Hello everyone,
I'll preface this by saying that I'll be using the NVMe drives for frequent large file transfer for gaming and editing,
And no, I wouldn't like to upgrade my motherboard cause at that point I'd just jump platform in to X670E and that entire platform swap is gonna cost way too much for what I'm trying to do here.
That and SATA SSD prices for 2TB drives are very close to that of M.2 ones, so I don't see any realistic reason I should sacrifice the speed for it, aside from this,
I've been meaning to upgrade and expand my storage for a while now and primarily looking to move to more NVMe SSD's and leave my current HDD's as backup drives.
I currently use a Adata XPG SX8200 Pro 512GB drive as my OS and smaller game drive and it's not really cutting it for me, I also run 1 1TB WD Blue 7200RPM HDD and 1 2TB Seagate Barracuda Compute 7200RPM HDD, mainly for multi layer backup, game storage and large file storage.
I'm running an AsRock B450M Pro4 motherboard and Ryzen 7 3700X CPU, the main issue I have right now is concerns on compatibility with my motherboard and the card, and that if I wanted to expand my storage without buying the card, I'd have to buy a SATA M.2 drive as my motherboard only has 2 M.2 slots, and those, funny enough, are about the same price as an NVMe one where I live, so I'm looking in to getting the Asus Hyper M.2 x16 V2 (Still don't know if I should grab the Gen4 version for the long term as it is an older design it seems.), V2 model costs around 50 Euros and Gen4 model costs about 80 Euros.
For now I'm looking to replacing my current Adata 512GB SSD with a WD SN770 2TB and put the 512GB SSD in to the Hyper M.2, I am possibly looking in to making a RAID array in the future, but as for now, I wouldn't mind spending a little extra on the card as it might prove useful for future projects as well, main concern for me now is the PCIe bifurcation part, as my motherboard doesn't support it. Though I have heard that you can use the card with 1-2 SSD's without much issue, so I still have hope.
Thank you all in advance!
I'll preface this by saying that I'll be using the NVMe drives for frequent large file transfer for gaming and editing,
And no, I wouldn't like to upgrade my motherboard cause at that point I'd just jump platform in to X670E and that entire platform swap is gonna cost way too much for what I'm trying to do here.
That and SATA SSD prices for 2TB drives are very close to that of M.2 ones, so I don't see any realistic reason I should sacrifice the speed for it, aside from this,
I've been meaning to upgrade and expand my storage for a while now and primarily looking to move to more NVMe SSD's and leave my current HDD's as backup drives.
I currently use a Adata XPG SX8200 Pro 512GB drive as my OS and smaller game drive and it's not really cutting it for me, I also run 1 1TB WD Blue 7200RPM HDD and 1 2TB Seagate Barracuda Compute 7200RPM HDD, mainly for multi layer backup, game storage and large file storage.
I'm running an AsRock B450M Pro4 motherboard and Ryzen 7 3700X CPU, the main issue I have right now is concerns on compatibility with my motherboard and the card, and that if I wanted to expand my storage without buying the card, I'd have to buy a SATA M.2 drive as my motherboard only has 2 M.2 slots, and those, funny enough, are about the same price as an NVMe one where I live, so I'm looking in to getting the Asus Hyper M.2 x16 V2 (Still don't know if I should grab the Gen4 version for the long term as it is an older design it seems.), V2 model costs around 50 Euros and Gen4 model costs about 80 Euros.
For now I'm looking to replacing my current Adata 512GB SSD with a WD SN770 2TB and put the 512GB SSD in to the Hyper M.2, I am possibly looking in to making a RAID array in the future, but as for now, I wouldn't mind spending a little extra on the card as it might prove useful for future projects as well, main concern for me now is the PCIe bifurcation part, as my motherboard doesn't support it. Though I have heard that you can use the card with 1-2 SSD's without much issue, so I still have hope.
Thank you all in advance!