ASRock 970A-G/3.1 - Support for Boot from PCIe NVMe SSD and M.2 Slot (NVMe?? or SATA or AHCI ??)

[sampathk]

Does ASRock 970A-G/3.1 motherboard support booting from m.2 slot with NVMe SSD Samsung 950 Pro 256 GB? and support booting from PCIe slot x4 ( Samsung 950 Pro 256 GB NVMe SSD with riser card) ? Currently am planning to buy ASRock 970A-G/3.1. Which protocol is being used in M.2 slot in this model NVMe or AHCI or SATA??? Please Suggest, and what is the settings in BIOS to boot from PCIe or M.2 slot NVMe if it supports ???

 

[Paul NZ]

The site says

1 x M.2_SSD (NGFF) Socket 3, supports M Key type 2230/2242/2260/2280/22110 M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen2 x4 (20 Gb/s)*

*If PCIE4 is occupied, M2_1 will be disabled.
The M.2 socket does not support SATA M.2 SSDs.

 

[sampathk]

The site says

1 x M.2_SSD (NGFF) Socket 3, supports M Key type 2230/2242/2260/2280/22110 M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen2 x4 (20 Gb/s)*

*If PCIE4 is occupied, M2_1 will be disabled.
The M.2 socket does not support SATA M.2 SSDs.

I might have read with mis-understanding. Putting both lines in to single line and i might be reading in that way,
[If PCIE4 slot is occupied then it will not support SATA M.2 SSD ??? :S ]
or
by natively it does not support SATA M.2 SSDs but NVMe support. In site they didn't mention that it will support NVMe SSD.

Please clarify ...

 

[Paul NZ]

It may only support M.2 but I think its different from a normal M.2 ssd

 

[maxalge]

Does ASRock 970A-G/3.1 motherboard support booting from m.2 slot with NVMe SSD Samsung 950 Pro 256 GB? and support booting from PCIe slot x4 ( Samsung 950 Pro 256 GB NVMe SSD with riser card) ? Currently am planning to buy ASRock 970A-G/3.1. Which protocol is being used in M.2 slot in this model NVMe or AHCI or SATA??? Please Suggest, and what is the settings in BIOS to boot from PCIe or M.2 slot NVMe if it supports ???

dont spend money on a dead platform




you may get the ssd to work with the adapter, but it will not be bootable and the slot speed would bottleneck the 950 into the dirt



>.> why in the blue blazes are you buying a 950 when you need to be spending that money on a proper ryzen/intel mobo

 

[sampathk]

It may only support M.2 but I think its different from a normal M.2 ssd

Thanks,
Even I thought the same way as it may support like normal M.2 devices but not PCIe NVMe SSD.

But site says M.2 under storage spec,

[Storage - 6 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 10), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug
- 1 x M.2_SSD (NGFF) Socket 3, supports M Key type 2230/2242/2260/2280/22110 M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen2 x4 (20 Gb/s)*

*If PCIE4 is occupied, M2_1 will be disabled.
The M.2 socket does not support SATA M.2 SSDs.]

But which protocol SATA M.2 SSD or NVMe SSD M.2 ? and supports Booting from NVMe SSD with riser card or directly from M.2 Slot ??

 

[sampathk]

Does ASRock 970A-G/3.1 motherboard support booting from m.2 slot with NVMe SSD Samsung 950 Pro 256 GB? and support booting from PCIe slot x4 ( Samsung 950 Pro 256 GB NVMe SSD with riser card) ? Currently am planning to buy ASRock 970A-G/3.1. Which protocol is being used in M.2 slot in this model NVMe or AHCI or SATA??? Please Suggest, and what is the settings in BIOS to boot from PCIe or M.2 slot NVMe if it supports ???

dont spend money on a dead platform




you may get the ssd to work with the adapter, but it will not be bootable and the slot speed would bottleneck the 950 into the dirt



>.> why in the blue blazes are you buying a 950 when you need to be spending that money on a proper ryzen/intel mobo

My current system hardware set up as below,
ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0,
AMD FX(tm)-4300 Quad-Core Processor × 4,
4 x 4GB DDR3 - 1333 MHz - Transcend,
Samsung Pro 950 SSD 256 GB,
SanDisk Xtreme 240 GB SSD,
NVIDIA GT 610.

Am going to change my motherboard since it will be given to my friend hence i need to buy another motherboard (only) for me which is already supporting boot from NVMe SSD with riser card. I can buy the same motherboard ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0 but since i searched and found ASRock 970A-G/3.1 with M.2 Slot thought of moving to ASRock.

My motherboard budget is USD 125 / INR 8000 only. Also please fit my current hardware setup to the reasonable/affordable motherboard ?

 

[Paul NZ]

It looks like the M.2 slot is for PCI-E 2.0x4 ssd's like this

https://pikeralpha.wordpress.com/2014/05/22/adata-sr1020np-m-2-ssd/

Thats why if you use the PCIE4 slot it disables this

This MAY work

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147349

Even those these say theyre PCI-E, I dont think theyre NVME's

 

[sampathk]

It looks like the M.2 slot is for PCI-E 2.0x4 ssd's like this

https://pikeralpha.wordpress.com/2014/05/22/adata-sr1020np-m-2-ssd/

Thats why if you use the PCIE4 slot it disables this

This MAY work

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147349

Even those these say theyre PCI-E, I dont think theyre NVME's

Thanks

I already own the below configuration hardware

1) ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0,
2) AMD FX(tm)-4300 Quad-Core Processor × 4,
3) 4 x 4GB DDR3 - 1333 MHz - Transcend,
4) Samsung Pro 950 SSD 256 GB with PCIe riser card,
5) SanDisk Xtreme 240 GB SSD,
6) NVIDIA GT 610.

Currently i want to replace the existing motherboard only and looking for new motherboard

 

[sampathk]

Can anyone check and help on this ?