M.2 PCIe Adapter Cards

[TheRepoMan]

I have a older mobo that does not have m.2 options on it. 

I've looked at PCIe cards, and found a 'cheap' Silverstone 2 slot to test with. One draw back of this card is it allows for 1 m.2 and 1 sata m.2.

I'm looking for more slot options, and found the Asus Hyper M.2 X16 PCIe 3.0 X4 Expansion Card V2 that has 4 slots. It saw the 1tb m.2 but not the 2nd 2tb m.2. Would this board just not see anything bigger than 1tb or am I doing something wrong?

[Poinkachu]

17 minutes ago, TheRepoMan said:

I have a older mobo that does not have m.2 options on it. 

I've looked at PCIe cards, and found a 'cheap' Silverstone 2 slot to test with. One draw back of this card is it allows for 1 m.2 and 1 sata m.2.

I'm looking for more slot options, and found the Asus Hyper M.2 X16 PCIe 3.0 X4 Expansion Card V2 that has 4 slots. It saw the 1tb m.2 but not the 2nd 2tb m.2. Would this board just not see anything bigger than 1tb or am I doing something wrong?

Have you tried putting the 2tb on other available slot ?
 

try this
https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/how-to-set-2-ssd-in-asus-hyper-m-2-x16-card-v2.3690559/

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 hour ago, TheRepoMan said:

I have a older mobo that does not have m.2 options on it. 

what board?

 

Any size of m.2 ssd should work, but you need pcie bifurcation to use those crads, and most older boards don't support that. If you have a older system, I'd just get sata ssds.

[TheRepoMan]

2 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

what board?

 

Any size of m.2 ssd should work, but you need pcie bifurcation to use those crads, and most older boards don't support that. If you have a older system, I'd just get sata ssds.

Asus P9X79 LE

It's a older board, but its a test between myself and another to see if it can be done.

[Electronics Wizardy]

4 minutes ago, TheRepoMan said:

Asus P9X79 LE

It's a older board, but its a test between myself and another to see if it can be done.

Yea that card won't work on that board as it doesn't support pcie bifurcation. You need a board with pcie bifurcation to use those 4x cards.

 

Otherwise you can use the much more expensive m.2 adapters with a pcie switch on board.

[TheRepoMan]

21 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Yea that card won't work on that board as it doesn't support pcie bifurcation. You need a board with pcie bifurcation to use those 4x cards.

 

Otherwise you can use the much more expensive m.2 adapters with a pcie switch on board.

Thanks for the confirmation, I was saying the same but my mate kept saying otherwise :-)