Okay so I know some basics and my knowledge is dated by about a decade (Fair warning).
I bought this computer a few years ago and the motherboard is a g1.sniper-z170 and I am not sure if I understand correctly so just wanted to clarify a few things and then ask my questions.
According to manual: https://download.gigabyte.com/FileList/Manual/mb_manual_g1.sniper-z170_e.pdf
It looks like I have one m2 slot, in which there is a 500gb ssd installed in (Windows / gaming drive: SanDisk 512GB 2.5" and M.2 SSD),
I also have a 7200rpm one terabyte back up data dump hard drive I keep old music and pictures on (I do not want more of these types of drives).
Maybe I am missing something but many of the hard drives I see advertised at decent prices and high speed (Samsung Evo 970) look like they need to go in that little m2 slot.
I keep reading about pci-x hard drives that use 2/4/8, but when I look them up, they are 1000$ and more for less than a terabyte of space (These look to be the size of a video card that will go in the slots near the pci-x 16x slot (The video card is in). Why are these so expensive?
Am I missing something, is there some way to have more of these M2 hard drives beyond that one slot hook up I seem to have, is there a way to utilize my pci x slots for them without buying these ridiculous sized and priced video card sized hard drives? I really wanted to get some more + faster storage in this thing and was wondering if I am just confused and not realizing my options. I've been out of the game awhile the whole m2 / nvme / pci-x slots are confusing me. Any help appreciated.
I bought this computer a few years ago and the motherboard is a g1.sniper-z170 and I am not sure if I understand correctly so just wanted to clarify a few things and then ask my questions.
According to manual: https://download.gigabyte.com/FileList/Manual/mb_manual_g1.sniper-z170_e.pdf
It looks like I have one m2 slot, in which there is a 500gb ssd installed in (Windows / gaming drive: SanDisk 512GB 2.5" and M.2 SSD),
I also have a 7200rpm one terabyte back up data dump hard drive I keep old music and pictures on (I do not want more of these types of drives).
Maybe I am missing something but many of the hard drives I see advertised at decent prices and high speed (Samsung Evo 970) look like they need to go in that little m2 slot.
I keep reading about pci-x hard drives that use 2/4/8, but when I look them up, they are 1000$ and more for less than a terabyte of space (These look to be the size of a video card that will go in the slots near the pci-x 16x slot (The video card is in). Why are these so expensive?
Am I missing something, is there some way to have more of these M2 hard drives beyond that one slot hook up I seem to have, is there a way to utilize my pci x slots for them without buying these ridiculous sized and priced video card sized hard drives? I really wanted to get some more + faster storage in this thing and was wondering if I am just confused and not realizing my options. I've been out of the game awhile the whole m2 / nvme / pci-x slots are confusing me. Any help appreciated.