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Question M.2 connector and MVNE

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Jerethi

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Greetings,

I'm trying to figure out if my motherboard's M.2 connector supports NVMe. I think it does, but may need a second opinion! I have a Gigabyte B360 HD3.

According to the manual, I have two M.2 connectors:

- 1 x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2242/2260/2280/22110 SATA and PCIe x4/x2 SSD support) (M2A_32G)
- 1 x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2242/2260/2280 SATA and PCIe x2 SSD support) (M2P_16G)

It appears that the first connector supports PCIe x4. Does that mean it supports NVMe?

Thanks!
 
Jerethi said:
Greetings,

I'm trying to figure out if my motherboard's M.2 connector supports NVMe. I think it does, but may need a second opinion! I have a Gigabyte B360 HD3.

According to the manual, I have two M.2 connectors:

- 1 x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2242/2260/2280/22110 SATA and PCIe x4/x2 SSD support) (M2A_32G)
- 1 x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2242/2260/2280 SATA and PCIe x2 SSD support) (M2P_16G)

It appears that the first connector supports PCIe x4. Does that mean it supports NVMe?
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They both support NVMe drives. However, the first one supports the faster x4 speeds (which you want to use with PCIe 3.0 x4 drives like the 970 EVO).
 
Ajay said:
On Gigabyte's website, it list this under 'Storage':


So just SATA, not NVMe.
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Here is what is listed under the specs for the motherboard listed in the OP:

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It listed two M.2 slot, with one supporting PCIe x4 and the 2nd one supporting x2.
 
Quote from the motherboards page
"Dual Ultra-Fast M.2 with PCIe Gen3 X4/X2 & SATA interface "
First M.2 slot is PCIe Gen3 X4 speed
Second slot is PCIe Gen3 X2 speed
 
Jerethi said:
Greetings,

I'm trying to figure out if my motherboard's M.2 connector supports NVMe. I think it does, but may need a second opinion! I have a Gigabyte B360 HD3.

According to the manual, I have two M.2 connectors:

- 1 x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2242/2260/2280/22110 SATA and PCIe x4/x2 SSD support) (M2A_32G)
- 1 x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2242/2260/2280 SATA and PCIe x2 SSD support) (M2P_16G)

It appears that the first connector supports PCIe x4. Does that mean it supports NVMe?

Thanks!
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It means you have one socket that will run nvme @x4 and the 2nd on x2, check your manual, some boards can be limited depending on how many sata ports are populated, eg...sata 1 & 2 might be shared with m.2 slot 1 and 5-6 shared with slot 2
 
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