Question Will a SSD drive that plugs into a mobo slot work in my mobo .. Sabretooth Z77 ??

[winr]

Going to buy an SDD and use it for boot drive with Windows 10 PRO

SABERTOOTH Z77 - Support

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Something like this or ??

Are you a human?

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Thanks



Ricky.

 

[UsandThem]

That motherboard doesn't have a M.2 slot.

You could buy a PCIe M.2 add-in card, and it likely would work (BIOS needs to support it). However, you're better off just buying a 2.5" SATA SSD (cheaper, will work for sure, and you won't notice any difference especially on an older chipset motherboard without native NVMe support).

 

[winr]

Ahhh, thanks much....... trying to get up to speed on SSD drives and such ....



Ricky.

 

[UsandThem]

Ahhh, thanks much....... trying to get up to speed on SSD drives and such ....

I'd just buy a 500 GB drive such as the Samsung 850 EVO, Crucial MX500, WD Blue 3D NAND, or SK Hynix Gold S31 drive. They all are in the $50 - $60 range.

If you don't have a SSD now, they are the absolute best upgrade you can make to your PC. They all will make it super-responsive compared to a hard drive.

 

[ElFenix]

you'd need a custom bios as z77 doesn't support nvme boot natively. it's possible that someone has done this work already and posted it for download along with instructions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/3z8ba8

 

[john3850]

I have a ASRock extreme 4 z77 boot up a HP EX950 M.2 2280 in pci_e slot.
I used the latest bios and the m2 must be set to GPT not MBR.