Dual M.2 Drives

skeletonw00t · 23 Feb 2017 at 20:07

Hi,

I have this motherboard -

http://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-Z97X-Gaming-7-rev-10#ov

It has 2 M.2 slots, but I was wondering if I can actually use both of them at the same time & still get the good speeds?

Is this possible?

Thanks

Dirk Diggler · 23 Feb 2017 at 20:14

I can only see one slot.

Spec says:

Chipset:

1 x M.2 PCIe connector
(Socket 3, M key, type 2242/2260/2280 SATA & PCIe SSD support)

skeletonw00t · 23 Feb 2017 at 20:35

damn, sorry - linked the wrong one. It's this:

http://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-Z170X-Gaming-7-rev-10#ov

Dirk Diggler · 23 Feb 2017 at 20:46

skeletonw00t said:
damn, sorry - linked the wrong one. It's this:

http://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-Z170X-Gaming-7-rev-10#ov

Page 31 of the manual says RAID is supported, so it seems so?

skeletonw00t · 23 Feb 2017 at 22:09

i dont want to run it in RAID though - just run them as 2 seperate drives... is that ok?

orbitalwalsh · 24 Feb 2017 at 08:00

All fine , may make one or two sata ports redundant . manual should say, or the 3rd PCIe 3.0 slot at the bottom redundant

skeletonw00t · 24 Feb 2017 at 12:46

Sweet.

Will buy another at some point then for more games