Bifurcation? NVME storage upgrade for X370-F Gaming

[InvincibleMagus]

With some great sales on NVME prices with Amazon Prime sales, I'm looking at upgrading and replacing a bunch of my older 2.5 HD's and crappy "hybrid" drives.

 

What I'm looking to do is get 2 or 3 Samsung 980 Pros and put them in a M.2 X16 PCIe 4.0 X4 Expansion Card. 

 

Specs:

Mobo: Asus ROG Strix X370-F Gaming

CPU: AMD 5800X3D

 

The mobo has 3 PCIE_16 slots so I figure this ....should work in theory. 

Latest bios update, 6042. 

 

Currently on Windows 10 so I would probably do a upgrade to Windows 11 with this as well. 

 

I haven't found much definitive answers and I haven't yet found the option in BIOS to know where to change it to see.

 

Anyone have thoughts on if this would work?

 

Thanks for any information!

[Shimejii]

Don t buy PCIE 4.0 drives for 3.0 lanes. You will only be getting 3.0 speeds. 

 

I would just get decent teamgroup, SK Hynix, or a sabrent drive. they are all between 80-95$ for the 2 TB models. Honestly you should only need 2 at most if its just games.

[TrigrH]

22 minutes ago, InvincibleMagus said:

Anyone have thoughts on if this would work?

I wouldn't bother, just get two 4tb M.2 drives:

Put 1 in your only m.2 slot (for OS)

Put the other on a single slot pcie card.

Profit

 

And never have to worry about storage again.

[InvincibleMagus]

45 minutes ago, Shimejii said:

Don t buy PCIE 4.0 drives for 3.0 lanes. You will only be getting 3.0 speeds. 

 

I would just get decent teamgroup, SK Hynix, or a sabrent drive. they are all between 80-95$ for the 2 TB models. Honestly you should only need 2 at most if its just games.

its games plus digital work - Unreal Engine, 3D rendering, etc. 

Its probably 50/50 games since there's many games that are  ~100GB
 

I have looked at the 3.0s but if I upgrade, id rather have the speeds available.  and the 970s are currently only 10$ cheaper for 2TB (not that the other brands you mentioned arent good)

 

49 minutes ago, TrigrH said:

I wouldn't bother, just get two 4tb M.2 drives:

Put 1 in your only m.2 slot (for OS)

Put the other on a single slot pcie card.

Profit

 

And never have to worry about storage again.

yeah I've been thinking about just doing that too 

Still deciding what I wanna go with...

Thanks for the input Shimeji, TrigrH