M.2 SSD with an Asus 97K?

[woodworker100]

The 97K states that the M.2 socket uses both SATA or Pcie M.2 units.
But in SATA, the M2. socket only uses two lanes instead of the usual 4 lanes.
Does that mean that the performance will only be approximately 1/2 of the SSDs capability?
And, what if I use a PCI adaptor card that the M.2 drive plugs into, Will the drive work any faster?
The 97K has two free PCI slots and a PCIEX16 that could be used.
Thanks !

 

[woodworker100]

Apparently no one has used an M.2 drive with the Asus Z97K motherboard. So I ordered both the M.2 and a PCIe adapter card.
I will test both and post the results.
Stay tuned.

 

[mick9753]

Apparently no one has used an M.2 drive with the Asus Z97K motherboard. So I ordered both the M.2 and a PCIe adapter card.
I will test both and post the results.
Stay tuned.

hi have been running with Samsung 512 evo 850 m.2 card take 3 seconds to boot no problems at the moment

 

[woodworker100]

Mick9753:
Are you running the M.2 from the M.2 socket? or with an adaptor and from a PCIe slot?
Any hints on getting the M.2 to be recognized by the Bios, etc?
Thanks

 

[mick9753]

Mick9753:
Are you running the M.2 from the M.2 socket? or with an adaptor and from a PCIe slot?
Any hints on getting the M.2 to be recognized by the Bios, etc?
Thanks

m.2 is in m,2 socket,in bios use boot menu, don`t connect any other drives and load windows

 

[woodworker100]

mick9753:
You said "don`t connect any other drives" ?
Did you disconnect your internal "C" drive and then boot from the Windows Install DVD?

 

[mick9753]

only have m.2 card powered up and install as per normal reconnect other drives after installation

 

[woodworker100]

only have m.2 card powered up and install as per normal reconnect other drives after installation

 

[woodworker100]

Already have Win 7 Pro installed on an internal SSD. Ever hear of anyone migrating an OS onto a new M.2? As in cloning?

 

[mick9753]

no ,didn`t think you could run internal ssd drives on asus-k board. which version do you have? usb 3.1 or other

 

[woodworker100]

Not sure what you are asking, but here goes:
I sm running an Asus Z97K motherboard. Yes it does have both USB 2 and 3. Along with a M.2 socket.
The SSD is a Samsung Evo 255GB and is indeed internally mounted, using one of the 6 available SATA plugs. Works great.
BTW: Fedex has delivered my M.2 (255 GB) drive to someone else's house! And will not start looking for it until next Monday
Bummer !!

 

[mick9753]

just make sure nothing is connected to sata 5&6 because the m.2 card uses these regards mick

 

[woodworker100]

What kind of performance readings are you getting from the M.2 card? Which M.2 unit did you use?
Thanks !

 

[mick9753]

Samsung 850 evo 512gb and have not tested speed but takes 3 seconds to fully boot regards mick

 

[woodworker100]

Mick: did you use a bootable USB drive to get the M.2 ssd setup? If not, what procedure was used?
It is driving me crazy! If you did use a bootable USB device, still have it ? Want to sell it?
Thanks
Tom

 

[mick9753]

no . disconnect all drives and install from dvd and select m.2 as boot drive in bios . connect all other drives after installing .all straight forward regards mick

 

[woodworker100]

I found that if I disconnect the "C" drive, the system will not boot on anything.
Finally found an iso of Win 7 Pro and used Rufus to make a bootable flash drive with Win 7 Pro on it .
Then used the Win7 disk management software to initialize the M.2 whisk is mounted on the PCIe buss via a Lycom DT-120 M.2 PCIe to PCIe 3.0 x4 Adapter .
I can now use the M.2 but cannot get the bios adjusted to allow me to boot from it!
The Samsung SSD that installed earlier give this readings: (Crystal DiskMark)
Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 551.581 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 531.074 MB/s
The M.2 drive, running off the PCIe bus gives the following:
Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 2244.651 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1237.474 MB/s
Now if I can only find the correct bios setup that will allow me to boot from the M.2 !!!
Mickey; Since you have the same motherboard as I , would you mind sending me as much of your bios settings as you can?
Many thanks.
Woodworker100
t.lovleace@pobox.com

 

[mick9753]

have you got the correct m.2 card?. first page bios shows boot drives on right side dvd and boot drive, just below their is boot menu tab click on select m.2card will sent photos in 2or 3 days regards mick

 

[woodworker100]

I do appreciate it ! Just do a series of screen shots of each page in your bios. That should do the trick.
Thanks

 

[mick9753]

photos sent regards mick

 

[woodworker100]

Thanks, Mick ! Where did you send them? it is now 12:30 and I haven't received the photos.

 

[mick9753]

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