Additional SSDs

sjp1966

sjp1966

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I currently have a PC that i bought in maybe 2018, added an RX6600 graphics card and has 32gb RAM, however the HDD I have are mainly older spinning drives. I do have a low storage SSD which the OS is on. so I was thinking of something like this https://www.overclockers.co.uk/axag...x-m.2-sata-with-passive-coolin-cc-006-ax.html to add SSD storage to it so i can get more up to date games. Ive not used one of these things before and wondered on the plus and minus points with them, ive a gigabyte Z390 Mobo in the system, any advise would be appreciated
 
Gray2233 said:
Do you know how many M.2 slots you have populated? I'm assuming at least one, the board should have a second but knowing the exact model of the motherboard would help.

Shy of that, you should have free SATA slots too and SATA SSD's are cheap as chips.

A PCI-E NvME adapter is a solution but it might not be one that's necessary if you've a free NvME supporting M.2 slot (no, not all do and some are SATA only).
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As far as I can tell there is 1 SSD slot on to tMobo which has the OS SSD on it, so i cannot use that, i was thinking that i could use an adaptor in a PCIe slot
 
hornetstinger said:
I used a Akasa PCI-E to NVE adaptor to add a nvme drive to a older Intel 1366 system.Worked fine, couldn't boot off from it so it was used as a secondary drive for games. It's a single NVME not like like that double NVME and SATA
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thats like what i need, dont want to boot from it but want to run games from it/them
 
Gray2233 said:
It very much depends on the choice of drive, cherry picking being your forte I'm going to ignore the above mate, especially considering it's a secondary drive.

All of the Gigabyte Z390 boards I've looked at have two M.2 slots, can you please verify the exact model you have?
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System information says Z390 US, Gigabyte board, not sure where else to look to be honest, if it does have 2 that would be awesome
 
Gray2233 said:
Try running the following and checking the mainboard option, we need the model number/reference:

www.cpuid.com

CPU-Z | Softwares | CPUID

CPU-Z for Windows® x86/x64 is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system : Processor name and number, codename, process, package, cache levels. Mainboard and chipset. Memory type, size, timings, and module specifications (SPD). Real time...
www.cpuid.com www.cpuid.com

It should tell you what drives you're running too, if you can check your Windows > This PC > and tell us how many drives are showing.
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Thanks for that, the drive info under this PC > Windows just shows the C drive (SSD) and 2 x other drives which are not SSD, doesnt shows models/make etc

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pastymuncher said:
Just a single M2 socket 3, M key then, presumably pci-e 3.0. I would probably buy a single 2Tb or more pci-e 3.0 M2 drive and partition it so you have your OS on a smallish partition and have your games and other stuff on the larger partition. No messing around with pci-e cards and much faster than plugging in a sata SSD as well.
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Thanks, yeah i can only see a single SSD slot. What I am thinking is upgraging my PC with as new one and using the old one basically as a hard drive caddy so i have set up my Music and Movies as a media server.
 
on the gigabyte website if i type in Z390UD there are 3 versions. Pretty sure mine is UD(1.0) which states 1 x m.2. to be fair even the V2 says 1 x m.2. How can I check the version number, when i open the case the graphics card covers anything past the UD message so cann see the version (and id rather not take the card out) CPUID doesnt seem to say the version is there any other app that would tell me
 
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dont have the box sadly, its either 1.0 or 1.1 as the v2 only has BIOS version up to F3 and im already passed that, i ll see if i can find the serial number
 
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