Is it ever possible to make this work with this motherboard?

[ImInHugeTrouble]

I bought a second hand ssd but I didn't know that It was m.2 form factor I thought it was a regular 2.5 ssd. I wonder if this will work with asus p5q turbo motherboard?

 

 

[Sir Asvald]

No it won't work. You've got an old motherboard.. really old one..

 

Edit: unless you get a pcie adapter card for it. 

[Joshcanread]

no you should really be checking the specs before just purchasing something like this only sata ssd's

[comicsansms]

It's an AHCI drive, you can buy an adaptor to convert it to a standard SATA interface.

[EthanCoow]

13 minutes ago, ImInHugeTrouble said:

I bought a second hand ssd but I didn't know that It was m.2 form factor I thought it was a regular 2.5 ssd. I wonder if this will work with asus p5q turbo motherboar

It won't work unless you get a cheap m.2 SATA to PCI-e adapter. Those don't cost much.

[Zagna]

There are really cheap M.2 to 2.5" adapters like SODIAL M.2 NGFF (SATA) SSD to 2.5 inch SATA Adapter, under 4$.

[ImInHugeTrouble]

19 minutes ago, Zagna said:

There are really cheap M.2 to 2.5" adapters like SODIAL M.2 NGFF (SATA) SSD to 2.5 inch SATA Adapter, under 4$.

Thanks, will it run at full 500mbps speed?

[Zagna]

2 minutes ago, ImInHugeTrouble said:

Thanks, will it run at full 500mbps speed?

It's just a simple form factor adapter, it will run at SATA 6Gbit/s if the motherboard supports it.

[williamcll]

12 minutes ago, ImInHugeTrouble said:

Thanks, will it run at full 500MB/s speed?

yes

[comicsansms]

1 hour ago, Abdul201588 said:

No it won't work. You've got an old motherboard.. really old one..

 

Edit: unless you get a pcie adapter card for it. 

1 hour ago, EthanCoow said:

It won't work unless you get a cheap m.2 SATA to PCI-e adapter. Those don't cost much.

No. That's like buying a mini displayport to HDMI adaptor, so you can plug your thunderbolt 2 HDD into your computer.

 

Just because some devices with an M.2 slot use the PCIe protocol, doesn't mean they all do. M.2 is designed to supersede mSATA, as well as provide a compact interface for PCIe express SSDs. And due to that, it uses 2 protocols - AHCI (What is used by SATA) and PCIe. The WD Green SSD is an AHCI drive - it can be adapted to any AHCI interface - that being SATA or mSATA and CANNOT be passively adapted to PCIe.

[ImInHugeTrouble]

I just wanted to make sure of this again, will this m.2 work as windows 10 boot drive if I use it with m.2 to sata 2.5 ssd adapter?

[Zagna]

1 hour ago, ImInHugeTrouble said:

I just wanted to make sure of this again, will this m.2 work as windows 10 boot drive if I use it with m.2 to sata 2.5 ssd adapter?

Yes, it is just a standard sata drive.