Booting on a NVME SSD on a PCIe to M.2 adapter on an A320 Motherboard with no native M.2 slot.

[Michael]

I wonder if it'll work because some of the motherboard with this kind of chipset do have m.2 slot, and m.2 slot is just basically a pcie but in a different form, right?

 

I particularly have the MSI A320M-A Pro which don't have m.2 slot. 

[Dedayog]

6 minutes ago, Michael said:

I wonder if it'll work because some of the motherboard with this kind of chipset do have m.2 slot, and m.2 slot is just basically a pcie but in a different form, right?

 

I particularly have the MSI A320M-A Pro which don't have m.2 slot. 

It may work with some fiddling.

 

I don't understand why not just use a SATA SSD?

[Michael]

4 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

It may work with some fiddling.

 

I don't understand why not just use a SATA SSD?

I'm planning to carry over the nvme ssd to my next system which will include a much fancier motherboard.

[Dedayog]

20 minutes ago, Michael said:

I'm planning to carry over the nvme ssd to my next system which will include a much fancier motherboard.

You can still use the SATA SSD in the new system.   I use SATA SSD"s in my 9900k/1080Ti system, for example.  NVMe drives are NOT noticeably better.

 

When is this next system going to be built?

[Michael]

3 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

You can still use the SATA SSD in the new system.   I use SATA SSD"s in my 9900k/1080Ti system, for example.

 

When is this next system going to be built?

Yes I know, I can use a SATA SSD pretty much any motherboard with SATA port.  I just preferred not to have another cable and the benefit of having fast read and write speeds of NVME SSD. I'm currently eyeing for a B550 or X570 motherboard which have heaps of m.2 slots. I might be also considering a compact ITX build which may introduce a problem if I have a 2.5" drive if I use a very small case.

[Dedayog]

8 minutes ago, Michael said:

Yes I know, I can use a SATA SSD pretty much any motherboard with SATA port.  I just preferred not to have another cable and the benefit of having fast read and write speeds of NVME SSD. I'm currently eyeing for a B550 or X570 motherboard which have heaps of m.2 slots. I might be also considering a compact ITX build which may introduce a problem if I have a 2.5" drive if I use a very small case.

Sure, I get not liking cabliing.

 

But this is incorrect:

 

"the benefit of having fast read and write speeds of NVME SSD. "

 

NVMe does not produce that benefit in real world usage and stopwatch timing.  

 

But your idea should work, may need some BIOS tweaking or playing around to get it to see the addon card.  Best of luck.

[kokosnh]

We do not know. They could have cut it out, to save some space in size.

if they are reusing other UEFi from other mobo they, it will just work. And yes, the M.2 is basically the same logic as PCIe slot.

[Michael]

1 hour ago, kokosnh said:

We do not know. They could have cut it out, to save some space in size.

if they are reusing other UEFi from other mobo they, it will just work. And yes, the M.2 is basically the same logic as PCIe slot.

Upon researching further, the clue that I've got is I found that theres a version of this kinda same mobo with m.2 slot, the a320-a pro m2 and upon looking on it's bios download, the nomenclature of the bios is kinda same too with the bios on a320-a pro "non - m2"(the mobo that I have) so there's really a chance that it may really work, I guess?

[kokosnh]

Yes, i'm guessing it will 99% work just fine.