m.2

Hello all! My friend has been slowly building a PC and has it completed, here are the specs: Msi Tomahawk x570s Ryzen 5950x Msi 4070 super 1TB 980 pro 2TB 980 pro 128gb DDR4 3600 corsair vengeance Win 11 Home Original parts before issues: CPU MB RAM 1 Tb 980 Around May, he purchased the...

So this started around the time that the black ops 6 beta was happening and this one day I left my computer on all night on the main menu screen and when I woke up my computer was completely turned off when I went to boot it I find out that it destroyed my SATA SSD so I replaced the SATA SSD but...

My laptop came with a 500GB M.2 SSD; I'd like to replace it with a 2 or 4TB model. No gaming, just lots of apps and data. Does anyone know if the internal space is large enough for a 2280 WITH a heatspreader, or do I just go bare? Andrew

Hey all. Recently, my HDD died and I lost a lot of data. My current setup has an SSD running my OS and I purchased two Samsung 1TB M.2 SSD's in order to raid them together for gaming purposes via stripe. The issue I had at first as that my MSI z390 BIOS didn't recognize them at all. I...

Hello everyone, Recently bought a new M.2, but sometimes the bios does not detect it. When this happens, I restart the pc a few times and it detects again. (It is the only memory installed). Motherboard: B450 TOMAHAWK MAX; M.2: WD_Black SN850X. Any idea, what could be? Thank you.

Hi, my HDD is failing as per this image: https://ibb.co/8K9t697 Idk how long it'll last me. I am scared I will lose my data :( On my motherboard model (MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon ac) there are 2 m.2 slots. M2_1 and M2_2. Can I use both the m.2 slots simultaneously? On my first m.2 slot...

Just built my first PC, Everything is great except when i boot into bios my nvme drive isnt detected. Pc specs: Ryzen 5 5600 Gigabyte b550m ds3h Kingston NV1 1tb m.2 nvme 8x2gb 3200mhz hyper fury ram Rx 6700xt When u boot it up theres a red flash on the nvme so i think its connected? I dont...

My Samsung 980 will not appear in bios (or windows install USB) as a drive after plugging in a SATA powered fan to the PSU. The PSU would not power the fan from SATA power plug 1, and wouldn’t even turn on if something was connected to the SATA power plug. so I swapped it to SATA power plug 2...

Hi all, I'm building a new PC tomorrow and wondered if there's anything specific I need to do with a drive that just has games installed on it, no operating system. I will be installing Win11 on a new M.2 that I have bought. Cheers

I am looking to purchase a WD Black SN850X on a Prime Day discount but having read the manual for my MSI PRO Z690-A motherboard I am wondering is it a waste of money if I put it in a Gen4 M.2 Slot that is running through chipset instead of CPU (that slot is already occupied with OS drive)...

So the question is Iam building pc with 2 ssd ,one is Samsung 990 EVO 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 5.0 X2 NVME SSD other is Kingston NV2 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME SSD ON ASUS STRIX B 650 E E GAMING WIFI MOTHERBOARD and not slowing down graphic performance on MY RTX STRIX 4070TI SUPER OC this...

I have a TUF B450-M plus motherboard, and I am looking to purchase a WD_Black SN850X. I have read that the motherboard doesn’t fully support PCIe gen 4, and that they removed it in a previous bios update . I don’t mind the idea that it won’t be reaching its maximum speeds as I am aware that the...

hello i’m trying to install a m.2 into a Asus Prime B450M-K but in the screw hole there’s nothing, no binding, nothing for the screw to tie into just a empty hole and i’m not sure how to screw it down if the screw hole has no binding

hello i’m trying to install a m.2 into a Asus Prime B450M-K i don’t have any standoffs or screws and i’m not sure what ones i would need and i don’t have anything that came with the motherboard, it’s just a little hole with no way a screw can be fitted quite confused as this is my first time...

Hello, so basically my problem is, in my PC I have a 1tb m.2 and a 2tb m.2. Windows is installed on the 1tb. In the bios my 1tb shows as normal but my 2tb shows up as 2.1GB if IRST is disabled. If IRST is ENABLED then it’s shows up in the BIOS as 2048GB but when I go to boot windows it crashes...

I bought an M.2 drive a while ago for my computer and after a while after I bought it it would not be detected on a cold start. However, after restarting my computer, it would almost always be automatically detected. I have had this issue both booting off of an HDD and SSD. Any ideas on what...

hello i have a Crucial P5 Plus 500GB and a Crucial P5 Plus 2TB. my 500gb ssd is my windows drive, the health of the drive is already at 69% after 2 years mean while my other 2tb drive is still at 99. i have a screenshot from crystaldiskinfo but im not sure what to look for.

Here is my Z390 Godlike motherboard: https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813144209 Why are the 2 outer NVME slots bigger than the one NVME slot in the middle? I recently ordered a Samsung 990 Pro 4TB NVME, am I ONLY able to install that storage drive in the middle NVME slot on the motherboard?

I got a new motherboard Gigabyte B460M DS3H AC V2 and CPU Intel Core i7 10700 for my PC. I hooked everything back up correctly and I'm using my old M.2 NVMe as the C: operational windows drive. It booted up into BIOS but I can't see the M.2. I can't boot into windows. in easy mode it says...

Hello all, I have an ASUS Z790-Plus Wifi D4 Tuf Gaming Motherboard with an Intel i9-13900KF Desktop Processor. I also have 4 M.2 slots, and I have my 1 2tb SP M.2 NVMe SSD plugged into one. The main problem is that I know the SSD is connected, because the BiOS shows it as a storage device, but...

