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M.2 SSD on Fatal1ty z97x Killer?

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Topic: M.2 SSD on Fatal1ty z97x Killer?

Posted By: rfvasquez
Subject: M.2 SSD on Fatal1ty z97x Killer?
Date Posted: 26 May 2017 at 3:31am

" rel="nofollow - I have the Fatal1ty Z97X Killer Mobo, and I want to add a Samsun evo 960Pro M.2 SSD, and I know that the M.2 socket on this board does not support this generation. Will it work if I get an M.2 PCI adapter?

Thanks

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Posted By: ASRock_TSD
Date Posted: 02 Jun 2017 at 2:58pm

Dear Rfvasquez,

Thank you for contacting ASRock.

Fatal1ty Z97X Killer supports one M.2 PCIe Gen2 x2(10Gb/s) slots, supports NVMe device since BIOS P2.50.

Because we don?�t have 960 EVO in our lab, we tested Samsung SM961 on Fatal1ty Z97X Killer, system can detected SM961 properly.

BIOS P2.50 download link: http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Fatal1ty%20Z97X%20Killer/%3ccat=Download&os=BIOS" rel="nofollow - http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Fatal1ty%20Z97X%20Killer/?cat=Download&os=BIOS

If you want to use the full speed of Samsung 960 EVO, please use the M.2 adapter card, then your 960 EVO can work at PCIe 3.0 x4.

Thank you!

Yours truly,

ASRock TSD

Posted By: DoctorROCK147
Date Posted: 22 May 2018 at 11:08pm

So when you say it supports nvme do you mean it can read and write nvme at nvme speeds or does it just recognize nvme and runs at normal ssd speeds.... Just curious.

Posted By: moe.ron
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2018 at 11:57pm

" rel="nofollow - Any luck with the Samsung 960 M2?

Posted By: w3rty88
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2020 at 5:33pm

hello guys :) I bump the thread because I have a similar problem with my mobo - ssd/nvme

http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=13895&PID=73713𑿱