M.2 SSD Lanes?

[Busconian]

Right now I have a 2TB WD Green for mass storage and a 120gb SSD for Windows, Photoshop etc...  My buddy is gonna upgrade his macbooks SSD which is a NVMe one to a new one with more storage. So I will probably get his old one for dirt cheap.

 

Anyways, I have an i5 6400 and I was wondering what would happen if I put in the SSD in my system. I have the correct slot on my motherboard and everything. Can I just put it in and then working no problem?

[rn8686]

Would work fine, just make sure it is a PCI-E slot and not just Sata. 

[Busconian]

4 minutes ago, rn8686 said:

Would work fine, just make sure it is a PCI-E slot and not just Sata. 

It's PCIE/NVMe all of it

[Changis]

19 minutes ago, Busconian said:

Right now I have a 2TB WD Green for mass storage and a 120gb SSD for Windows, Photoshop etc...  My buddy is gonna upgrade his macbooks SSD which is a NVMe one to a new one with more storage. So I will probably get his old one for dirt cheap.

 

Anyways, I have an i5 6400 and I was wondering what would happen if I put in the SSD in my system. I have the correct slot on my motherboard and everything. Can I just put it in and then working no problem?

apple nvme? you'll need an adapter if its XM11 which most (if not all) macbooks use (that has ssd)
it will fit but won't work in a m.2 slot.. 

putting it in will probably disable 1 or 2 sata lanes

[Busconian]

12 hours ago, Changis said:

apple nvme? you'll need an adapter if its XM11 which most (if not all) macbooks use (that has ssd)
it will fit but won't work in a m.2 slot.. 

putting it in will probably disable 1 or 2 sata lanes

What do you mean by "disable 1 or 2 sata lanes" 

[PrimeSonic]

19 minutes ago, Busconian said:

What do you mean by "disable 1 or 2 sata lanes" 

Check your motherboard manual.

 

In many cases, connecting an M.2 NVMe SSD will actually disable 1 or 2 SATA connectors.

 

History lesson:

Before NVMe, the SATA Express standard was developed and widely adopted by motherboard manufacturers.

SATA Express offered 110 Gb/s speeds and promised to alleviate the SATA bottleneck while also being backwards compatible as two regular SATA connectors.

Problem: the connectors would have been so big and bulky that no SSDs ever came out that took advantage of SATA Express.

 

Enter NVMe and the much smaller M.2 form factor. Same speeds and in a size that people could stomach.

Motherboard manufacturers were already prepared for these speeds since SATA Express.

They could easily repurpose the PCIe lanes that would be getting used by SATA Express for NVMe.

 

So, when you connecte an M.2 NVMe SSD into one of these motherboards, it actually takes over the SATA Express connection, effectively disabling the physical SATA connectors that SATA Express would have run on.

This means you can't use the SATA ports that were part of that SATA Express connection.

 

You'll notice a SATA Express connector looking like "two SATA and a half" ports side by side lengthwise.

 

Again, check your motherboard manual for specifics.

My motherboard does all this I mentioned. I don't use regular SATA drives anymore but if I wanted to, I would be limited to using the SATA ports that weren't part of the SATA Express connection.

 

[Mira Yurizaki]

13 hours ago, Busconian said:

Right now I have a 2TB WD Green for mass storage and a 120gb SSD for Windows, Photoshop etc...  My buddy is gonna upgrade his macbooks SSD which is a NVMe one to a new one with more storage. So I will probably get his old one for dirt cheap.

 

Anyways, I have an i5 6400 and I was wondering what would happen if I put in the SSD in my system. I have the correct slot on my motherboard and everything. Can I just put it in and then working no problem?

If it's from an Apple computer, chances are it won't work on a PC because Apple stubbornly keeps using their proprietary interface.

[Changis]

 

25 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

If it's from an Apple computer, chances are it won't work on a PC because Apple stubbornly keeps using their proprietary interface.

it's most likely a XM11 connector SSD, not propitetary, but so little used it might as well be.. only heard of the asus ux3* laptops using the same type connector.. though apple may have wired their connectors differently to make it propietary

[Busconian]

23 minutes ago, Changis said:

 

it's most likely a XM11 connector SSD, not propitetary, but so little used it might as well be.. only heard of the asus ux3* laptops using the same type connector.. though apple may have wired their connectors differently to make it propietary

It is a older macbook (I think 2015) and the SSD he is gonna buy is compatible with my PC and his Mac. So?