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Can boot via m.2 on my asus z97-k motherboard

I have an old motherboard asus z97-k R2.0 and it has a built-in M.2 socket on it , and im planning on reviving this system. The exact ssd im going to use is the "samsung ssd 970 evo plus" .

 

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I do not want to buy a 3.5inch ssd drive, so i was wondering if this would work natively?

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From zooming through the manual (here), it seems it should work with an NVMe drive for boot, will disable two SATA ports though. Also, that slot is 10gb/s which works out to PCIe 2.0 x2. The 970 Evo Plus is a PCIe 3.0 x4 drive so you won't get near the full speed out of it, but it will work. 

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15 minutes ago, JakeQuinn said:

The exact ssd im going to use is the "samsung ssd 970 evo plus" .

The 970 Evo plus is a pretty expensive M.2 SSD.

 

Far as I'm aware, any NVMe SSD will work on a Z97 motherboard. I suggest a less expensive one because the bandwidth of these older M.2 slots is cut due to older technology.

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4 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

The 970 Evo plus is a pretty expensive M.2 SSD.

 

Far as I'm aware, any NVMe SSD will work on a Z97 motherboard. I suggest a less expensive one because the bandwidth of these older M.2 slots is cut due to older technology.

Some Z97 boards had NVMe support. The big thing is getting a drive that's on the QVL list for that board, since it was a new technology at the time and with all new technologies, it was finicky.

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13 hours ago, Zando_ said:

From zooming through the manual (here), it seems it should work with an NVMe drive for boot, will disable two SATA ports though. Also, that slot is 10gb/s which works out to PCIe 2.0 x2. The 970 Evo Plus is a PCIe 3.0 x4 drive so you won't get near the full speed out of it, but it will work. 

 

I also happen to have a NVME to PCIe adaptor lying around from silverstone if i use that will i be able to use the full speed?

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5 hours ago, JakeQuinn said:

 

I also happen to have a NVME to PCIe adaptor lying around from silverstone if i use that will i be able to use the full speed?

I don't think so. The second main PCIe slot runs PCIe 2.0 x4 if you put a card in, assuming I'm reading the manual right. The rest of the slots are PCI 2.0 as well, only the main one seems to run 3.0. So at best you'll get half the bandwidth out of your SSD (PCIe 2.0 x4 is equivalent to PCIe 3.0 x2). Still very fast, but not the full performance out of that SSD. 

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2 hours ago, Zando_ said:

I don't think so. The second main PCIe slot runs PCIe 2.0 x4 if you put a card in, assuming I'm reading the manual right. The rest of the slots are PCI 2.0 as well, only the main one seems to run 3.0. So at best you'll get half the bandwidth out of your SSD (PCIe 2.0 x4 is equivalent to PCIe 3.0 x2). Still very fast, but not the full performance out of that SSD. 

Im not really after the speed, but might as well given the option. So there is only 1 PCIe 3.0, the main one, and since im not using a grpahics card for this system, ill get the full nvme speed at the main slot right?

 

If it does work and in the future i will decide to get a GPU i can always move the adaptor to the another slot , i doubt 2.0 and 3.0 speed matters for this old of a system.

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4 minutes ago, JakeQuinn said:

Im not really after the speed, but might as well given the option. So there is only 1 PCIe 3.0, the main one, and since im not using a grpahics card for this system, ill get the full nvme speed at the main slot right?

Should do yeah. 

5 minutes ago, JakeQuinn said:

If it does work and in the future i will decide to get a GPU i can always move the adaptor to the another slot , i doubt 2.0 and 3.0 speed matters for this old of a system.

For everyday use, yeah it will not be a noticeable difference. I doubt you'd be doing something like heavy video editing (that actually benefits from the full speed of these drives) on a system this old. 

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