Recently decided to purchase an SSD (Plextor M8Pe, M.2 NVMe SSD PCIe 3.0 x4 with 1T) but didn't notice the format M.2 cannot be plugged directly onto my ASUS P8Z86-V PRO/Gen3 Motherboard.Thus I bought an X4 PCI Express to M.2 PCIe SSD Adapter to plug it on my board.
I noticed I have an PCIe 2.0 x16 slot that is compatible to run x4 and x1 modes to be used with PCIe x1 and x4 devices and I read somewhere that running a PCIe 3.0 device on a PCIe 2.0 would only cause lower performance. So I thought I was grand.
However I cannot find it in my BIOS nor when I boot from Windows Installation device. Strangely enough it shows up with a Plextor screen during booting (illiterate AF here), so it somehow recognize the drive but it just wont show.
I already have a GPU plugged in at my PCIEx16_1 and tried plugging the adapter into PCIEx16_3 (the black one) so it shouldn't be a case of shared bandwidth.
I already run 2x HDDs in my SATAs - don't think it matters in this case but just in case.
Anyone could provide me some tips or answers?
Quick access to specs:
Motherboard: ASUS P8Z68-V PRO GEN 3
http://www.cizgi.com.tr/upload/pms_dosya/287/e6850_p8z68-v_pro_gen3.pdf
Plextor P8Pe, M.2 NVMe SSD
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16820249087
StarTech X4 PCI Express to M.2 PCIe SSD Adapter
https://www.startech.com/HDD/Adapters/pci-express-m2-pcie-ssd-adapter~PEX4M2E1
I noticed I have an PCIe 2.0 x16 slot that is compatible to run x4 and x1 modes to be used with PCIe x1 and x4 devices and I read somewhere that running a PCIe 3.0 device on a PCIe 2.0 would only cause lower performance. So I thought I was grand.
However I cannot find it in my BIOS nor when I boot from Windows Installation device. Strangely enough it shows up with a Plextor screen during booting (illiterate AF here), so it somehow recognize the drive but it just wont show.
I already have a GPU plugged in at my PCIEx16_1 and tried plugging the adapter into PCIEx16_3 (the black one) so it shouldn't be a case of shared bandwidth.
I already run 2x HDDs in my SATAs - don't think it matters in this case but just in case.
Anyone could provide me some tips or answers?
Quick access to specs:
Motherboard: ASUS P8Z68-V PRO GEN 3
http://www.cizgi.com.tr/upload/pms_dosya/287/e6850_p8z68-v_pro_gen3.pdf
Plextor P8Pe, M.2 NVMe SSD
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16820249087
StarTech X4 PCI Express to M.2 PCIe SSD Adapter
https://www.startech.com/HDD/Adapters/pci-express-m2-pcie-ssd-adapter~PEX4M2E1
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