[SOLVED] How do I know if my motherboard will support NVMe SSD?

[Tatoline]

I'm new on desktop computers and hardware and I don't know how to pick a SSD which is compatible with my motherboard. I picked a SSD which is fastest I found so far, but how should I understand that is it ok for my motherboard?

There are a lot of SATA III text on motherboard and storage part on manufacturer web site.

What I pick as SSD is Samsung 1TB 970 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD and my motherboard is Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0. Please do not tell "yes it's compatible buy it / no it's not compatible don't buy it" only, I want to learn. "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." Thank you 🙂

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Do not buy any M.2 SSD. These require an M.2 slot which your motherboard doesn't have.

You need a regular 2.5-inch SATA SSD like this for example:

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/500...ead-560mb-s-write-530mb-s-95k-84k-iops-retail

 

[Tatoline]

Do not buy any M.2 SSD. These require an M.2 slot which your motherboard doesn't have.

You need a regular 2.5-inch SATA SSD like this for example:

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/500...ead-560mb-s-write-530mb-s-95k-84k-iops-retail

Ok thank you. My motherboard must have a M.2 slot to use NVMe M.2 SSD then, and there is no such a thing like NVMe Sata SSD

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Ok thank you. My motherboard must have a M.2 slot to use NVMe M.2 SSD then, and there is no such a thing like NVMe Sata SSD

No there is no such thing as an NVMe SATA SSD.

The term "NVMe" applies only to M.2 SSDs.

 

[popatim]

If you wanted the drive just for storage (you won't be able to boot off of it) You could use an adapter card and install the NVME drive into your PCIe2x4 slot but you pretty have to be running windows 10 since MS took the win7 driver download offline.

Keep in mind that your motherboard only supports PCIE2 which is half the speed of PCIe3 so your NVME drive will not work at full speed.