m.2

  1. Glitzy

    Storage Drive Missing

    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...
  2. Abandon Strings

    Advice on PCIe Lanes & NVME RAID arrays et al. for possible upgrade/new computer

    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...
  3. qbazdz

    intel Optane issues

    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...
  4. robgmun

    My experience upgrading my M.2 and Windows 11

    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...
  5. Quartz

    M.2 drives with light-sabre bling coolers

    A little bit of fun if you have £200 to spare! https://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-drives/simon-crisp/seagate-lightsaber-collection-special-edition-firecuda-2tb-ssd-review/
  6. Removed User 345456

    Humour me... 'Fast' PCI-E 4.0 drives...

    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...
  7. CillitBang

    Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming 7

    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...
  8. Ben May

    How many storage devices do I need?

    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.
  9. Ben May

    How Many Storage devices do I need in my pc?

    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.
  10. ShellShock

    Upgrading from SATA SSD to M.2

    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...
  11. hp7909

    SK hynix Gold P31 Low Speeds on New Build

    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...
  12. BigSykeDaddy

    Storage Question

    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...
  13. Devrij

    Second m.2 slot only does pcie2.0 x4 or sata?

    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...
  14. Fadi Obaji

    RAID 0 on Different NVME M.2s?

    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...
  15. arthurwellsley

    SSD up grade advice

    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...
  16. arconz

    Testing M.2 drive speed

    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.
  17. Alphrax

    Windows on a M.2 Drive

    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...
  18. Mr_Gamesmith

    M.2 Installation issues.

    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...
  19. DMZ

    Does the Gigabyte GC-WBAX210 have an M.2 card?

    I was going to get an AX210 M.2 module and a PCIe x1 adaptor, but I found the GC-WBAX210. Only thing is I haven't found for sure if it has a removable M.2 card. I'd like the versatility of an M.2 card.
  20. Mr Dan Dan

    Lightning Gen M.2

    I bought a M.2 when I purchased my MSI MPG X570 GAMING EDGE WI-FI motherboard but put it in the Lightning Gen M.2 slot instead of the normal one and it didn't work. I swapped it to the other slot and it works fine but my question is, where do I find a specific M.2 Lightning Gen drive as I'm...
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