Fitting MVME drive - Help required...

Darujhistan

Darujhistan

Darujhistan

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So, I bought this

www.westerndigital.com

WD Blue SN570 NVMe™ SSD | Western Digital

Stay in the moment and create beyond your expectations with the WD Blue SN570 NVMe SSD. This powerful internal drive delivers up to 5X the speed of our best SATA SSDs so you can let your imagination flow and worry less about PC lag or load times.
www.westerndigital.com www.westerndigital.com

To go on this MB (drive slot above GPU, there's another one but covered by GPU)


(PLS take a look at manual document).

Unfortunately the drive will only fit into slot with the circuitry facing away from the mobo, so it looks like I have bought the wrong drive...

If so, can anyone spec me a 2TB NVME that will fit my mobo. Thanks.
 
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I believe all NVMe drives have the circuitry on the same side, so it can only go in one way. What's stopping it from going in the correct way?
 
From what I can see, you have two M.2 slots, one is right at the bottom of the board, below the second full length PCI-E slot, the other slot is underneath a heatsink, above the first full length PCI-E slot.

The side of the drive with the label, controller and memory chip, should be facing upwards (away from motherboard) once installed, unless the drive is double-sided, in which case it will have stuff on both sides.
 
Tetras said:
From what I can see, you have two M.2 slots, one is right at the bottom of the board, below the second full length PCI-E slot, the other slot is underneath a heatsink, above the first full length PCI-E slot.

The side of the drive with the label, controller and memory chip, should be facing upwards (away from motherboard) once installed, unless the drive is double-sided, in which case it will have stuff on both sides.
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Oh, right.

I tried the one under the H/S after removing it, it just seemed completely counter intuitive to me that the circuitry would not need to be in contact with the mobo...

So just for clarification - the side with "Western Digital" written on it, and various symbols should be facing the mobo?
 
Darujhistan said:
So just for clarification - the side with "Western Digital" written on it, and various symbols should be facing the mobo?
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The label should be facing upwards so you can read it (the side with circuitry). The power and data transfer is only via the pins on the connector, the rest of the drive should not be touching anything on the board, except for the riser that you screw it into.

Edit: there's a picture of the drive installed here in Tom's review
 
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Tetras said:
Facing upwards so you can read it. The power and data transfer is only via the pins on the connector, the rest of the drive should not be touching anything on the board, except for the riser that you screw it into.
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Then it doesn't fit, the western digtal side faces the mobo when fitted.

The slot in the drive is located bottom right corner, to align with slot on riser.
 
It will only fit one way around. M.2 drives are extremely universal and should fit anything as long as they are the correct length which yours is. Only ones that sometimes have issues are ones with large heat sinks on but that’s not a common issue either.

Stick it in, screw it down and job done.
 
www.techpowerup.com

WD Blue SN570 NVMe 1 TB Review - A Gem Hidden in Plain Sight

The WD Blue SN570 is priced extremely competitively at only $90 for the 1 TB version. While pricing suggests "entry-level," the drive is actually the second-fastest PCIe 3.0 SSD we ever tested, faster than the Kingston KC2500, ADATA SX8200 Pro, and HP EX950.
www.techpowerup.com www.techpowerup.com

Yep, aligns like the one in the pic would do.

I'm over-thinking this...
 
Darujhistan said:
www.techpowerup.com

WD Blue SN570 NVMe 1 TB Review - A Gem Hidden in Plain Sight

The WD Blue SN570 is priced extremely competitively at only $90 for the 1 TB version. While pricing suggests "entry-level," the drive is actually the second-fastest PCIe 3.0 SSD we ever tested, faster than the Kingston KC2500, ADATA SX8200 Pro, and HP EX950.
www.techpowerup.com www.techpowerup.com

Yep, aligns like the one in the pic would do.

I'm over-thinking this...
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My first time plugging in a NVMe drive the other week, it's unexpected as every other components goes directly into a slot, these you have to insert at a 30° angle and then push it down - when you're being delicate with components it certainly feels like you're installing it wrong.
 
Semple said:
My first time plugging in a NVMe drive the other week, it's unexpected as every other components goes directly into a slot, these you have to insert at a 30° angle and then push it down - when you're being delicate with components it certainly feels like you're installing it wrong.
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Yeah, I think it went in fine.

So I fitted it and it doesn't show up in my drives, but does show up in BIOS...

edit - It also appears in "Speccy" as well...
 
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At least you didn't do what i did the first time i 'installed' an NVMe, turns out the post you screw the drive to isn't meant to come off the MoBo...that is unless you rift on it with a pair of needle nose pliers. :D

Didn't help that the post had knurling on it so i stupidly thought that was there to help you grip it when unscrewing it.
 
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