Going full NVME for storage question

[Mr Carrot]

Hi guys looking to replace 4*HDD with 2 8tb NVME storage drives - my mobo - i9900k maximus code XI has 2 integral NVME slots, one of which is occupied with a system drive.

I have a spare PCI express slot (x16) and was wondering if i were to put a pice E adaptor in would this work ok with the mobo and not halve the graphics card performance or something?

If it would work ok is there any adaptor that people would recommend? i've been looking on OCUK and can't find a full pice slot one?

Cheers!!

 

[Mr Carrot]

Thanks for the response guys

If you use the 2nd gpu slot the graphicas card will run at x8 th6d bottom pcie x16 slot shares bandwidth with SATA6G_56 ports. PCIe x 16_3 slot is set at x2 mode by default.

Yeah the 3090 covers all slots bar the bottom PCI express so not getting at slot two even if I wanted.

So basically a PCI express adapter in slot 3 will run at twice the speed of a SATA drive? That seems fine for a storage drive?

I'm looking at doing a WC setup but don't want to compromise storage deleting the HDD cages

Which ones are you looking at? Normal m.2 drives by Corsair/Sabrent?


f you actually want to benefit from the speed, otherwise just buy some cheaper SATA SSD's.
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Already have a Sarbent provided by work was going to get a Corsair off OCuk - I've been trying to work out if even putting in an additional M2 drive in the motherboard second slot will impact the performance of anything (the system drive is a 980pro NVME).


I was looking to delete sata and power cabling as part of the setup (glass panels on both sides).

So in summary I hope this is right;

Sticking additional NVME drive on second mobo slotwill be fine.

Sticking single nvme drive in slot 3 via adaptor meana a X2 SATA speed drive?