[SOLVED] Why is my M.2 drive being recognized as an SSD?

[Tug Thuemmel]

I have recently bought and installed a HP EX900 250gb Storage M.2 and have installed it to my Motherboard (Gigabtye b450m ds3h), but when i ran userbenchmark it said my M.2 is way below average, and when i go into my files, it reads it as a SSD. does anyone know how i could configure this? the HP driver page says that its always down

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

HP EX900 M.2 250GB PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe 3D TLC NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) 2YY43AA#ABC

 

[Calvin7]

Poor performance may be the result of a faulty installation of Windows 10. There is an installation guide in this thread:

Can't boot from M.2 NVMe SSD

I had a Samsung 850 SSD (SATA) with Windows 10 on it. I bought Samsung 970 SSD (M.2). Turned off the computer, plugged it in, inserted a bootable USB stick with Windows 10 on it. Went directly to BIOS and changed boot priority to boot from the stick. Then, I installed Windows 10 on the new drive...

forums.tomshardware.com

 

[Tug Thuemmel]

I can boot from windows 10, its just not recognising it as an m.2 . is there any way i can make it run as an m.2?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Basically every M.2 is SSD.
So, when you're complaining about your drive being recognized as SSD, then this doesn't really make any sense. Yes it's SSD - as every other M.2 drive.
(Well - maybe only Intel Optane memory is slightly different product - not classic SSD technology).

 

[karenjoly]

The description of the drive states clearly it is an ssd and an M.2 drive and you should know, you placed it in the M.2 slot in the mainboard. The user site is a very poor judge of these things so run CrystalDiskMark ver 6 and post a screen capture of the read and write speeds for the drive.

 

[Tug Thuemmel]

I downloaded CrystalDiskMark, and it turned out my M.2 was just 80% full with slowed it down.