Help a noob choose a M.2

j.col

j.col

j.col

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I am thinking of adding a M.2 drive for games storage and not an os drive.

My current mobo is
Asus Rog Z97 Maximus Hero VII and only has a slower m.2 drive built onto the mobo, so not using this.


I am thinking of getting a pcie adapter and a M.2 drive and adding it to my second red x16 pcie slot.
I understand that will make my gpu run at x8 but its negligible to performance afaik

Just looking at a 500gb drive for now but i am lost with the nvme, sata, m.2 etc......

Can anyone spec me a drive and adapter please?
 
thx chaps for the replies.

Dont forget i haven't got a clue about what most of the stuff you are saying lol

@mickyflinn i dont have any M.2 drive on this pc, just a sata ssd with Win 10 on it

@EsaT i was't planning on using the onboard M.2 slot as i know it will be too slow.

i was doing a bit of reading and found this https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/ssd-upgrade-pcie-lanes-on-asus-maximus-vii-hero.3643375/

"If you use PCIE M.2 adapter card in second PCIE x16 slot (x8 mode), then you can get full speed of PCIE 3.0 x4 M.2 drive.
This will limit first PCIE x16 to x8 mode though. But performance impact is minimal. So, it's ok to do that.

M.2 slot on motherboard is limited to PCIE 2.0 x2 mode. So it's 1/4 of PCIE 3.0 x4 bandwidth.
With PCIE M.2 adapter in third PCIE x16 slot (x4 mode) it's limited to PCIE 2.0 x4."

So using a pcie adapter and a M.2 drive will it be faster than a sata ssd? Or is a standard sata ssd as good?

Its only going to be used for the games i play most atm and not an OS drive
World of Warships. (my div mates results always load about 2 to 3 secs faster and he has a M.2)
Civ VI
Valheim
 
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