Question ASRock Steel Legend X870 and Gen 5 M.2 SSD compatibility - part number shown on Storage QVL not same as retail?

[Dunkz]

Im looking at the ASRock Steel Legend X870 Blazing M.2 Storage QVL for PCIe5 x4 M.2 SSD drives and it shows, for example, the Corsair 2TB MP700 Pro with a Part Number CSSD-F2000GBMP700PHX

However, when i look at buying this drive from Scan website https://www.scan.co.uk/products/2tb...sd-12400mb-s-read-11800mb-s-write-1500k-1600k it shows what looks like the same drive but with slightly different part number CSSD-F2000GBMP700PNH

Its a similar story with the Seagate Firecuda 540 2TB drive, the part number shown on the QVL list is ZP2000GM30004, which is slightly different to the one against the product on the Scan website of ZP2000GM3A004

Should i take it that the drives i am looking at are simply not compatible with the ASRock X870 mobo because of the different part numbers, or is there some numbering convention i am missing here that means i can assume the drives are compatible? It seems odd that the model descriptions appear to be the same but the part numbers different.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Why is it you think it wouldn't be compatible and since when did anybody look at QVL lists for NVME drives? It will work fine. Non-issue.

 

[Lutfij]

the Corsair 2TB MP700 Pro with a Part Number CSSD-F2000GBMP700PHX
The HX at the end of the part number is Hydro X, meaning that it's got a waterblock from it's in-house watercooling range of hardware. Underneath it's the same SSD as the one you've found, which is this;
https://www.corsair.com/us/en/p/dat...qQod83RNJyP_4WV0-orMa0jee3U0FcCgA_KvEWc4XsvcZ

If you're not going to be watercoling, get the one without the waterblock and if you have heatsinks courtesy of your motherboard, get one without a heatsink as removing them can and will void your warranty.

I would make sure you're on the latest BIOS version before you drop in any devices onto the motherboard.

 

[Dunkz]

ok thanks, strange that the QVL list from ASRock has the Part number corresponding to the Hydro X drive because the ASRock Steel Legend (I forgot to specify that its the Steel Legend i'm talking about) X870 mobo has its own Blazing M.2 heatsink built into the motherboard

Perhaps the person who makes the QVL hasnt been quite so thorough with the part numbers?

 

[Dunkz]

Why is it you think it wouldn't be compatible and since when did anybody look at QVL lists for NVME drives? It will work fine. Non-issue.

apologies i forgot to mark that the motherboard is the Steel Legend, it comes with its own heatsink arrangement for the M.2 drives, so not all are compatible (i.e. especially not ones that have their own heatsink)

 

[Darkbreeze]

apologies i forgot to mark that the motherboard is the Steel Legend, it comes with its own heatsink arrangement for the M.2 drives, so not all are compatible (i.e. especially not ones that have their own heatsink)

I've built systems on a variety of boards that come with their own heatsinks, and looking at that board it looks no different in general than any others that come with them. That integrated cooler should work with ANY M.2 NVME drive that is a supported form factor of the board such as M.2 2280 etc, but like Lutfij said unless you plan to use a loop there is no sense in buying some models that are designed for water cooling. All others if they are a supported form factor should work fine regardless of whether they come with their own heatsink or not. Obviously you would simply not use the one that comes with a drive if you wanted to use the motherboard heatsink, but that again seems a waste of money unless you already had the drive in which case there would be no problem using it with this board and it's heatsink. If it's a supported form factor for the board, it will work, period.

 

[Dunkz]

I've built systems on a variety of boards that come with their own heatsinks, and looking at that board it looks no different in general than any others that come with them. That integrated cooler should work with ANY M.2 NVME drive that is a supported form factor of the board such as M.2 2280 etc, but like Lutfij said unless you plan to use a loop there is no sense in buying some models that are designed for water cooling. All others if they are a supported form factor should work fine regardless of whether they come with their own heatsink or not. Obviously you would simply not use the one that comes with a drive if you wanted to use the motherboard heatsink, but that again seems a waste of money unless you already had the drive in which case there would be no problem using it with this board and it's heatsink. If it's a supported form factor for the board, it will work, period.

i get what you are saying, but i previously bought a samsung 990 Pro with its own heatsink and it did not fit into the mechanism on the board. the screw that locks the top of the drive in position has its own little plastic locking mechanism (turn the plastic lock to lock the drive in, rather than use screwdriver) and that simply would not turn to lock position on the 990 Pro with heatsink. So i think some caution is needed to pick a compatible drive.

Maybe you could do away with the plastic locking mechanism and just rely on the screw on its own using a screwdriver to remove it from the board and then replace without the plastic lock but as a noob, i didnt fancy that approach.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Maybe you could do away with the plastic locking mechanism and just rely on the screw on its own

This is literally every drive that doesn't come with a heatsink, so yes, doing away with the plastic locking mechanism would be apprpriate.

Although, I've used about every major model of Samsung NVME M.2 drive that's come out over the years, multiples of many models for that matter, and I've not seen one yet that has what you're talking about. I mean, this is literally the page for the 990 Pro and there is no plastic locking mechanism.

https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/990-pro-pcie-4-0-nvme-ssd-2tb-mz-v9p2t0b-am/