How do I fit an extra M.2 into my system?

[NunoLava1998]

My motherboard only has one PCIe slot (occupied by the graphics card; I cannot change the PCIe slot configuration with risers/etc/whatever due to case limitations), and one M.2 x4 slot which I'm currently using.

Would it ever be possible to cram a second M.2 SSD into my system? Only having x2 capability is fine; I don't want M.2 SATA

 

Specifications:

Ryzen 5 1500X

ASRock B450 Gaming ITX/AC

16GB DDR4

Optane 800P 58GB M.2 SSD

Patriot Burst 240GB 2.5" SSD

Toshiba Q300 240GB 2.5" SSD

Sapphire RX 570 PULSE 4GB

beQuiet SFX Power 2 400W

Silverstone ML08B

[5x5]

Nope,.you are out of PCIe slots so you can't really get an expansion card

[NunoLava1998]

Just now, 5x5 said:

Nope,.you are out of PCIe slots so you can't really get an expansion card

The only thing I could do was plug in a M2->PCIe adapter into the M.2 slot, and then into that PCIe slot a card which supports multiple NVMe SSDs

[Windows7ge]

No, your options here are only SATA to M.2 or USB to M.2. Should have picked a motherboard with more slots.

 

29 minutes ago, NunoLava1998 said:

The only thing I could do was plug in a M2->PCIe adapter into the M.2 slot, and then into that PCIe slot a card which supports multiple NVMe SSDs

This would not work. For this to work the motherboard must support PCI_e Bi-furcation of which is primarily a server feature not found on most desktops. Even then the M.2 slot may not support being divided like a PCI_e slot further making this not possible.

[TetraSky]

Get rid of the Optane and get a higher capacity, fast NMVE storage instead.

Not only are you on AMD so it's not performing it's best with StoreMI, but you don't even have a HDD to accelerate with Optane. The performances is negligible with a SSD compared to simply getting a 3000MB/s NVME drive.

[NunoLava1998]

55 minutes ago, TetraSky said:

Get rid of the Optane and get a higher capacity, fast NMVE storage instead.

Not only are you on AMD so it's not performing it's best with StoreMI, but you don't even have a HDD to accelerate with Optane. The performances is negligible with a SSD compared to simply getting a 3000MB/s NVME drive.

The Optane is being used as a boot, programs and small games drive, not an acceleration drive. 

Optane Memory or M10 drives are for acceleration, Optane H10 drives are SSD+Optane combos and Optane 800P, 900P and 905P is Optane SSD (aka an actual SSD).

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Looking at that motherboard, I'd say that your only option is to replace the current NVMe drive with a larger one. 

If you really want to add an SSD, it'll have to be a regular SATA one.