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Where should I slot my sata based m.2 ssd?

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I have a question.

 

I recently purchased a Gigabyte gaming 7 AM4 motherboard along with an EZDIY-FAB dual m.2 expansion card. 

 

My drives are a 500gb Crucial MX500 sata m.2 drive for animation files and a 250gb Samsung 970 Evo NVMe drive for OS and work programs (I got an additional 250gb 2.5 ssd for large games and a firecuda for general storage as well)

 

Now the upper m.2 slot on the gigabyte board is pcie 3.0 (the 970 Evo goes here) while the lower slot is pcie 2.0. Both slots on the FAB card are 3.0. Now if I place the MX500 on the lower slot will I get full speed of the ssd? Or should I place it in the EZDIY card, and slot that into the 8x slot on the motherboard? 

 

Also will placing the EZDIY card in one of the 4x pcie 2.0 slots slow down an nvme drive?

 

These may seem like dumb questions but I can't find any answers for them anywhere.

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Keep the 970 Evo where it sits, and wherever you desire for the M.2 MX500. It runs on SATA so any PCIe supporting M.2 slot won't bottleneck it.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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3 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Keep the 970 Evo where it sits, and wherever you desire for the M.2 MX500. It runs on SATA so any PCIe supporting M.2 slot won't bottleneck it.

Thanks!

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