First Time Builder M.2 Question?

[newbietube]

Hello,

I am building a new machine and I have a question. I'd like to have two M.2 drives in the build.

I am going with the Asus STRIX Z270G Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard, if I use two M.2 drives with this motherboard, will there be any performance or limiting issues?

I have heard that if you go with two M.2's on certain motherboards, the performance of the drives will drop.

Thank you in advance for your help.

 

[t53186]

Doubt that you would see any effect on the speed of the drives. You would need to have a very intensive demand for data from both drives simultaneously to even make them work to full potential.

 

[Sean_34]

The PCIe slots are allocated a certain amount of bandwidth so I don't know why you'd see a lag in performance for having two. But, as I type this, i suppose NVMe software is still being debugged. If you were to have any problems, I'm sure you'd see updates that will fix it in the future. That's all a part of 1st adopters.

Take it with a grain of salt, but I think i've read that you'll only see hardware throttling is if heat rises after transfer of large files, like hundreds of gigs at one time.

I think you'll be okay.

 

[newbietube]

The PCIe slots are allocated a certain amount of bandwidth so I don't know why you'd see a lag in performance for having two. But, as I type this, i suppose NVMe software is still being debugged. If you were to have any problems, I'm sure you'd see updates that will fix it in the future. That's all a part of 1st adopters.

Take it with a grain of salt, but I think i've read that you'll only see hardware throttling is if heat rises after transfer of large files, like hundreds of gigs at one time.

I think you'll be okay.

Thank you!