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M.2 NVMe SSDs placed in external bay

Sun Jul 11, 2021 7:10 pm

I have been using external 5.25" bay to house 2.5" hds and SSDs. In newly assembled machine, in addition to the 5.25" bay I placed two M.2 NVMe SSDs in an 3.5" external bay. I used the M.2 socket to SFF-8643 connecter to interface M.2 socket on the motherboard and the M.2 NVMe SSDs. The two M.2 devices are recognized by Disk Mngment as shown.
I could restore W10 backup but it fails to boot. Error message was "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key"
I could access the M.2 devices from W10 which was booted from the SATA SSD. Read speeds were about 1GB/s and 1.5GB/s respectively thus not as fast as they are supposed to be.

Ryzen 5 5600X cpu on Gigabyte AORA X570 Ultra motherboad is used for this machine.

Any suggestion is appreciated.
 
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Re: M.2 NVMe SSDs placed in external bay

Mon Jul 12, 2021 7:13 am

Is there a reason not to put the boot NVME in one of the motherboard M2 slots?
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Re: M.2 NVMe SSDs placed in external bay

Mon Jul 12, 2021 5:03 pm

K-L-Waster wrote:
Is there a reason not to put the boot NVME in one of the motherboard M2 slots?

I have to admit that you are not the first person who asked that question.
I have many resons:
I do not want to use my system for regular use just for testing an application software.
There are sometimes application softwares which cannot coexist on the same system, thus needing a different system.
W10 is essentially multi-language system, but there are apps which are particular about language version of the OS. Thus I need to have a system of language versions other than English.
I have two other desktop machines which are set up in the same manner as the main machine. It is easier to trouble-shoot any of them.
Etc., etc.
Presently I have 8 SATA SSDs each on which W10 and apps are installed. I want to do the same with M.2 NVMe SSDs.
 
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Re: M.2 NVMe SSDs placed in external bay

Tue Jul 13, 2021 7:12 am

To be honest, I think you'd have better luck doing all the things you describe in Virtual Machines rather than a swappable boot SSD.

1) Install the main boot SSD in the motherboard (sidestepping all the issues you're having with external drive bays)
2) Create multiple VMs (one for each test configuration) and store them on any of your storage drives

This way you can keep the incompatible software and different language setups independent of one another and can still swap between them easily. If your system has enough CPU and RAM, you can even run the VMs concurrently rather than having to shut down and swap drive media.
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