Storage Drives Confussion

[Cosmin17]

Hello everyone!

 

I'm thinking of buying an SSD M.2, but I do not know if I'll go with my HDD.

 

I decided to go on a WD (WDS240G1G0B) because I do not need something better.

 

* From what I hear, if I use a SSD M.2, It will deactivate my SATA ports. This is true?

 

* I want to use these two storage drives together (SSD M.2 and HDD).

 

I have a SATA HDD from Seagate. I'm happy with him and I do not want to get him out.

Mobo: MSI B250M Bazooka
SSD M.2: WDS240G1G0B
HDD: Seagate
CPU: i3 7100

Phone: OnePlus 3T

[thelordofwarr]

1. No using an M.2 won't disable your SATA ports 

 

2. Yes you can use them together, either by just initialyzing the M.2 as another drive, or installing an OS of you choice on it

 

Hope this Helps

Edited February 25, 2018 by thelordofwarr

[Electronics Wizardy]

Id go mx500 or 860 evo. Better drives, about the same price. And m.2 isn't any faster here, this is a sata drive.

 

Yeo you will have a disabled m.2 drive

 

your hdd will still work fine.

 

On 2/25/2018 at 1:17 PM, thelordofwarr said:

1. No using an M.2 won't disable your sata ports

 

2. Yes you can use them together, either by just initialyzing the M.2 as another driver, or installing an Os of you choice on it

 

Hope this Helps

1. Yea it will look under m.2 here https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130987

 

They share hsio lanes

[thelordofwarr]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

1. Yea it will look under m.2 here https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130987

 

They share hsio lanes

Yeah , sry didn't see that, but it only diables the SATA1 port "* The SATA1 port will be unavailable when an M.2 SATA SSD module has been installed in the M.2 slot." so he still use the orther 5

[Cosmin17]

In bios you can select only one controller: ahci or ide.

 

M.2 uses AHCI and HDD uses IDE.

 

This means, that an m.2 ssd won't work with an hdd right?

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, Cosmin17 said:

In bios you can select only one controller: ahci or ide.

 

M.2 uses AHCI and HDD uses IDE.

 

This means, that an m.2 ssd won't work with an hdd right?

it will work.

[Cosmin17]

So port 1 will be disabled, and I'll have to connect my HDD to the SATA port 2.

Okay. Thanks! ?

[demonix00]

The specifications state that only one SATA port will be disabled, but that is only if a SATA M.2 SSD is installed so an NVMe M.2 SSD won't disable the port.