960 Evo getting speeds of 600-800MBps which is very low.

[Ferrariassassin]

Ok so I know my motherboard sucks but it supports speeds of an M.2 of 10Gb/s which I think equals to 10,000MBps and the 960 EVO is rated at 3,200MBps so why is it getting 800MBps when my PC can handle speeds of 10,000MBps? I may be looking at this all wrong and sound like a cool but that's why I am asking for help because I truly do not know. My motherboard is a GIGABYTE GA-H97-GAMING-GAMING 3 and the link is below.

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-H97-Gaming-3-rev-10#ov

 

[Dunlop0078]

That motherboard will limit that drive to x2 pcie 2.0, ideally you would want x4 pcie 3.0 So yes I would expect that board to limit the speeds of a 960 evo to around what you are getting. Im not really sure what that 10gb/s means to be honest but it is not the max sequential read speed your motherboard will support.

 

[Richard_253]

Ok so I know my motherboard sucks but it supports speeds of an M.2 of 10Gb/s which I think equals to 10,000MBps and the 960 EVO is rated at 3,200MBps so why is it getting 800MBps when my PC can handle speeds of 10,000MBps? I may be looking at this all wrong and sound like a cool but that's why I am asking for help because I truly do not know. My motherboard is a GIGABYTE GA-H97-GAMING-GAMING 3 and the link is below.

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-H97-Gaming-3-rev-10#ov

It looks like your MB has one PCIe 3.0 x16 slot. You can get full speed on your SSD by using a PCIe x4 3.0 M.2 adapter card in that slot.

 

[Ferrariassassin]

Ok so I know my motherboard sucks but it supports speeds of an M.2 of 10Gb/s which I think equals to 10,000MBps and the 960 EVO is rated at 3,200MBps so why is it getting 800MBps when my PC can handle speeds of 10,000MBps? I may be looking at this all wrong and sound like a cool but that's why I am asking for help because I truly do not know. My motherboard is a GIGABYTE GA-H97-GAMING-GAMING 3 and the link is below.

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-H97-Gaming-3-rev-10#ov

It looks like your MB has one PCIe 3.0 x16 slot. You can get full speed on your SSD by using a PCIe x4 3.0 M.2 adapter card in that slot.

What is that? Is it like something that lets me plug the M.2 into my GPU slot?