[SOLVED] Can my motherboard support M.2 NVMe SSDs?

[sid_90]

This is my MoBo

PRIME H310M-E｜Motherboards｜ASUS Global

www.asus.com

It has an M.2 Slot. I would like to know if I can mount Samsung 970 Evo NVMe 256GB SSD on it?

A note at the end says that if I use M.2 slot then SATA_2 wont work. Is that one of the 4 Grey Colored SATA Ports I have on my Mobo (for connecting HDDs and Optial Drive) that one?

 

[Traditore]

This motherboard with PCIe 2.0 for M.2 does not support the speed Samsung 970 capable of. You'll get fast response time and fast random reads/writes, but sequential read/write speed (reading/writing big files) will be at least half the advertised.

That said, Samsung 970 Evo is PCI-e so you don't have to worry about SATA ports. It says "When a device in SATA mode is installed..."

 

[TJ Hooker]

This motherboard with PCIe 2.0 for M.2 does not support the speed Samsung 970 capable of. You'll get fast response time and fast random reads/writes, but sequential read/write speed (reading/writing big files) will be at least half the advertised.

It actually looks like the M.2 slot is PCIe 2.0 x2, so you're down to only 1/4 the bandwidth that drive would normally have. At that point I don't know if I'd even bother getting a PCIe drive over a SATA drive, unless they cost almost the same.