Any way to use my M.2 SSD on a SATA motherbaord?

[Diano]

If you have a GPU installed
It may be blocking the m2 slot from view
It's just above the GPU slot and just below the CPU socket
The user manual says it supports both pcie and sata m2 drive

Thank you.
Here is the Q170M2 manual. Is yours the same one?

Acer scammed you, that's SATA SSD, which would have been as fast as 2.5" drive in end of SATA cable.

While that would fit into mobo (M.2 mode needs to be set to SATA in BIOS) really wouldn't waste only M.2 slot for some secondary SATA drive.
There are USB enclosures for both SATA and PCIe M.2 drives which cna be used to access drives.
https://www.akasa.com.tw/update.php?tpl=product/product.detail.tpl&no=181&type=Enclosures&type_sub=SSD Accessories&model=AK-ENU3M2-04

Can my SSD be put on an adapter card similar as this one and insert the adapter card into PCIEX1_1 on Asus Q170M2 board ?

 

[Diano]

Acer scammed you, that's SATA SSD, which would have been as fast as 2.5" drive in end of SATA cable.

While that would fit into mobo (M.2 mode needs to be set to SATA in BIOS) really wouldn't waste only M.2 slot for some secondary SATA drive.
There are USB enclosures for both SATA and PCIe M.2 drives which cna be used to access drives.
https://www.akasa.com.tw/update.php?tpl=product/product.detail.tpl&no=181&type=Enclosures&type_sub=SSD Accessories&model=AK-ENU3M2-04

thanks.

Can my SSD be put on a converter or adapter similar like this and then insert the converter into PCIex1_1 slot on Asus Q170M2 motherboard?

 

[VersionMonkey]

thanks.

Can my SSD be put on a converter or adapter similar like this and then insert the converter into PCIex1_1 slot on Asus Q170M2 motherboard?

That looks to be a SATA adapter - it doesn't go into a PCIe slot, you use a SATA cable to connect it to a SATA port, same as with a normal drive. You'd also need a SATA power cable for it.

As it seems your M.2 SSD uses SATA signalling, that would probably work.

 

[EsaT]

Can my SSD be put on a converter or adapter similar like this and then insert the converter into PCIex1_1 slot on Asus Q170M2 motherboard?

You can't ever put SATA drive into PCIe.
Unless you put SATA controller there first.

Again that adapter in picture is passive adapter just making that M.2 SATA SSD compatible with normal SATA data and power cable.

 

[Diano]

sorry wrong pic ... m.2 position on mobo?

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. REALLY APPRECIATE.

Yes, the Q170M2 that the repair shop installed on my PC is the same Q170M2, but it has been re-modeled, taking out of the part in the red circle`. And the work is so professional that no one can tell without comparison.

The repair shop installed a SATA SSD, bout 5cm x 9cm x 1cm, linking from one of the SATA ports to the location of SATA3, next to the SATA3 hard drive.

Again, thank you.

 

[Diano]

That looks to be a SATA adapter - it doesn't go into a PCIe slot, you use a SATA cable to connect it to a SATA port, same as with a normal drive. You'd also need a SATA power cable for it.
As it seems your M.2 SSD uses SATA signalling, that would probably work.

Thank you.

Yes, this is what I am going to do, install a SATA adapter.

 

[Diano]

You can't ever put SATA drive into PCIe.
Unless you put SATA controller there first.
Again that adapter in picture is passive adapter just making that M.2 SATA SSD compatible with normal SATA data and power cable.

Thank you.

No. I am not going to use a PCIe adapter. Will use a SATA adapter for my SATA SSD.