Good evening!
In a very much surprise event to me, I was gifted with a 2TB M.2 SSD (Sabrent Rocket NMVe 4.0, specifically) and I am wondering if I can use it, or at least use it at least somewhat efficiently. On my B450 Tomahawk/R9 3950X combo, I have exactly one option if I'm able to use it, and that would be to attach it to a PCI-E adapter card. The board has give PCI slots, of which two are currently being populated with an MSI 5700XT in the 3.0x16 slot, and a sound card in one of three 2.0 x1 slots. There is one 2.0 x4 slot available that such a card could fit in. My rig is otherwise populated with multiple SATA drives, which include two SATA SSDs (one 960GB and one 500GB), one 1TB HDD and a 1TB M.2 as the C: drive. In essence, all SATA connections are being utilized.
I am not entirely understanding of PCI-E lanes and the effect/limitations they may be subject to where motherboard/chipset and CPU are concerned, so I guess my initial question is this, and any additional info (where a noob vocab might be used) anyone may feel is useful/pertinent afterwards: Would using an adapter card for such an M.2 be usable? I understand that the read/write speeds would probably be below maximum due to fewer lanes (if I understand correctly), but would this impede performance so much that it wouldn't be worth it to add?
Thank you in advance, and have a great one!
In a very much surprise event to me, I was gifted with a 2TB M.2 SSD (Sabrent Rocket NMVe 4.0, specifically) and I am wondering if I can use it, or at least use it at least somewhat efficiently. On my B450 Tomahawk/R9 3950X combo, I have exactly one option if I'm able to use it, and that would be to attach it to a PCI-E adapter card. The board has give PCI slots, of which two are currently being populated with an MSI 5700XT in the 3.0x16 slot, and a sound card in one of three 2.0 x1 slots. There is one 2.0 x4 slot available that such a card could fit in. My rig is otherwise populated with multiple SATA drives, which include two SATA SSDs (one 960GB and one 500GB), one 1TB HDD and a 1TB M.2 as the C: drive. In essence, all SATA connections are being utilized.
I am not entirely understanding of PCI-E lanes and the effect/limitations they may be subject to where motherboard/chipset and CPU are concerned, so I guess my initial question is this, and any additional info (where a noob vocab might be used) anyone may feel is useful/pertinent afterwards: Would using an adapter card for such an M.2 be usable? I understand that the read/write speeds would probably be below maximum due to fewer lanes (if I understand correctly), but would this impede performance so much that it wouldn't be worth it to add?
Thank you in advance, and have a great one!