ASROCK H110MV compatible with SAMSUNG 970 evo

[diegopedro1194]

Hi! I know there have been several posts about NVME compatibility but it still bothers me if the 970 evo VNAND M2 PCI will fit in my mother. Here are the details of it:

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/H110M-HDV/?cat=Specifications

As you can see it says:

*Supports NVMe SSD as boot disks

But I don't know whether this means I have to get a PCIE M2 adapter in order to connect it or if this one won't work.


Thanks!

 

[DRagor]

Your board does not have M.2 slot, so you cannot connect M.2 drive directly to it. You would need PCIe adapter for that. However note that your board has only one PCIe slot bigger then x1, and it is already occupied if you have GPU. In such case, any adapter you could install would be limited to only x1 speed, which makes it totally useless - you would have to pay lots of money (for the drive and adapter) and gain speeds not much better then with normal SATA SSD. Assuming you'll find an adapter that works in PCIe x1 slot at all. Also, most likely the board will only the able to boot from NVMe drive if it is put into x16 slot (at least that's what board specification implies).

 

[diegopedro1194]

Your board does not have M.2 slot, so you cannot connect M.2 drive directly to it. You would need PCIe adapter for that. However note that your board has only one PCIe slot bigger then x1, and it is already occupied if you have GPU. In such case, any adapter you could install would be limited to only x1 speed, which makes it totally useless - you would have to pay lots of money (for the drive and adapter) and gain speeds not much better then with normal SATA SSD. Assuming you'll find an adapter that works in PCIe x1 slot at all. Also, most likely the board will only the able to boot from NVMe drive if it is put into x16 slot (at least that's what board specification implies).

Thanks a lot for your answer! Basically It would be better if I buy a SATA SSD like a Samsung 850 or such right?

 

[DRagor]

Thanks a lot for your answer! Basically It would be better if I buy a SATA SSD like a Samsung 850 or such right?

If you have a GPU (or plan to have it) then yes.