- Jun 7, 2022
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Hi Everyone,
As I said in the title I'm new to building PC's and so I might be lacking some basic knowledge.
The problem I'm having is trying to connect an External SSD (Samsung T7 SSD, USB3.2 gen 2, read write speeds around 1000MB/s ) to my motherboard without reducing its maximum potential speed.
I have quite an old motherboard that only has SATA ports and 2.0 PCIe ports available for the SSD to connect to (3.0 PCIe x16 slot is used by my graphics card).
So from what I can tell the SATA III ports will supposedly deliver around 700 MB/s, so I could get a usb-c to SATA III adaptor but that wouldn't fully utilise the SSD's max speeds.
The only other option I have is a 2.0 PCIe x16 port which my motherboard manual states that it is only powered to use 4 lanes, which I believe equates to about 2Gb/s. So this slot would be fast enough if I was able to get a PCIe USB 3.2 gen 2 expansion card that utilised all of the 4 available lanes.
My question is will any PCIe USB 3.2 gen 2 expansion card I place into this x16 slot utilise all 4 lanes or will I need to get a specific PCIe card that fits either a x16 slot or x4 slot to utilise all of the available bandwidth?
It's all a bit confusing for me so my apologies if I've got some of the details wrong but I hope someone can help me with this.
Cheers.
As I said in the title I'm new to building PC's and so I might be lacking some basic knowledge.
The problem I'm having is trying to connect an External SSD (Samsung T7 SSD, USB3.2 gen 2, read write speeds around 1000MB/s ) to my motherboard without reducing its maximum potential speed.
I have quite an old motherboard that only has SATA ports and 2.0 PCIe ports available for the SSD to connect to (3.0 PCIe x16 slot is used by my graphics card).
So from what I can tell the SATA III ports will supposedly deliver around 700 MB/s, so I could get a usb-c to SATA III adaptor but that wouldn't fully utilise the SSD's max speeds.
The only other option I have is a 2.0 PCIe x16 port which my motherboard manual states that it is only powered to use 4 lanes, which I believe equates to about 2Gb/s. So this slot would be fast enough if I was able to get a PCIe USB 3.2 gen 2 expansion card that utilised all of the 4 available lanes.
My question is will any PCIe USB 3.2 gen 2 expansion card I place into this x16 slot utilise all 4 lanes or will I need to get a specific PCIe card that fits either a x16 slot or x4 slot to utilise all of the available bandwidth?
It's all a bit confusing for me so my apologies if I've got some of the details wrong but I hope someone can help me with this.
Cheers.
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