The possibility of an M.2 on an old Asus z87-k motherboard

[NGODK]

Hello

(for clarity: 1) I am a complete novice when it comes to building a computer. 2) I have an old prebuilt computer)

I recently noticed that my old HDD has begun showing wear (bad noises on spin-up), and a recent SMART check has shown a couple of bad sectors, in comes my question/recommendation request, I found out that I could buy a 1TB M.2 SSD cheaper than a 1TB Seagate HDD (Seagate is the only HDD manufacture that I "know" is trustworthy) but my z87-k motherboard does not support M.2, so I was wondering if I could use an adapter (M.2 to SATA) to use the SSD? Is it a dumb idea? what would you recommend?

 

I am not expecting any speed benefit, nor will I use the M.2 as my boot drive, I just saw that the M.2 is cheaper, granted an adapter would make it more expensive but I hope to build a new computer in the near future, and I suspect an SSD is more reliable with a longer lifespan because of no moving parts.

 

Thanks in advance.

[Needfuldoer]

That should work, and even be bootable. I’ve put NVMe SSDs into Haswell PCs with PCIe adapters before, they worked just the same as if they were in a native M.2 slot. 

 

They’ll work as storage devices as far back as PCIe exists, but Ivy Bridge and older can’t boot off NVMe directly. (You have to chain-load through a bootloader like Clover.)