Timeline for Can an nvme/m.2 card be adding as an additional drive to any motherboard?
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| Oct 26, 2021 at 15:48 | comment | added | Mokubai♦ | An M.2 card can be added to any motherboard that has an M.2 slot. You can also buy a PCIe to M.2 adaptor and connect it that way, but it may be that you cannot boot from it (might need motherboard support) but the device should be usable within your OS. | |
| Oct 26, 2021 at 15:23 | comment | added | Andrew Morton | @SuperJayRay An NVMe drive would have the advantage that you would also be able to use it in a new computer if you get one with a suitable spare slot, and then it would run at its full speed. For Windows 7, if that's what the computer is running, you can download an NVMe driver. | |
| Oct 26, 2021 at 15:22 | comment | added | Ramhound | Your unlikely going to be able to boot to any drive connected to a NVMe PCIe adapter card. If you want to boot off a SSD you should get a SATA SSD. If your machine has BIOS firmware instead of UEFI then it will NOT work. | |
| Oct 26, 2021 at 15:18 | comment | added | SuperNormalDev | @Ramhound Thanks! So an nvme card is compatible with an unsupported motherboard (optiplex) via PCIE 2.0? I have a buddy who tried to use it as a boot drive and his optiplex motherboard didn't recognize it. I'm just trying to use it as an additional drive though. | |
| Oct 26, 2021 at 15:16 | comment | added | SuperNormalDev | @user1686 Yes, with Sata SSDs. There are different devices though. NVME is not compatible with BIOS boot on older motherboards. So my question is if it is even possible to use it with an unsupported BIOS at all, not as a boot drive but as an extra drive. | |
| Oct 26, 2021 at 14:57 | comment | added | Ramhound | PCIE 2.0 x1 is 500 MB/sec which is the likely bandwidth that will be offered using an adapter card. So it would actually be slower than a SATA III SSD if that is true. | |
| Oct 26, 2021 at 14:55 | comment | added | grawity_u1686 | NVMe cards are SSDs. Are you comparing them to SATA SSDs? | |
| S Oct 26, 2021 at 14:44 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Oct 26, 2021 at 14:44 | history | asked | SuperNormalDev | CC BY-SA 4.0 |