I received my order, a PCIe to SATA adapter yesterday. I installed it immediately to add the fifth hard drive to my PC.
Here is my PC situation. The motherboard is an ASUS Prime B450M-A II. The storage posts are one M.2 socket 3 and four SATA 6Gb/s ports provided by the B450 chipset. On the motherboard, there are SATA6G 5/6 ports, but they share bandwidth with the M.2 slot.
So, I installed Samsung 970 EVO Plus on the M.2 slot for the OS and system. Then, I can use only four SATA ports for my Blueray Bunner, two WD HDDs, and one Crucial SDD.
I still have a Crucial SDD I want to install on my PC.
I am looking at the chance of converting PCIe to SATA. I know there are some products that work on it.
I ordered on AliExpress. It took about ten days to my front door.
$10.99.
Oh, I forgot to mention that the motherboard has one PCIe3 x16 and two PCIe2x1. It limited my choice to hunting the SATA adapter. I have to look for the PCIe2.0x1 to SATA adapter.
I open the PC case. Insert it into the PCIe 2.0×1 slot. Connect the SATA data cable. Connect the power cable.
The next picture includes all the drives in the PC.
I believe that the adapter is powered by the Asmedia ASM1061 chip.
When I power on the PC, I don’t need to install anything. Windows 11 finds the driver automatically.
The SSD connected to the SATA adapter is Crucial MX100 256GB, which I bought ten years ago. Let me run an AS SSD Benchmark test.
I tested another Crucial SSD which connects to the motherboard directly. Crucial BX200 240GB, which I bought eight years ago.
The score is very close.
I am happy with this eleven-dollar upgrade. It gives me an option to use my old computer parts.
