I can configure m.2 lanes etc. Please help. I do realise there is no real benefit for the better gen 4 speeds especially for someone who uses the pc for gaming like me, But I want the speeds I paid for!

Hi, my sister's macbook air 2013 died and i was not able to save it. But i was able to get an adapter for the SSD that Apple uses. Now the issue is, am not able to read it. I can see it in diskmanagment and also windows 11 gui for Disk and volumes. I tried with to read it with a "apfs" software called "Mac Drive 10 Pro", but was not recognized . and with ¨"HFSExplorer" i got the error: Not a HFS type drive / wrong type. The disk is not encrypted and if windows is not lying its a Fat32 system, but then i should be ale to read it correct ? Also the disk does not show up in normal windows explorer at all, only in bios and disk utility. Does any one have a suggestion ? The easy was is ofc to format it, and it would work fine, but i wanted to get the data from it first, since my sister for some reason did not have important documents backed up / in cloud

I built a new PC with the 5600x, the above mentioned motherboard, 32gb of G.Skill Ripjaw at 4000mhz (XMP disabled during troubleshooting, so just running at default speed), and 2 NVME SSDs, ADATA SX8100 for boot and S40G for storage (omitting other components such as PSU and GPU as they may not be relevant). Naturally, I placed my boot drive into the CPU M.2 slot while the storage into the slot at the back of the motherboard. The issue reared its head when the PC failed to detect the boot drive I intended to install the OS on during the Windows installation process, but the always showed up as detected in the BIOS. After getting Windows 10 installed, the PC would occasionally fail to boot and display text requesting for a bootable device. The issue was especially prevalent when the PC soft rebooted upon updates. Besides the issues during boot up, some aspects of the Windows would be dysfunctional or not present in the OS, most notably Bluetooth and front panel USB. Those issues are somehow linked to the CPU M.2 slot as I will explain later. For Bluetooth (BT, rip in peace in the Frontier), the connections to my device, an XBOX Series X controller mostly, would be dropped at random intervals, or Windows would not detect BT functionality whatsoever, and I tried reinstalling network drivers to no avail. Similar issues were present for the front panel USB, and they are all USB 3.0. After several re-installations of OS, flashing the BIOS, and even considering RMA my mobo, I finally decided to just swap to the M.2 slot at the back of the mobo for my boot drive, and almost all the problems were resolved. Boot up never failed to detect my boot drive, Bluetooth and F_Panel USB are present and did not drop connections. At first I thought it was a bad connection to the CPU M.2 slot that caused the trouble, as the heat sink, with the M.2 screws on it, made so that the SSD pins not fully inserted into the M.2 slot. But after taking the heat sink out, the issues were still present, if not slightly alleviated. For a person with limited knowledge with regards to the inner workings of the computer, my wild theory for the boot drive woes is that the M.2 slot connected directly to the CPU is not for PCIe gen 3 NVME drive but gen 4 instead. I do not know any other explanations. Finally, even though the issues are no longer in a "this is unusable piece of s___" manner, I still want my boot drive to be back in the CPU M.2 slot, as my S40G already came with an heat sink while the mobo M.2 heat sink is still on the SX8100, so I would love to see a solution to the problem, be it downgrading the M.2 slot to gen 3 or whatever, the help will be much appreciated. Thanks for reading! I can provide more info should it be needed.

Hi, I've had my Samsung 970 EVO 500GB NVMe drive for 2 years now, moved it from my laptop to my current setup this summer and never benchmarked the speeds till now and noticed that it was running at 800-900 MBps both reading and writing when running crystaldiskmark. However, if I boot into the BIOS, and then select save changes and restart i get 3500 MBps for read and 2500 MBps for write (but it goes back down to 800-900 MBps after i turn off the computer and back on). I have an MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Edge Wifi motherboard with an intel i5-10600k and the 970 EVO is connected to the top-most m.2 slot which is PCIe 3.0 x4 (an in crystalmarkinfo it says the transfer mode is PCIe 3.0 x4) which to my knowledge should support up to 4000 MBps reads and write (but i'm only getting 1/4 of that). The 970 EVO also has the windows OS on it. The only other drive i have is a 2tb 7200rpm seagate hdd connected by sata. I have the Samsung NVMe Controller driver installed and I looked far and wide on the internet but I couldn't find anything. Any help is greatly appreciated, please let me know if you need any more information about anything. Thanks in advance.

2 days ago i upgraded my pc to i9 10850 and asus rog z490 g , the system worked fine for 2 days ,today the pc show no bootable device , in bios it doesn't detect the SSD (intel 660p PCIE x4), tried clearing cmos, reseating the SSD ,but it doesn't detects it, as a last resort , i put it in the second m.2 slot and it works fine .the mobo manual indicate that the first slot for pcie nvme, the second for pcie and sata both ,dont know what is the cause of the problem as this the first time seeing this problem ,even on the internet nothing helps

Specs: Windows 10 64 bit. 256 Intel SSD as C drive 500GB SanDisk drive 2TB SeaGate SSHD 500GB 970 Samsung NVME Drive Asus 280Super 1000watt EVGA SuperNova 16gb Corsair DDR4 ASUS ROG STRIX Z490-E GAMING LGA 1200 Intel Z490 (all BIOS updates are done through Armoury Crate) My PC operated fine before i inserted the Samsung m.2 drive. shortly after installing it my PC would, when put to sleep, turn off all output as expected and the RGB fans would go to their default lighting mode. Usually it would then just shut off after a few seconds, but instead after around 5 minutes of seemingly nothing the entire rig would shutdown, with all internal RBG lighting shutting off when instead it would idle (such as the RAM). After doing some suggestions from Reddit which included updating the drivers and turning off hibernate mode it worked perfectly fine, until something that i did not change myself changed and it again would not go to sleep, instead crashing. according to reliability history there are usually 3 entries for shutdown, all from Windows. "Windows was not properly shut down", "Windows stopped working", and "windows shut down unexpectedly". One that pops up only once directly references a hardware issue states that a hardware problem caused the shutdown but not which piece of hardware. The drive itself works fine, with it being only being a month old now and clearly able to work as for much of the time i have had it worked as intended. I can both write to it and read to it fine with speed tests showing that it is running as fast as it should as well. If any more information is required i can upload it of course.

I've been looking into expanding my storage solution, and I eventually settled on buying a PCIe expansion card that allows the installation of up to four M.2 drives. Something like the ASUS Hyper M.2 X16 PCIe 4.0 X4 Expansion Card. However, I am confused about the actual effects of installing this kind of card. I intend to install this card in an 8x slot (below the 16x slot used for the GPU) as that will provide more than enough bandwidth for my needs, but some sources are telling me that this will drop the speed of the 16x slot. Is this true? Having the two competing for bandwidth shouldn't be an issue, as they will rarely be under load at the same time, but if the speed of the slot will be dropped from 16x to 8x, that will cause problems. I have just learned about PCIe bifurcation, where a 16x lane is split into four 4x lanes. Again, 4x should be more than enough for my needs, but it seems that not all boards support this feature. Does anyone know if the Gigabyte Designare Z390 supports it? I believe that to be the case, but I can't find anything about it on the manual or on the website. I do have two M.2 slots on the motherboard that I have yet to populate, but I was told that populating them will disable three of the six SATA ports on the board. Is this correct? Basically, I want to transition away from hard drives and populate the PC entirely with NVMEs, but I'm having trouble figuring out exactly how that's going to function and where the available bandwidth will be going.