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I think I can help with the "flddly"-ness part: there's a small screw that comes undone from the top of the entire nut. U'll need to hold the nut in place with something like a pair of pliers and then use a screwdriver on the screw. I think securing the card after that becomes quite...

Thanks. It seems quite straightforward.

Yes, that is what I meant. Sorry for the confusion. The one I bought is a M.2 SATA III SSD and that's what I meant won't work.

It might work on the X99-A but mine is a deluxe and both ASUS and experience have both confirmed that SATA SSDs (HDDs are fine ofc) will NOT work with the X99-Deluxe. How do I update the BIOS if I don't have Windows installed yet?

I've called Samsung and they confirmed that the one I found on Amazon cannot be non-OEM. They reiterated what you're saying that all XP941 drives are OEM :( I'm only worried about the off-chance that something would go wrong with the OEM SSD down the road and I would end up getting stuck with...

So the 941 I linked earlier is an OEM? It doesn't say so in the item title. I have sent a question to the seller asking them and hopefully I'll hear back from them soon (EDIT: they answered back saying it's not). In the case that they're all OEM, what would the consensus be in here about which...

That's an OEM though. I wouldn't get any kind of Samsung support for it. Unless I get some overwhelming opposition to that non-OEM Samsung by tomorrow morning, I'll go ahead and get it.

I've managed to find a "Samsung XP941 MZHPU512HCGM; M.2 (NGFF) 2280 PCIe X4 Gen2 SSD, XP941-512G, Max. Transfer rate= 20Gbps" on Amazon. Would that work? Reason I'm not too keen on Plextor is its Seq./Random Read/Write speeds; Samsung beats it almost all fronts.

Thanks for the info. Yes, that was entirely my mistake not to thoroughly examine/research that part. RE: My signature; I don't know why it's not showing. I've skimmed through the settings thinking that was some kind of signature activation option I needed to do but couldn't find anything...

So, I just bought the X-99 along with some other high-end stuff last week (as can be seen in my signature) and everything is working fine apart from the SSD (which is not listed - a Transcend MTS600 SATA III M.2). As it turns out, the SSD I bought isn't compatible with the MB - it requires...