- Aug 16, 2015
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Can anyone tell me how to make my Samsung sm951 available as a boot drive in the BIOS on this board please?
Gigabyte Gaming 5 Z97 motherboard M.2 issue.
- Thread starter Ali_Schofield
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You need to identify it by the third letter in the part number. The NVMe model is designated by a V, while the AHCI model has an H. You should also identify the OS you want to boot.
Only a handful of X99 and Z97 boards have "Ultra," "Turbo," or otherwise amped-up M.2 slots with enough bandwidth to fully exploit the SM951. Quad-lane slots should be more common on next-gen Skylake boards this summer. In your case, the SM951 can be mounted on an M.2 adapter card and plugged into any full-sized PCIe slot.
Lycom DT-120 M.2 PCIe to PCIe 3.0 x4 Adapter
http://www.amazon.com/Lycom-DT-120-PCIe-Adapter-Support/dp/B00MYCQP38/ref=pd_sim_147_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=1PFP86MAP9PV9PP5PK8T
See review By Taylor Vowell on August 13, 2015
Only a handful of X99 and Z97 boards have "Ultra," "Turbo," or otherwise amped-up M.2 slots with enough bandwidth to fully exploit the SM951. Quad-lane slots should be more common on next-gen Skylake boards this summer. In your case, the SM951 can be mounted on an M.2 adapter card and plugged into any full-sized PCIe slot.
Lycom DT-120 M.2 PCIe to PCIe 3.0 x4 Adapter
http://www.amazon.com/Lycom-DT-120-PCIe-Adapter-Support/dp/B00MYCQP38/ref=pd_sim_147_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=1PFP86MAP9PV9PP5PK8T
See review By Taylor Vowell on August 13, 2015
- Aug 16, 2015
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so you're saying that I need to use an adapter in order to for it to be recognised by the BIOS? If so, why would they include the native M.2 slot?
- Aug 16, 2015
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Sorry, should have said; the BIOS isn't recognising the M.2 drive in its native port, even though the board does in fact have one.
- Aug 16, 2015
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It's finally working!
Downloading the latest BIOS software and putting it on a flash drive, and subsequently using Q-flash to update it worked. Although, make sure to take the flash drive out as it will try to use it as a boot drive.
Thanks everyone.
Downloading the latest BIOS software and putting it on a flash drive, and subsequently using Q-flash to update it worked. Although, make sure to take the flash drive out as it will try to use it as a boot drive.
Thanks everyone.
The Samsung supports four Gen 3.0 PCIe lanes.
Using the your M.2 slot you are limited to two lanes Gen 2.0 PCIe (1 GB/s).
M.2 to PCIe adapter - such an expansion slot has four 2.0 PCI-Express lanes (2 GB/s for PCI-Express 2.0) which is the reason to use an adapter.
Using the your M.2 slot you are limited to two lanes Gen 2.0 PCIe (1 GB/s).
M.2 to PCIe adapter - such an expansion slot has four 2.0 PCI-Express lanes (2 GB/s for PCI-Express 2.0) which is the reason to use an adapter.
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