NVME 2280 compatibility for Gigabyte TRX40 Designare

[MarkusRK200]

Hey everyone,

 

I live in Brazil and our selection of NVMEs is relatively small. Like WD Blues and ADATA Spectrix and Swordfishs. The problem I have is that I mostly go through the Support Page of Gigabyte for my particular board, look up the identification code for example for the Samsung Evo 970 Plus MZ-V7E500 and I have issues finding stock, but in some cases I find units that seem to be entered in the list of supporting a 500GB chip but not the code for 1TB or 2 TB. So the question being asked, does it matter at all if I ram 4 M2s on the board itself and another 4 in my AIC Controller that NEED to be on the Support list or dont they...Its frustrating.

[SorryBella]

NVME AICs usually dont care about the compatibility as they usually just bifurcate the pcie lanes theyre plugged into to a bunch of M.2 slots thats on the AIC. Same with M.2 slots on the motherboard, as long as its sized correctly with right keying it should work.

[MarkusRK200]

3 minutes ago, SorryClaire said:

sized correctly with right keying

Thank you for your response. Could you please explain this in a little more detail, I never heard the term keying before maybe I understand it better in laymans terms.

[SorryBella]

6 minutes ago, MarkusRK200 said:

I never heard the term keying before

M.2 has multiple keys, made to avoid customers from accidentally shoving incompatible modules in an m.2 slot. For storage, there are 3 common ones. B Key, M Key and combination (B+M/M+B).