Sata ports disabled

[PartyWire]

Hej, so a follow up with my last post about buying a new PC.

 

The PC had a MSI B450 Tomahawk Max in it. The PC works Flawlessly, Boots up practically instantly thanks to the m.2 SSD, but from the m.2 SSD starts the problem.

From what i read from the various pages online, the MSI B450 Tomahawk Max disables two of the 6Gb/s Sata ports of the 4 available to allow the m.2 to run. Now in all honesty, i do not care about the speed of the m.2. is there any way to buffer the m.2 speed so i get access to all of the 4 sata ports?

"Why do you need 4 sata ports?", Because i have a lot of data that needs to be stored and accessed at all times. If some recall from my last post, or have snooped at it already, i have a 1tb ssd and 4tb Hdd, which both are full of data. the new PC came with an extra 1tb, for me to fill up untill the time i recieve my next 4tb drive.

 

If anyone knows how to buffer the m.2 to get back 2 of the sata ports, i honestly don't care about speed that much, so it can be slower, boot times aswell, but i need the capacity.

[tkitch]

4 minutes ago, PartyWire said:

Hej, so a follow up with my last post about buying a new PC.

 

The PC had a MSI B450 Tomahawk Max in it. The PC works Flawlessly, Boots up practically instantly thanks to the m.2 SSD, but from the m.2 SSD starts the problem.

From what i read from the various pages online, the MSI B450 Tomahawk Max disables two of the 6Gb/s Sata ports of the 4 available to allow the m.2 to run. Now in all honesty, i do not care about the speed of the m.2. is there any way to buffer the m.2 speed so i get access to all of the 4 sata ports?

"Why do you need 4 sata ports?", Because i have a lot of data that needs to be stored and accessed at all times. If some recall from my last post, or have snooped at it already, i have a 1tb ssd and 4tb Hdd, which both are full of data. the new PC came with an extra 1tb, for me to fill up untill the time i recieve my next 4tb drive.

 

If anyone knows how to buffer the m.2 to get back 2 of the sata ports, i honestly don't care about speed that much, so it can be slower, boot times aswell, but i need the capacity.

usually it's only the second M.2 that causes that.  

 

The top x4 slot doesn't.

Alternatively you can just buy a cheap PCIE card for the m.2 and bypass it.

[Zagna]

The CPU has 20 PCIe lanes for connectivity. 16x for GPU and 4x for either NVMe or 2 SATA devices.

So if you use an NVMe M.2 via the CPU, those 2 SATA lanes are used up.

If you use a SATA M.2, one of the 2 SATA ports from the CPU can still be used.

You still have 4 SATA ports from the chipset.

[PartyWire]

13 minutes ago, tkitch said:

usually it's only the second M.2 that causes that.  

 

The top x4 slot doesn't.

Alternatively you can just buy a cheap PCIE card for the m.2 and bypass it.

The Mobo, only has one M.2 slot. attachment is the mobo i am talking about, it has 1 m.2 slot and 4 stat slots right behind the two PCIe 1x (i think that's what the smaller are called.) slots. andd i think i will buy the cheap adapter if there is no other option.

[PartyWire]

16 minutes ago, Zagna said:

So if you use an NVMe M.2 via the CPU, those 2 SATA lanes are used up.

If you use a SATA M.2, one of the 2 SATA ports from the CPU can still be used.

You still have 4 SATA ports from the chipset.

How the hell do i know if i have a NVMe or Sata M.2? by checking the M.2 Sticker?

[tkitch]

4 minutes ago, PartyWire said:

How the hell do i know if i have a NVMe or Sata M.2? by checking the M.2 Sticker?

what is your drive?

 

[PartyWire]

2 minutes ago, tkitch said:

what is your drive?

 

Just read off the Stricker, it's a Samsung 970 Evo Plus and it says NVMe right below it.

So, there is no getting the ports back with this drive huh.

Would The PCIe adapter bypass still work?

 

[Zagna]

11 minutes ago, PartyWire said:

The Mobo, only has one M.2 slot. attachment is the mobo i am talking about, it has 1 m.2 slot and 4 stat slots right behind the two PCIe 1x (i think that's what the smaller are called.) slots. andd i think i will buy the cheap adapter if there is no other option.

There's 6 SATA ports.

4 next to the chipset on the edge, 2 at the very bottom corner.

So the NVMe takes away 2, leaving you with 4.

[PartyWire]

Just now, Zagna said:

There's 6 SATA ports.

4 next on the edge, 2 at the very bottom corner.

Frick, i didn't even see tho ones at the bottom corner. they looked like some connectors for front io or something at a quick glance.