Question about M2 card
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Topic: Question about M2 card
Posted By: Fishybass55
Subject: Question about M2 card
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2020 at 9:12pm
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Hello, I'm building a new pc with mb ASRock B450M PRO4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard. I'm wondering what M2 slot this should be installed into WD Blue 3D NAND 500GB Internal SSD - SATA III 6Gb/s M.2 2280 Solid State Drive - WDS500G2B0B Thank you |
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Posted By: gizmic
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2020 at 11:30pm
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please go with the superior nvme/pcie m.2 ------------- 
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Posted By: Fishybass55
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2020 at 3:07am
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Okay thank you for the response. I'm still a bit confused as to whether this goes into the M2_1 or M2_2 slot. Thank you for any follow-up |
Posted By: Ray62
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2020 at 3:17am
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- 1 x Ultra M.2 Socket (M2_1), supports M Key type 2242/2260/2280 M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen3 x4 (32 Gb/s) (with Matisse, Picasso, Summit Ridge, Raven Ridge and Pinnacle Ridge) or Gen3 x2 (16 Gb/s) (with Athlon 2xxGE series APU) - 1 x M.2 Socket (M2_2), supports M Key type 2230/2242/2260/2280 M.2 SATA3 6.0 Gb/s module *M2_2 and SATA3_3 share lanes. If either one of them is in use, the other one will be disabled. The WDS500G2B0B is a SATA M2 SSD, so you have to use it with M2_2. ------------- Asrock Fatal1ty X370 Professional Gaming Offline Under test: MSI X570_MEG_ACE | AMD Ryzen 9 3900X | Scythe Mugen5 | 2x16GB F4-3200C14D-32GTZ@3466 | ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FE |
Posted By: Fishybass55
Date Posted: 13 Feb 2020 at 3:28am
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Thank you for your response. That's what I suspected but you cleared up the confusion I had |
Posted By: snalls
Date Posted: 23 Oct 2020 at 3:42am
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ASRock B450M PRO4 Motherboard. I installed the WD Blue 3D NAND 500GB Internal SSD - SATA III 6Gb/s M.2 2280 Solid State Drive - WDS500G2B0B but it?™s not recognized in the bios nor on Windows 10 OS. I?™ve spent too many hours reading online posts, help posts on your website and watching YouTube videos, following all instructions without any success. Is this M.2 drive compatible with ASRock B450M PRO4 Motherboard? If yes, please help as I am so frustrated. I installed a 4G/bs WD Sata non-m.2 drive which works perfectly. As the M.2 drive was not recognized in bios I couldn?™t boot from that drive. I tried removing the non-m.2 drive and left the M.2 drive to see if it would be recognized in the bios but nothing. Thank you |
Posted By: snalls
Date Posted: 23 Oct 2020 at 11:17pm
| Any help with my post is greatly appreciated...please and thank you. |
Posted By: MrFocuz
Date Posted: 13 Jan 2021 at 9:17pm
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Hey mate, I recently just built mine with the B450m steel legend, I have the same M.2 drive, its a 500gb green Nand ssd, it doesn't show in windows installer, or bios, i tried updating my bios and it didn't work, I took my 2tb HHD out to try and force it to recognise and still no luck, I tried putting it in the lower slot and alas nothing, I'm assuming it only supports NVME drives and not NAND, if you have any answers or wanna work it out together, shoot me an email, andy help would be greatly appreciated tommcgowan573@gmail.com |
Posted By: Blop
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2021 at 9:03am
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Hey, I was reading up on some forums and found out that its is reoccuring issue with other builders and I came across this in some forums, hope this helps: http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1236&title=how-to-install-windows-on-a-pcie-ssd https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/cant-boot-from-m-2-nvme-ssd.3365143/ |