Refer to Chapter 3, “Configuring a RAID Set,” for instructions on configuring a RAID array. Please note that an M.2 PCIe SSD cannot be used to create a RAID array. The M.2 connector supports M.2 SATA SSDs and M.2 PCIe SSDs and supports SATA RAID configuration through the AMD Chipset. It says, due to the limited number of lanes provided by the Chipset, this motherboard will limit the SATA connection. Your ASATA 0 and ASATA 1 port will not be detected. If you have SSD via the M.2 using PCIex4 connector, which is what I have. It has a chart table described a short come behaviour you’d normally not expect when you build and plug things with the motherboard. However, what I failed to read is further down in the user manual of this motherboard. And in addition to that there are 6 SATA 6 Gb/s connectors, theoretically would allow me to connect up to 6 hard drive via the SATA interface.

Note, if you read the motherboard manual, it stated the storage interface for this motherboard supports 1x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2242/2260/2280/22110, SATA and PCIe x4/x2 SSD support). Here is what I found:Ībove is the layout of my Gigabyte motherboard, and such layout is fairly common to not only the B350 chipset motherboard but also applies to some of the other AMD’s newer chipset like X370, B450, X470, and B550 motherboards. This past week I took-a-stab try to figure out why I cannot run HDD when M.2 SSD is connected. Why disk does not appear under Computer Management > Disk Management. For almost a year I’ve not questioned the issue of why I cannot find traditional HDD in the BIOS setting nor do I see them in Windows 10 when I have the machine boot from an M.2 SSD drive. The support for M.2 SSD caught my eye and I’ve built the PC to run Windows 10 off an HP M.2 SSD. It offers four DDR4 RAM slots, two PCI-e slots, and one M.2 NVMe SSD support.

With that put out of the way, this motherboard GA-AB350M-D3H is a budget motherboard you can get it for under $100 from most of the places that offer such hardware.ĭespite the budget profile, it has everything you can ask for from a motherboard with future expansions. In short, this can run all first 3 generations of AMD Ryzen 1xxx up to 3xxx CPUs. This PC I built in 2018 was based on the (then) new AMD Ryzen AM4 socket, B350 chipset can support up to Zen 2 CPU (7nm) which is a huge upgrade from the first generation of Zen (14nm) architecture.

Like all the desktop I own in the last decade, they are custom-built, on a budget.

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