[SOLVED] SSD Drive Install Question Problem

[dadalka]

I'm running a Asus ROG Strix Z690-A Gaming WIFI D4 Motherboard. I have three Sata drives running now. One Sata drive is C: drive I wamt to replace it with a Crucial P5 2TB PCIe M.2 2280SS SSD. Which slot do I use and will there be a problem reading my other two Sata drives which are used for storage. One is storage and one is for using VMWare for Linux.

 

[USAFRet]

The Crucial P5 is a PCIe 3.0 x4 device.
It will work in 3 of the M.2 ports, all 4 if you have a 12th Gen CPU.
https://www.crucial.com/products/ssd/crucial-p5-ssd

https://rog.asus.com/motherboards/rog-strix/rog-strix-z690-a-gaming-wifi-d4-model/spec
The spec sheet for the motherboard does not state that any of the SATA ports are disabled, but do verify this in the user manual.

 

[dadalka]

The CPU is 12th Gen Intel i9-12900K. Is this ok?

 

[USAFRet]

The CPU is 12th Gen Intel i9-12900K. Is this ok?

Yes.
That drive will work in any of the 4x M.2 ports.

 

[dadalka]

The reason I'm asking if the Sata Drives will still read is when I installed the mother board I couldn't get the main sata drive to boot and Asus support couldn't figure it out. They refereed me to Microsoft which was a hand off. New drive configuration would be C;\Win11 (SSD), D:\ Data (Sata), E:\Virtual Drive (Sata). Do you see a problem in doing it this way.

 

[USAFRet]

The reason I'm asking if the Sata Drives will still read is when I installed the mother board I couldn't get the main sata drive to boot and Asus support couldn't figure it out. They refereed me to Microsoft which was a hand off. New drive configuration would be C;\Win11 (SSD), D:\ Data (Sata), E:\Virtual Drive (Sata). Do you see a problem in doing it this way.

Yes, the drives will still read.

But if you transplanted a drive+OS from a different system, not booting in the new system is a common outcome.

A new motherboard generally requires a fresh Windows OS install.
Linux is more forgiving.

 

[dadalka]

This is what I'm planning on buying Crucial 2TB M.2 SSD • PCIe NVMe Gen 4 • 6600 MB/s Read, 5000 MB/s

 

[USAFRet]

This is what I'm planning on buying Crucial 2TB M.2 SSD • PCIe NVMe Gen 4 • 6600 MB/s Read, 5000 MB/s

https://www.crucial.com/ssd/p5/CT2000P5SSD8
The Crucial P5 is a Gen 3.0 x4.

 

[dadalka]

USAFRet Thanks for your help.

 

[rwh531]

Yes, the drives will still read.

But if you transplanted a drive+OS from a different system, not booting in the new system is a common outcome.

A new motherboard generally requires a fresh Windows OS install.
Linux is more forgiving.

I am using the same board he is and i believe sata 5 and 6 get disabled with the use of certain nvme slots, also windows 11 seems to be much more forgiving when it comes to transplanting a drive without reinstalling windows