Is it possible to use an NVME Drive in Freenas on a 3770K?

[jrga]

I have a 480gb NVME Kingston drive with a PCIe to m.2 converter taken out from my old PC and im wondering if It would be possible to use it in my FreeNAS server which is sporting a Gigabyte Z77 UP4 TH and an i7 3770K. I understand it probably wont be bootable but even to use it for caching would be nice. 

[the gamer that is bad]

4 minutes ago, jrga said:

I have a 480gb NVME Kingston drive with a PCIe to m.2 converter taken out from my old PC and im wondering if It would be possible to use it in my FreeNAS server which is sporting a Gigabyte Z77 UP4 TH and an i7 3770K. I understand it probably wont be bootable but even to use it for caching would be nice. 

it probably would be just like any other ssd

[Jumballi]

As long as the motherboard has the port you’re good.

[jrga]

1 minute ago, Jumballi said:

As long as the motherboard has the port you’re good.

Theres no M.2 slot only the mSATA, But I have an m.2 to Pci-e adaptor, its a pretty old board around 2012

[the gamer that is bad]

1 minute ago, jrga said:

Theres no M.2 slot only the mSATA, But I have an m.2 to Pci-e adaptor, its a pretty old board around 2012

it should but the only way to truly know is to test

[jrga]

2 minutes ago, the gamer that is bad said:

it should but the only way to truly know is to test

yeah I will be testing tomorrow, just wanted to make sure I wasnt completely wasting my time before I undo all my network setup to access the server, thank you both for your advice and giving me some hope!!

[the gamer that is bad]

1 minute ago, jrga said:

yeah I will be testing tomorrow, just wanted to make sure I wasnt completely wasting my time before I undo all my network setup to access the server, thank you both for your advice and giving me some hope!!

yup and i understand the hesitation for pulling a server off the network.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Yes it will work fine unless you want it to be a boot drive.

[Camofelix]

Yup, should work fine! For what it's worth my server/workstation is running westmere era xeons (x58 AKA pre sandy bridge) and it's booting from an adata SSD without a hitch