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Alienware Aurora R7 - Dual M.2 NVMe SSD Possible?
Just curious if it is possible to have dual M.2 NVMe SSD on Z370 motherboard. I can see there are two M.2 slots, one for M.2 NVMe SSD ("primary") and the other one for wireless card ("secondary"). Dual M.2 NVMe SSD sounds a fairly interesting future upgrade, so my question is, for the secondary slot, whether BIOS is keyed for wireless card only or not.
If not, can I install two SSD's in RAID 0? And I suppose a PCIe WIFI adapter would be necessary since the original wireless card is removed.
Any thoughts or experiences? Thx!
Tesla1856
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April 24th, 2018 20:00
1. Not that I know of
2. Right
3. Pretty sure that is instead a miniPCIe slot
You could stick another SSD in a real PCIe addin slot down below. No, I don't recommend a RAID-0.
Fishery
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July 21st, 2018 10:00
I don't have the needs of two ssds but I want to make use of the optane card and HDD drive.
Fishery
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July 21st, 2018 10:00
Hi Tesla,
I purchased the r7 with 2t hdd + optane days ago and was considering switching to ssd. I saw a lot of your posts in ssd related stuff which is very helpful but I'm a little bit confused for this question. I saw someone on a chinese forum saying that he used an pcie to m.2 card (something like this I assume) for pm981 and it works.
Original link(https://www.chiphell.com/thread-1852719-1-1.html
Tesla1856
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July 21st, 2018 11:00
I have no real-life experience with Optane hardware or modules (just what I read). I simply don't have any Optane modules. When I bought my Aurora-R6, I decided to use its only M.2-PCIe/NVMe slot for a nice 512gb PM-961 SSD.
A SSD on a PCIe Addin card should basically work (ie, appear to Windows) ... even while using the motherboard's on-board M.2/PCIe slot for an Optane module. I think the real question is can it be Windows bootable in this config on this particular machine. And if it can't be, would you still say " it's working" ?
Let us know how it goes, and then we will all know. :Smile:
Fishery
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July 21st, 2018 14:00
Thank you so much for reply! What I was thinking is to use 970evo as main drive while putting optane to the secondary m.2 slot. The optane is essentailly a m.2 ssd