DataCenter SSDs and consumer hardware

Nowe · April 17, 2018

This is sort of an odd question as I have happened to come across an Intel DC P4500 PCIE AIC 4.0TB NVMe SSD and as such its obviously meant for more datacenter / server storage use. I decided to slap it into my system to try and see if I couldn't use it as my main storage device because I could completely replace my HDD in using it. I put it in the next closest PCIE x16 slot below the one my graphics card is in on the motherboard and it worked.... for a while. I got windows installed on it, my data transferred over and left my HDD for a backup just in case the SSD failed. It worked for a few days and for some reason I shut down the system one night and woke up the next morning and found the SSD was just suddenly no longer detected by my motherboard and I've tried other PCIE slots and I also tried different BIOS options for storage. The person I got it from is a good friend of mine who works in tech and sent the SSD to get tested and it was fine. Did it have to do with my hardware? Did it have to do with support for such a SSD? Just wondering why it would work in another system with other hardware but would also just randomly poof a few days after running on consumer hardware.

As a sidenote, the PCIE slot I put the SSD into did in fact work as I slotted my graphics card in it to see if it still worked.

The motherboard I used is a GIGABYTE AX370 Gaming K7 (rev 1.0)