Samsung 950 pro

[Warpheus]

Hi Guys,

 

i'm tempted to dump my Samsung 840 SSD and swap it for a Samsung 950 pro. Unfortunately my motherboard (MSI Z87-G43) doesn't have an M.2 slot. I know there are pcie to M.2 adapter cards, but i don't know which to pick. Also, might this adapter bottleneck the performance of the 950 pro?

 

Greetings

[JuztBe]

Hi Guys,

 

i'm tempted to dump my Samsung 840 SSD and swap it for a Samsung 950 pro. Unfortunately my motherboard (MSI Z87-G43) doesn't have an M.2 slot. I know there are pcie to M.2 adapter cards, but i don't know which to pick. Also, might this adapter bottleneck the performance of the 950 pro?

 

Greetings

Yes, even if using SATA to M.2 adapter(there is one?) you'll be bottlenecked by SATA speed.

I'm blind, my bad.

[daniellearmouth]

You would be better off finding an M.2 to PCIe adapter, since M.2 uses the PCIe bus.

 

I would also advise you to look into whether or not your board supports NVMe drives, as the Samsung 950 is an NVMe drive.

[exercutor5]

Yes, even if using SATA to M.2 adapter(there is one?) you'll be bottlenecked by SATA speed.

 

He means those M.2 to full length PCIe adapters, I think.

 

 

Hi Guys,

 

i'm tempted to dump my Samsung 840 SSD and swap it for a Samsung 950 pro. Unfortunately my motherboard (MSI Z87-G43) doesn't have an M.2 slot. I know there are pcie to M.2 adapter cards, but i don't know which to pick. Also, might this adapter bottleneck the performance of the 950 pro?

 

Greetings

 

The performance would not be affected by the adapter, but if it were to be bottlenecked in someway, it would be maybe because your board has a PCIe Gen 2 slot or something like that to bottleneck the performance of the SSD.

[Warpheus]

You would be better off finding an M.2 to PCIe adapter, since M.2 uses the PCIe bus.

 

I would also advise you to look into whether or not your board supports NVMe drives, as the Samsung 950 is an NVMe drive.

 

I can't find weather my board supports NVME, so i guess it doesn't. Or does it even matter if it supports that, since it is adapted to PCIE?

[Warpheus]

Ok my Board doesn't support NVME. IF only MSI got their s****it together an released a new BIOS it could be possible.

 

Thanks to everybody though.

[ewitte]

Its a very easy update for them I ended up modding my z87 BIOS to support it and I've never done so before.  I would expect someone that does it for a living could easily put up an update in like 5 minutes.