M.2 how to get it to work on a b660-plus d4

ixi1456 · 9 Sep 2023 at 15:55

I have a tuf gaming b660-plus wifi d4 board and i have put my m.2 sata drive into all three slots but there not showing up in bios or device manager. ive been told that my sata slots will stop working when i use them but thats fine. How do i enable them .TiA

Tetras · 9 Sep 2023 at 16:18

What is the M.2 drive that you're trying to use?

ixi1456 · 9 Sep 2023 at 16:52

The one with the two slots at the bottom

Snapshot · 9 Sep 2023 at 16:54

The manual does not say that the M.2 slots support SATA; only PCIe is mentioned. If SATA isn't stated as supported then it's almost certain that it isn't.
M.2 SATA is pretty well dead now as NVMe is cheaper, faster and doesn't kill the SATA ports.

Snapshot · 9 Sep 2023 at 16:56

ixi1456 said:
The one with the two slots at the bottom

ixi1456 · 9 Sep 2023 at 17:11

Snapshot said:
The manual does not say that the M.2 slots support SATA; only PCIe is mentioned. If SATA isn't stated as supported then it's almost certain that it isn't.
M.2 SATA is pretty well dead now as NVMe is cheaper, faster and doesn't kill the SATA ports.

Would i be better getting nvme's then cloning them and would the work straight away or need setting up

Tetras · 9 Sep 2023 at 18:04

ixi1456 said:
The one with the two slots at the bottom

I wanted the model number of the M.2 drive. The reason I ask is because SATA M.2 drives are very rare now and I wanted to check it really is a SATA drive.

Snapshot · 9 Sep 2023 at 18:14

ixi1456 said:
Would i be better getting nvme's then cloning them and would the work straight away or need setting up

Yes, if properly cloned they should just work.

ixi1456 · 9 Sep 2023 at 19:18

Tetras said:
I wanted the model number of the M.2 drive. The reason I ask is because SATA M.2 drives are very rare now and I wanted to check it really is a SATA drive.

Its a oricalOm-350-128. 128gb m.2 sata 2280 ssd tlc. it has 2 cut outs on the connection end. Sorry if i dont explain myself properly at 72 this is all new to me but im getting there

darael · 10 Sep 2023 at 09:33

ixi1456 said:
Its a oricalOm-350-128. 128gb m.2 sata 2280 ssd tlc. it has 2 cut outs on the connection end. Sorry if i dont explain myself properly at 72 this is all new to me but im getting there

Is that the actual model number from the drive? Google isn't showing anything useful when I search for "oricalOm-350-128".

Perhaps you could take a photo of the drive, ensuring that the text on the drive can be easily read.

Edit:

Is that the drive?

ixi1456 · 10 Sep 2023 at 12:20

darael said:
Is that the actual model number from the drive? Google isn't showing anything useful when I search for "oricalOm-350-128".

Perhaps you could take a photo of the drive, ensuring that the text on the drive can be easily read.

Edit:

Is that the drive?

Yes thats the one

mickyflinn · 10 Sep 2023 at 12:36

ixi1456 said:
Yes thats the one

Can you send it back ?

128gb is small what's it for ?

Budget for nvme drive ?

ixi1456 · 10 Sep 2023 at 13:25

mickyflinn said:
Can you send it back ?

128gb is small what's it for ?

Budget for nvme drive ?

No i had it on another board i just use it for music storage. budget is around £40 tops as my pension wont stretch far this month

mickyflinn · 10 Sep 2023 at 13:48

ixi1456 said:
No i had it on another board i just use it for music storage. budget is around £40 tops as my pension wont stretch far this month

You can geta 1tb western digital sn570 for £40 or 500gb for £28 ,also crucial p3 1tb nvme are cheap £35.

ixi1456 · 10 Sep 2023 at 16:58

mickyflinn said:
You can geta 1tb western digital sn570 for £40 or 500gb for £28 ,also crucial p3 1tb nvme are cheap £35.

Thank you i will look into those. Thanks for all your help its been very useful