NVMe M.2 SSD Help

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   I recently purchased a Samsung 970 EVO NVMe M.2 Hard Drive for my PC without doing nearly enough research into it.  I have the Z97 Anniversary board with all 3 PCIe 2.0 and 2 PCI slots available but am having trouble finding an adapter for the EVO.  Any advice/help would be appreciated.

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flood25 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 24 Nov 2019 Status: Offline Points: 3	Post Options Post Reply Quote flood25 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: NVMe M.2 SSD Help Posted: 24 Nov 2019 at 1:59am
	I recently purchased a Samsung 970 EVO NVMe M.2 Hard Drive for my PC without doing nearly enough research into it. I have the Z97 Anniversary board with all 3 PCIe 2.0 and 2 PCI slots available but am having trouble finding an adapter for the EVO. Any advice/help would be appreciated. Thank You

gtom343 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 15 Oct 2019 Location: New York Status: Offline Points: 5	Post Options Post Reply Quote gtom343 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26 Nov 2019 at 8:32pm
	I got an NVME to boot from PCIE slot. The following thread is for z77 but maybe some of it applies to you. Check on Amazon and just pick a PCIE adapter for m.2. I think I got the YATENG but other people have had success with other ones as well. http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=3319&title=z77-extreme-4-nvme-pcie-ssd-booting

gtom343 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 15 Oct 2019 Location: New York Status: Offline Points: 5	Post Options Post Reply Quote gtom343 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26 Nov 2019 at 8:33pm
	Or if you don't need the speed and the associated headache of installing, just get a SATA SSD. I wasn't able to but a lot of people were able to do it seamlessly.

CHnuschti Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 18 Jun 2019 Status: Offline Points: 47	Post Options Post Reply Quote CHnuschti Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 27 Nov 2019 at 7:28pm
	I surely would not go through the headache as suggested 2 posts above and install some "modified" BIOS from third party. According to https://www.asrock.com/MB/Intel/Z97%20Anniversary/index.de.asp#BIOS the newest BIOS supports NVME, so you should be able indeed to boot from that samsung 970 NVME. All you need is a "M.2 to PCIe 2.0 adapter", countless offers everywhere. You can't get the full speed out of that samsung 970: https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/m-2-nvme-ssd-to-pcie-2-0-x16.3395784/ but I wouldn't mind. Aside of better reading/writings speed, in daily operations you mostly can't experience a difference betweens NVME SSDs and standard SATA SSDs.

CHnuschti Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 18 Jun 2019 Status: Offline Points: 47	Post Options Post Reply Quote CHnuschti Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 27 Nov 2019 at 7:34pm
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