Hello,
I have a fairly old motherboard, MSI Z97 Gaming 5 and would like to put in an M.2 drive while the board does have an M.2 slot it is an older interface. I was thinking of possibly getting a PCIe adapter card and stick that in.
Currently I have an SSD for the boot drive an a HDD for my data (all game data). Would this be a viable short term? I plan to get a new system Q1 of next year so the m.2 drive would move over there. My concern is I do not want to impact the Video card so I am not clear on if sticking another card in a PCIe slot would be bad. The thing here is I have money to burn now that I may not have later.
Thanks
I have a fairly old motherboard, MSI Z97 Gaming 5 and would like to put in an M.2 drive while the board does have an M.2 slot it is an older interface. I was thinking of possibly getting a PCIe adapter card and stick that in.
Currently I have an SSD for the boot drive an a HDD for my data (all game data). Would this be a viable short term? I plan to get a new system Q1 of next year so the m.2 drive would move over there. My concern is I do not want to impact the Video card so I am not clear on if sticking another card in a PCIe slot would be bad. The thing here is I have money to burn now that I may not have later.
Thanks