Where do I install my M.2 on X470 Aorus MOBO

[vjizzle2384]

So I’ve been using Crucial SSDs for 8 months, have 5 of them And they’re pretty much amazing to me. Now if you days ago on Amazon I saw this: Crucial P1 1TB 3D NAND NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD - CT1000P1SSD8 for only $105 @ about reads/writes up to 2,000/1,700 MB/s.  

 

Now on I have never used an M.2, where do I install it my MOBO is X470 Aorus Gaming 7 WiFi  Version 1.0.  Now I see 2 slots I was going to install it in the M2A one under the GPU PCIE x16. 

 

Now will this slow down my NVME or my GPU since i read so where that it will both use the PCIEx16 slots power and slow them down or I read it wrong?

 

 

[Yellow_]

The top slot closest to the cpu, it uses minimal power- your gpu won't be affected

[faziten]

Hi, the difference between M.2A and M.2B in your motherboard is as follows:

 

M.2A supports 22110 SSDs (the longest M.2 between both).

M.2A supports SATA SSDs too, B doesn't

M.2A has a "note 2" that refers to be linked to CPU capabilities, so it may be directly connected to CPU PCI lanes, rather than chipset. But I cannot find source for this assumption.

 

All in all, i'd use M.2A unless your GPU is cooking it blasting hot air to it.

[Jurrunio]

the top slot

 

36 minutes ago, vjizzle2384 said:

Now will this slow down my NVME or my GPU since i read so where that it will both use the PCIEx16 slots power and slow them down or I read it wrong?

no it doesnt, Ryzen has 20 PCIe lanes, 16 for graphics card and 4 for PCIe storage

[vjizzle2384]

5 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

the top slot

 

no it doesnt, Ryzen has 20 PCIe lanes, 16 for graphics card and 4 for PCIe storage

 So I should be good under my GPU,  my motherboard also has heat sinks for all my M.2.

[vjizzle2384]

10 minutes ago, faziten said:

Hi, the difference between M.2A and M.2B in your motherboard is as follows:

 

M.2A supports 22110 SSDs (the longest M.2 between both).

M.2A supports SATA SSDs too, B doesn't

M.2A has a "note 2" that refers to be linked to CPU capabilities, so it may be directly connected to CPU PCI lanes, rather than chipset. But I cannot find source for this assumption.

 

All in all, i'd use M.2A unless your GPU is cooking it blasting hot air to it.

My MOBO has heat sinks for both M.2 slot

[faziten]

3 minutes ago, vjizzle2384 said:

My MOBO has heat sinks for both M.2 slot

The heatsink is a heat exchange medium. If your GPU has an open air cooling solution, it may be blasting air at said heatsink, cooking the ssd underneath. Monitor the temperature since some SSDs (in particular some samsung high end ssds) like to be at high 90º's on load.

[vjizzle2384]

So I found this on the Gigabyte Aorus page

So the M.2 am buying is a 2280 so I guess it goes on the bottom slot.  Any thoughts?  LOL am just plain confused.

[Stefan Payne]

4 minutes ago, vjizzle2384 said:

So I found this on the Gigabyte Aorus page

So the M.2 am buying is a 2280 so I guess it goes on the bottom slot.  Any thoughts?

 

for Performance top slot.

For longivety buttom slot

 

Because the GPU blows hot air onto the SSD on the top, it might die sooner.

 

And with only 2TB/sec, I'd use th bottom one as that's about the limit of x4 PCIe 2.0 lanes.

[vjizzle2384]

29 minutes ago, Stefan Payne said:

for Performance top slot.

For longivety buttom slot

 

Because the GPU blows hot air onto the SSD on the top, it might die sooner.

 

And with only 2TB/sec, I'd use th bottom one as that's about the limit of x4 PCIe 2.0 lanes.

Thank you will do 

[ProCompSolutions]

I put a 500gb WD Black M.2 750 drive on the top m.2 slot works great, tried to also add a WD blue m2 1tb drive on bottom slot and it will not recognize any other m2 in the bottom slot also tried a 860 samsung and nothing.  IS there something I am missing maybe in the bios or something?  Do i have to turn raid on or?

[Arsdan]

On 4/3/2019 at 3:26 AM, faziten said:

Hi, the difference between M.2A and M.2B in your motherboard is as follows:

 

M.2A supports 22110 SSDs (the longest M.2 between both).

M.2A supports SATA SSDs too, B doesn't

M.2A has a "note 2" that refers to be linked to CPU capabilities, so it may be directly connected to CPU PCI lanes, rather than chipset. But I cannot find source for this assumption.

 

All in all, i'd use M.2A unless your GPU is cooking it blasting hot air to it.

What model M.2 can buy for socket B??