01-01-2017 01:37 PM - last edited 3 weeks ago by ROGBot
01-02-2017 04:52 AM
Adrian1976 wrote:
Hi Guy's I'm about to purchase this https://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/harddrives-internal/ssdsolidstate/pciexpress/mz-v6e50... ssd, does this work fine with Maximus VIII hero also am I right in understanding SATA ports 1+2 will be disabled with this drive fitted ? can I move my 3 current SSD's to ports 3 onwards ?
01-02-2017 05:38 AM
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01-03-2017 05:58 PM
Adrian1976 wrote:
thanks guy's didn't realise the ports could still be used, didn't know that if it was NVME it didn't take bandwidth from the ports ? I take it's direct access from PCIE ?
01-05-2017 01:31 PM
Brigman wrote:
Yep I'm using an NVMe 960 Evo as a boot drive and have full use of all the SATA ports. The different connectivity permutations on these boards are a bit confusing! 🙂 Using a PCIe NVMe drive does theoretically take some bandwidth from the offboard ports, just not quite in the way you are thinking.
The board has two SATA Express ports. Connecting an M2 PCIe NVMe drive will disable the 'express' part of these two ports and turn them into regular SATA interfaces.
So, in practice, if you have your PCIe NVMe drive in the M2 slot, you can still use all eight conventional SATA ports, you just can't connect SATA Express devices. 🙂
01-07-2017 05:11 PM
Adrian1976 wrote:
That cleared it up, it's a bit confusing in the manual it just says it disables ports 1+2 when using the M2 slot.