J5005 ITX and PCIe SSD

Hello together,

the above motherboard has 1x PCI Express 2.0 slot. Can I put in this slot a PCIe NVMe/AHCI SSD card and boot from there? Supports the BIOS this feature?

thx
Mario

Dear Balz333,

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Let's get into your question, we have checked the J5005-ITX with the following configuration:
1. PCIe x1 to x16 riser card connected to the motherboard.
2. M.2 PCIe adapter connected to the riser card.
3. NVMe M.2 connected to M.2 PCIe adapter.

The system was able to boot into Win10 properly.
*Kindly be aware that different combinations of hardware connected to PCIe slot may have different results.

Hopefully, the information above helps.
With thanks,
ASRock TSD




Edited by ASRock_TSD - 14 Jan 2020 at 11:34am

Fabulous. I was about to ask exactly the same question, starting a new build in 2020.

I'm confident, an ASRock J5005-ITX will make a decent core of a small and effective NAS machine with general purpose server ambitions. It's all about the possibility, to hassle-free boot a NVMe M.2 SSD, adaptered into that PCIe 2.0 x1 slot. The resulting speed may be limited of course, but that's called secondary.

So, thanks too!

Dear Junajo85,

Thanks for posting!

Checking the adapter that you have, it states that it supports the following M.2.

Samsung PM961, 960 EVO, SM961, PM951, SM951, INTEL 600P, LITE-ON T10 NVME-Protokoll M.2.

Try checking with the adapter's vendor to see if MP500 is supported.

Also, while the MP500 is installed, try boot into the system by using the SATA HDD/SSD and check if the system can detect the M.2 disk properly.

With thanks,
ASRock TSD

Edited by ASRock_TSD - 02 Mar 2020 at 11:56am