Would this M.2 SSD work on my board

[Oday_Abuturk]

So i have a high end old pc and want to get it an ssd only for the OS i found out a cheap M.2 in the shop near(Kingston M.2 SSD UV500 / 120GB [SUV500M8/120G] ) so would it work on my Gigabyte GA-EP43T-UD3L as i have never been into the ssd market before this is my first time.
The board got the Pci ports but would it work from ur experience.

and is this one good enough and fast vs WD green sata 3 ssd?

Thanks a lot for reading.

 

[USAFRet]

So i have a high end old pc and want to get it an ssd only for the OS i found out a cheap M.2 in the shop near(Kingston M.2 SSD UV500 / 120GB [SUV500M8/120G] ) so would it work on my Gigabyte GA-EP43T-UD3L as i have never been into the ssd market before this is my first time.
The board got the Pci ports but would it work from ur experience.

and is this one good enough and fast vs WD green sata 3 ssd?

Thanks a lot for reading.

1. That board has no native m.2 support, either SATA or NVMe
2. You can't boot from an m.2 drive in a PCIe slot.
3. The WD Green SSD is one of the slower SSDs on the market

4. Get a regular 2.5" SATA III SSD. 250GB or larger. Disregard the whole m.2 concept.
Samsung 850 EVO
Samsung 860 EVO
Crucial MX500

 

[why_wolf]

Highly unlikely you could make a PCI drive the boot drive on a board that old. Safer route would to get a SATA SSD instead.

In terms of performance those drives are essentially the same. Both are SATA III drives, the Kingston is just using the M.2 connector. For an actually faster SSD you want a NVMe drive. Though in terms of real world performance its hard for a user to tell the difference between SATA and NVMe speed.

 

[Oday_Abuturk]

Thanks you guys in the beginning i was thinking that the M.2 Drive port is the small pci 1 thing but any way i will get a good 2.5 Sata SSD and again appreciated.