So my little brother's laptop died and he's sad because he had a lot of photos stored on it. I have extracted the laptop's storage, which I have identified as a M.2 2280 B+M SSD, at least according to this Dell article about different M.2 cards. I have tried to insert the card into one of my...

I got a new "Crucial P3 2TB M.2 PCIe Gen3 NVMe Interne SSD, up to 3500MB/s - CT2000P3SSD801 (Acronis Edition)" And I am kinda skeptik about it. I unrared a big folder (113 gb) and was unrarring but every few minutes it hangs for 5 sec then continues. I took a screenshot of the performance, you...

Hello everyone, I have a strange issue here. I just built a new PC the other day, and ordered all of my parts off of Amazon from official OEM pages. One of these parts was the SAMSUNG 980 Pro SSD 2TB Gen 4 M.2 (MZ-V8P2T0B/AM). All my parts arrived, everything was fine, until I got my new PC to...

What should I be looking for when buying a drive for this PC (Lenovo s500 10hd0037uk)? There's no drive in it currently, it was using a KINGSTON SUV400S37480G (upgraded from the original drive), Graphics card is a Geforce GT610 Synergy 1GB Graphics card, 16GB RAM. I'm looking to get an SSD...

Hello all! It's been quite some years since I was up to date with PC's and components. My Samsung 850 250GB SATA SSD has just died, and I am looking for a replacement. When I recently looked at the speed difference between my dead Samsung and the cheapest M2 SSD's, I was shocked to learn the...

I was told it is nice to keep software and OS on a 500gb nvme m.2, and have a 2tb nvme m.2 for my game storage. I am about to build my first pc and am looking at the diagram of my mobo. I have a 5.0 pci m.2 slot/lane with my gpu and 4.0 pci nvme m.2 slot. Should I put the 500gb os drive in the...

I need help trying my m.2 trying to work, specs: B450 steel legend mother board 3.7 version 6700xt graphics car 5600x cpu 48gb ram 1tb sata drive 200 gb ssd sata I’ve tried two diff ssds in both ports, 970 evo and crucial t500 I thought it was a compatibility so I returned the evo and got...

Hello everyone, recently I've noticed a quite uncommon behavior on my laptop, it started with an old M.2 SSD I had which was quite bad and I thought maybe the SSD was the reason so I switched to a Kingston 1TB NVMe SSD. It started off nice but then when I unplugged my laptop the usage got...

Hello everyone, Yesterday I started trying to clone my Windows 11 to a new M.2 NVMe that I bought (you can see the Reddit post here) but was not able to get anywhere with this so I decided to just do a clean install. I have pretty much tried everything I could find here and on other forums but...

Hey there! I have: Teamgroup MP33 1TB M.2 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME (SSD) AMD Ryzen 7 7700X (CPU) MSI Pro B650-P Wifi (Mobo) In BIOS, the M.2 is not an option for booting! Is there a step I missed? This is my first PC so I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case. Let me know if there's any info that...

So I'm looking to change my main windows 11 drive to a new drive with better performance / more space. I'm a little stuck on exactly how to clone/ move the drives about as three will be 2 drives and only two slots :') Please Help :') My motherboard has slots for TWO M.2 drives which are both...

Hello. I just put a new SSD in and it doesn't show anywhere, not even in BIOS. I know that it's working because i took it out from a working PC. I have Gigabyte B760 gaming x ax motherboard.I have already installed NVMe SSD with Windows 11 and it's working.The new SSD i got is Sata SSD (B+M)...

Hi, Just in the process of building a new PC and have a quick question regarding where to put my M.2 drives. I have two Samsung 990 Pro 2TB drives and I want to install them on a MSI MPG Z790 Carbon WIFI board. There are five M.2 slots on the board with the following specs: M.2_1 Source...

I've got an i3-8100 desktop with a Gigabyte H310-S2P motherboard, and I just found out it has an M.2 SSD slot. I've never used one before and need advice on which type of SSD to get. Can anyone suggest a compatible M.2 SSD type or generation? Also, any tips on what to tell the seller when buying...

Having some problems getting optimum video performance. R9 5900X / 32GB DDR4-3200 / RTX3060ti. My 60hz display limits me to 60 FPS, but I can't even maintain that. Usually around 50-52. I'm getting some minor tearing on certain screen refreshes even at that. Have two SN570s in primary and...

Pre info: My PC locked up a couple months ago and I forced a shutdown and turned it back on. When I did, I was greeted with a black screen that said “press any key to boot from cd or dvd…” I found it weird and just turned my PC off and on again. Magically the issue went away and it booted...

Hello, I have a PlayStation 5 (normal version with cd) and i want to expand my memory with 1TB SSD but in my country there is no licensed 300$ WD x PlayStation M.2 SSD so i immediately started searching for alternatives and found SAMSUNG SSD 980 PRO 1TB NVMe M.2 2280 and because this is my...

Does anyone know if the Lexar NQ790 is any good? I've seen tons of good reviews for the NM790 but hardly anything for the NQ790 which I think is newer? I'm struggling to find any reviews or videos. I'm leaning towards the NM790 as it's far more well known. Or if you can recommend something...

While trying to remove the preinstalled M.2 SSD heatsink from my motherboard, I ended up stripping the screw as it was ridiculously overtightened. I then tried removing the standoff it was screwed into, assuming it was also screwed into the motherboard. However, the standoff had apparently been...

UPDATED DESCRIPTION (1/16/2024): FIXED!!! I've made a post a couple days ago about the MSI MPG B550 GAMING PLUS motherboard. Recently, I purchassed and installed the Samsung 980 Pro NVMe M.2 SSD. The issue I found, was that installing that SSD into the M2_1 slot, I was only getting one lane...