NVMe on a PCIe SSD Adapter

Zeebedy

Zeebedy

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Going to use a slot on my motherboard with a PCIe Adapter I know I will lose speed doing this.. but will this still be fast enough as a game drive only.



Cheers guys!
 
I have this with multiple drives and PCIe slots. The ones in the PCIeX4 slots function at the same speed as the ones on the built in motherboard slots. The ones in the PCIeX3 slots are obviously slower. Mine is a glotrends PCIe card.

GLOTRENDS PA09-HS NVMe to PCIe 4.0 X4 Adapter with M.2 Heatsink for NVMe 2280/2260/2242/2230 SSD​


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It depends on the adapter and which slot you use, you have to be careful about lane sharing.

Assuming the slot has 4 lanes and matches the PCI-E gen, then you should lose very little performance compared to a board slot.
 
Zeebedy said:
cheers guys, I was looking at a single slot NVMe adapter, its going to be a single 4tb for game storage..
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I just ran a few crystal disk tests and I have a 4tb WDSN50x connected to the above adaptor and it is within a few % same speed as the Samsung 980 Pro 2tb in the native M2 slot. Read and write is about 6,800 MB/s

Just make sure you check that you use a PCIe4 slot (my motherboard has older PCIe3 slots as well).

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rp2000
 
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hmm. i have a pre-built so apart from the fact its a MSI mobo, im not sure on the spec..its a decent connectivity looking mobo, so hopefully the slot under the GPU is PCIe4?
 
Zeebedy said:
hmm. i have a pre-built so apart from the fact its a MSI mobo, im not sure on the spec..its a decent connectivity looking mobo, so hopefully the slot under the GPU is PCIe4?
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Mine's a prebuilt (Lenovo) desktop. All the big manufacturers will have tech specs in a pdf on their website for every model they sell!

Edit: Might even be printed directly on the PCB next to the slots.


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Zeebedy said:
hmm. i have a pre-built so apart from the fact its a MSI mobo, im not sure on the spec..its a decent connectivity looking mobo, so hopefully the slot under the GPU is PCIe4?
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I'd recommend that you check that carefully before purchase. For example: many full-size (physically 16 lane) slots are in fact just 1 lane electrically.
 
Tetras said:
I'd recommend that you check that carefully before purchase. For example: many full-size (physically 16 lane) slots are in fact just 1 lane electrically.
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OK, i will do that. I know its a AM5 MSI Pro Series motherboard. SO will look into it!
 
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