I’m intrigued by these new style high performance SSD drives which kind of look like memory modules.
My board looks like this. Not sure if any of those short slots labeled PCIe x 1,2,3 or the MSATA slot will take this drive.
Can these two things work together? PC is an HP Pavilion i3 basic desktop model.
No. Your motherboard doesn’t have an m.2 PCIe slot (or m.2 SATA slot).
But you do have an m-SATA slot in that photo. Lots of SSDs are available for that, just not the one you linked.
Looks like you’ll need the Lycom adapter as shown in the “Frequently Bought Together” section to plug it into a PCIe slot.
No promises that it will work well without having the specific model PC - HP has been making “Pavillion” machines for years.
You’ve got plenty of room in your case : I recently did a “portable” desktop PC build, and I just used conventional 2.5" SSDs. The reason is that those M.2 slots actually consume 2 SATA ports.
It’s cool that they now look like sticks of memory, but the packaging for things like 500gb Samsung EVOs are incredibly thin and light. The conventional packaging even protects the circuit traces inside from an inadvertent scratch with a screwdriver and finger oil, versus leaving it exposed with the M.2. drives. (not a huge deal, but damaging the device that has all your data on it is a bad thing)
I wouldn’t bother with an adapter, that’s something else to go wrong.
Here’s one. These are the same form factor as 2.5 inch SATA hard disks, so as long as your computer will take one of those, this one will drop right in.
Nah. That’s just SATA. This is one.
gotpasswords has the correct answer. The SATA drives top out at 6.0Gb/s, and in practice most drives will deliver 550MB/sec. A PCIe 3.0 x4 adapter has 4x985MB/s, around 31GB/s.
Here is a review of the drive you linked, used with a PCIe adapter. According to them:
Make sure you put this in the x16 slot if you go this route.
