Question ASRock Fatal1ty B450 Motherboard: How to connect an SSD with SATA 2.5 connector

[Masohas]

Hello, I bought the SAMSUNG 870 Qvo 1TB SSD, and I misread that the connector is SATA 2.5 (22-pin), but I don't see such a connector on my computer.

I have an ASRock Fatal1ty B450 Gaming K4 motherboard. Please help me with how I can connect this drive to my computer.

 

[rgd1101]

ASRock Fatal1ty B450 Gaming K4

Supports AMD AM4 Socket Ryzen™ 2000, 3000, 4000 G-Series, 5000 and 5000 G-Series Desktop Processors; Supports DDR4 3200+ (OC); 2 PCIe 3.0 x16, 4 PCIe 2.0 x1; AMD Quad CrossFireX™; Graphics Output: DisplayPort, HDMI, D-Sub; Supports Triple Monitor; 7.1 CH HD Audio (Realtek ALC892 Audio Codec)...

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- 4 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug*
- 2 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors by ASMedia ASM1061, support NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug*

 

[Paperdoc]

SSD's today come it two major forms. The newest and fastest are the M.2 design that have a small edge connector on one end and fasten into a specific mobo socket type. Your mobo can be used with this type of SSD - see manual pp 36 to 41. The earlier type was designed particularly to be easy to install and use in any recent mobo because it connects exactly like a SATA type of HDD. THAT is what you have in the SAMSUNG 870 Qvo 1TB SSD. The "2.5" in its name refers to the WIDTH of the SSD case in inches, so it is sized like a smaller "laptop" hard drive. It has some screw holes in it. IF your mobo's hard drive mounting slots are designed to have that size of HDD installed, you can do that directly. Otherwise you would need a small adapter so you can fasten it into a wider slot where you might normally mount a hard drive. This adapter

https://www.amazon.com/WDX-Internal-Mounting-Bracket-Included/dp/B07FXW2S7W/ref=sr_1_17_sspa?crid=WA1DYKCMY5HL&keywords=ssd%2Badapter%2Bfor%2Bdesktop&qid=1701149049&sprefix=SSD%2Badapter%2Caps%2C96&sr=8-17-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9idGY&th=1

actually can hold two such SSD's in one standard 3½" HDD mounting slot, and it comes with cables for making the connections of two drives.

The SSD you have has two standard SATA edge connectors on one end - one for power from the PSU and one for the data cable to a common mobo SATA port. This type is a little slower than the new M.2 type, but still VERY MUCH faster than any mechanical hard drive.