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Dell XPS 8900 and Lycom DT-120 M.2 PCIe to PCIe 3.0 x4 Adapter
Am having trouble getting the XPS to recognize this adapter and the SSD drive attached.
- Lycom DT-120 M.2 PCIe to PCIe 3.0 x4 Adapter
- MyDigitalSSD 480GB (512GB) BP5e 80mm SATA III 6G M.2 2280 NGFF SSD
I planed the MyDigitalSSD drive in the M.2 slot, and successfully installed OS and made it a boot drive (off the M.2 slot).
Now, I would really like to make use of the PCIe adapter. Any help and pointers would be appreciated.
speedstep
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December 19th, 2016 08:00
The my digital SSD is B keyed and therefore NOT PCI-E. Its SATA.
M2 is not M2 is not M2.
Only M2 PCI-E keyed units work with PCI-E.
The way universal cards handle this is to have a SATA connector for the B keyed devices.
This adapter has both Your adapter is only for Mkeyed and will NEVER EVER work with the SSD you chose.
https://www.amazon.com/NGFF-Both-PCI-E-Adapter-Converter/dp/B01IEGSFN0/
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December 19th, 2016 09:00
thank you for the clear response.
speedstep
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December 19th, 2016 10:00
I did the same thing you did not knowing about the Mkeyed vs Bkeyed.
What I did was to adapt the adapter to sata to adapt the adaptor.
I converted my Bkeyed Sata back to 2.5 inch sata. Then put the sata drive on a different PCI-E controller.
Onboard sata was 250meg data. PCI-E X4 Sata is 500meg data thruput.
https://www.amazon.com/Andiny-Socket2-NGFF-Adapter-Aluminum/dp/B01N9CS05P/
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/SSDACL6G.S/