I don't know why it was showing as a USB drive. Maybe it has a controller similar to that of a USB drive. Or it might be something the manufacturer did and did not catch it.. I don't mess with BIOS updates unless I must to get a fix for Logofail but the next update may have that drive named properly. Do you get the expected speed from the drive? If so it is not that much of an issue and is probably just a typo in a table in the BIOS. I would not worry much about it myself unless I had other bizarre issues I could not explain.
I have a card similar to that and they are very basic. The nice thing is it makes those adapters dirt cheap to buy. It wouldn't surprise me if you could buy them in bulk for a lot less than the price of one each. Mine has a green LED on it and really that is the only thing noteworthy. I did not buy it for that or know it has it. I usually don't prioritize any kind of RGB lighting. The inside of my case is a dark dismal place really aside from that and the RTX logo on my graphics card lighting up. My motherboard could support an APU but I just went with a plain old traditional CPU. That is a Ryzen 9 5950x (16 core)
I was going to add that AMD's latest APU, 8600G has great 1080p graphics so you don't need a GPU, therefore the X16 slot that is usually designated for a GPU is now free to use with a storage form factor provided you choose a compatible X16 adaptor.
Some older machines require BIOS mods to support booting directly from NVME drives. I have a Dell 9020MT motherboard and I had to mod the UEFI bios to add a driver so it would support it. Such a mod may not be available for all mobos so kinda risky to try unless you do some research before hand. ;) There are some cards that use bios extensions. This requires having CSM setting enabled in UEFI for those to be bootable if you are on a machine that is primarily UEFI based. The ones you got seem to be simple passive adaptors so you'll need a UEFI/BIOS that supports it natively. Also it looks like you didn't initialize the drive until you put it into the second PC...that might also contribute to it not showing up properly on the first machine. You'll want to recheck how it behaves in the first one now that you initialized it. ;)
You actually dont need the bracket for this. Just slot it in and remove the braket unless your oc has not enough elvents then the braket will be one exhaust. In summary the bracket is not needed for most cases
Nicely done; great job matching photos with the narration. The audio track needs to be a little louder; I had my volume all the way up and still had trouble hearing it.
i was wondering if adding this to my motgherboard would work out because my only available pcie port is directly under my GPU but now I see yours is as well. How is that holding up ? i currently have only a sata drive so this would be alot faster correct?
When using these adapters, should I always put them in an X16 slot or lose potential bandwidth ? What happens when I put one in an X4 slot or smaller? Still works but slower?
If you buy an x4 adapter, and the ssd is x4, and the slot is x4, no bottle necks. If you change the slot to an x1 slot, everything will run at that speed. Whatever is the lowest of the three (adapter, slot, ssd) is will run at the slowest speed
Why go through all the trouble? That old hardware deserves a SATA drive at best. I can tell you from experience, that you'll never come out ahead trying to upgrade old systems to something comparable to newer hardware.
You'll need to mod your BIOS first so it would detect your NVMe as PATA drive in your BIOS, I don't know if there's mod available one for your HP motherboard, but I got one for my ROG Rampage IV, here's the mod link for Rampage IV motherboards ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uZDBBYfsNK8.html (you'll need the mod for NVMe file added to your current/latest BIOS for it to works and bootable)
Well , i buyed 3 of those ( 4XPCIe 3.0 ) Adapters for ~ 7 Dollar over E-Bay (new) . I would be not surprised if they work with PCIe 4.0 as well because there is no chip on the PCB , its only rewireing . Maybe shielding could be a Problem for the PCIe 4.0 signal .Besides , most NVME will run with 2 Lanes or even one Lane and it dont has to be PCIe 3.0 . 2.0 will work to , its only slower . Its a waste of Lanes to use it on a X16 Slot with real 16 Lanes , if the MoBo uses Bifurcation for that slot = supports 4 x 4 Lanes i would consider to buy an Hyper X from Asus Card where you can put 4 NVMEs on it , i consider it for my NAS if i throw out the HDDs and put in SSDs in , with it i could use up to 7 NVMEs in my TrueNAS ( old B450 Board with 3900X on it , 32 GB ECC Ram )
@@OKuusava ? For 40 Dollar 4X PCIe 3.0 NVME or 60 Dollar with 4 x PCIe 4.0 with 4 NVME Slots ? In a NAS you dont need necessarily a GPU , if your old MoBo supports Bifurcation and you need that many NVME an Hyper X is the way cheaper option . And i just found another interresting use for an M2 NVME Slot , there are Adapters for M2 slot to SATA with 6 Ports , just ordered one for my NAS on Ali Express for ~ 20 Dollar . My old B450 in my NAS has only 6 SATA Ports , but 2 NVME Slots , one is my Boot Drive the other one is unused , lifts the possible HDDs/SATA SSDs to 12 The restriction on a consumer Plattform are allways true PCIe Lanes because consumer CPUs have only 24/28 of them , 16 Lanes for the GPU , 4 for an NVME and 4 for the Chipset
There's different flavors of NVMe M.2 drives for specific purposes and it's buyer beware if you're looking for a SSD HDD replacement. A dead giveaway are the prices. It's worth doing some research on these drives so you won't be disappointed by the posted speeds.
For your first machine, you should use the bottom x16 since only 4 lanes are needed. The top slot is x16 wired while secondary slots usually do x8 or x4. Your second machine would be better suited to a SATA SSD. It has SATA 3 ports, which would give significantly better performance than the M.2 limited by x1.
Without knowing the exact motherboard, the second motherboard looked like a late generation LGA 775 platform and would be limited by the SATA 2 3Gbps speeds provided from the ICH (SATA 3 6Gbps not yet available). The PCIe 1 x1 slots runs at 2.5Gbps and is also connected to the ICH
@@saccharide Unless I got confused with 3Gbps there was some point in the video that gave me the idea it was SATA 3 6Gbps, I'll skim and edit in a timestamp if I find it.
UNFORMATED NvME DOESN'T DETECT IN BIOS. IT ONLY DETECTS WHEN WINDOWS BOOTS. ONCE FORMATED & PARTITIONED IT DETECTS IN BIOS TOO BUT YOUR BIOS MUST BE UPDATED.
