m.2

hello the forum,hope everyone is well just a quick piece of advice regarding the size of the retension screw for the M.2 on the board in the title,seem to have missplaced my screw and started a build only to come up short when attempting to add the SSD into the slot...so build on hold until i...

I tried to add a 4 TB M.2 drive to my PC. To do this I needed to remove my GPU to get access to install the standoff. The GPU release tab broke and in doing so must have broken some of the PCIe traces because none of the PCIe slots worked thereafter. Fortunately I had a spare motherboard to...

Hello, I hope you guys can help me As of right now I have 2 Hard Drives installed as well as an SSD for Windows. I recently bought an M.2 Drive but once I have it installed into my PC and boot it up, I am instantly sent to BIOS. When my M.2 Drive is installed into my PC, the SSD with Windows...

Current Motherboard / CPU: AsRock x79 Extreme 6 / Intel i7 3930k Option 1: Biostar B550GTA / AMD Ryzen 9 3900x or 5900x Option 2: ASUS ProArt X670E-Creator / AMD Ryzen 9 7900x (Open to other options - can explain choices further if asked) Hi, whilst I'm not new to building PCs, I am a bit...

Hi, I've been having some hard time with my old m.2 SSD in a laptop and I'm mainly looking to recover data from it. However, I've got some weird behaviour I can't quite explain myself so hope someone can help. 1. Currently have a boot issue with the 'critical process died' BSOD and all other...

Hi Guys. I was previously rocking a WD SN750 Gen 3 2Tb drive and it was rock solid and it had a decent snappy feeling in Windows 10. Unfortunately, I had to upgrade because I needed a local 4Tb drive for video editing, etc. Now the motherboard is only Gen 3 there's not a great deal in the way of...

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Right so TLDR, building my first rig since a 2008 era q66 stepping 1st gen quad core... I've had mac's since but all are circa 2008-2012 retrofitted with sata3 ssd's... This will be my first 'modern' pc with a m.2... I've got a B550m pci-e 4.0 m.2 motherboard... Now I was going to splash out...

Hello, I have a Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming 7 motherboard and wanting to utilise both M.2 ports on the board. It states in the manual that it will loose the usage of some sata ports if I use one or the other M.2 port, but no information if I use both? One NVME drive will be for the OS the other for...

Hi I am looking to build a new pc and the only thing I am stuck on is whether one m.2 SSD (512gb) is enough. I do also have a 1TB external hard drive. Thanks.

Hi I am looking to build a new pc and the only thing I am stuck on is whether one m.2 SSD (512gb) is enough. I do also have a 1TB external hard drive. Thanks.

I currently have a Samsung 1 TB SSD 840 EVO SATA, which I use as my Windows 10 drive and for data (games etc). Some of the games lag a bit on disk I/O (saves etc), so I was wondering about getting a faster (2 TB) drive, but I don't know much about M.2. My motherboard is a Gigabyte Z370-HD3...

Hi, getting low speeds with SK hynix Gold P31 on a new AMD Ryzen build... Specs: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G Gigabyte B550M Aorus Pro 16GB (2 x 8GB) Team T-FORCE VULCAN Z DDR4 3200 1 x 500GB SK hynix Gold P31 NVMe M.2 SSD 1 x 500GB SK hynix Gold S31 SATA SSD 2 x 2TB Western Digital Green WD20EZRX SATA...

Hello, I hope everyone is doing well this evening! (or whatever time zone you're in). Quick question (I haven't built a new machine in 10 years): I purchased a Samsung 980 Pro 2TB M.2 to use as my main drive and 2x 16TB HDDs to run in Raid 1. I was watching a video the other day and I saw...

So I am looking to put a 2TB SSD in to replace my 1TB HDD that holds all my games. I have a 1TB Samsung m.2 in the main slot as my OS drive, so I'm left with a rubbish m.2 slot that only does pcie 2.0 x4 or sata and disables one of the sata ports in the process (NB all my data ports are...

I have Samsung 980 PRO 1TB and I want to buy Corsair MP600 PRO XT 1TB and use RAID 0 to get double the speed. However these two have different speeds 980 PRO: 7 GB / 5.1 GB Corsair XT: 7.1 GB / 6.8 GB Can i RAID 0 them together and get double the speed of 980 PRO? or they have to be exactly...

I have an Asus Z170 pro gaming motherboard. Samsung SSD 850 Evo at 250gb in it with Windows (10 pro) on it and Office. An HDD at 1TB. With a few other bits and pieces on it. (ST2000DM001-1ER164) Intel Core i7-6700k CPU @ 4.00GHz. 16gb RAM I either want to replace the Samsung (which means I need...

Hi all - sorry if this is a noob question but what's the best utility to test read/write speed that isn't just copying files in windows? My new rig has 2 Samsung Pro Gen 4.0 M.2 drives and I want to make sure they are running optimally.

Hey guys, So I'm going to be building a new PC in a couple of weeks, my current PC runs on Windows 10 Home edition. I'm going to be changing out my storage as part of this upgrade, going with a nice gen 4 m.2 drive. I don't want to purchase windows again, so what I'm thinking of doing is...

Hello All! My wife recently came in to possession of a Kingston A400 M.2 SSD, when we installed it on to her mother board and attempted startup the PC got stuck in an initial boot loop and then booted to the BIOS, where we discovered that the PC was not picking up the SSD that she has...