NVMe and AHCI? New system SSD + HDD

fec32a4de · Mar 10, 2017

Hey guys.

I'm building my brother's new PC and he is gonna have a Samsung 960 EVO m.2 SSD which is NVMe
and a 1TB 7200 Hard Drive.

How would I set up the drives? Considering I'm mixing both NVMe and AHCI?

My bro hasn't decided on the exact motherboard/cpu combo yet, either Intel's Z270 or AMD's X370

I'm so used to drives being SATA (AHCI) for both SSD + HDD combo and I've never used any NVMe drive.

What happens if he goes with NVMe SSD and a SATAIII one thats AHCI? How do I set them up then?

Thanks in advance!

bonehead123 · Mar 10, 2017

not much, except..

a. Everything blows up & sends burning bits of metal and plastic into your body
b. you get locked up for attempting to kill yourself
c. your electric bill goes up by 6000 percent
d. yo momma slaps you upside da head for being so silly
e. everyone here gets to laugh at you uncontrollably for about a year or so....

but seriously, I've had AHCI HDD's, SSD's AND nvme drives in all my rigs (including my current one) over the past 3 years neveranottaproblemo....

EarthDog · Mar 10, 2017

Plug it in and go...in most cases.

Slizzo · Mar 10, 2017

Take a look at the storage in my system. It's all over the place:

1TB 960 EVO
512GB OCZ Vector
2x 256GB Samsung 830
60gb OCZ Vertex2
750gb Samsung Spinpoint
1.5TB Western Digital GreenPower

Everything works as it should with no issues or perceptible slow down (well, only when I have to wait for my parked HDDs to spin up when I need to access them.)

System Name	Custom build
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
Motherboard	ASrock B550M
Cooling	Wraith Max
Memory	DDR4 4000 16x2GB
Video Card(s)	RX 6900 XT
Storage	Sabrent Rocket 4.0 500GB
Display(s)	ASUS VG236H 120Hz
Case	N/A
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Thermaltake 850W
Mouse	Generic
Keyboard	Generic
Software	Win 10 x64

System Name	The Little One
Processor	i5-11320H @4.4GHZ
Motherboard	AZW SEI
Cooling	Fan w/heat pipes + side & rear vents
Memory	64GB Crucial DDR4-3200 (2x 32GB)
Video Card(s)	Iris XE
Storage	WD Black SN850X 4TB m.2, Seagate 2TB SSD + SN850 4TB x2 in an external enclosure
Display(s)	2x Samsung 43" & 2x 32"
Case	Practically identical to a mac mini, just purrtier in slate blue, & with 3x usb ports on the front !
Audio Device(s)	Yamaha ATS-1060 Bluetooth Soundbar & Subwoofer
Power Supply	65w brick
Mouse	Logitech MX Master 2
Keyboard	Logitech G613 mechanical wireless
Software	Windows 10 pro 64 bit, with all the unnecessary background shitzu turned OFF !
Benchmark Scores	PDQ

Processor	Ryzen 9 7950X3D
Motherboard	MSI X670E MPG Carbon Wifi
Cooling	Custom loop, 2x360mm radiator,Lian Li UNI, EK XRes140,EK Velocity2
Memory	2x16GB G.Skill DDR5-6400 @ 6400MHz C32
Video Card(s)	EVGA RTX 3080 Ti FTW3 Ultra OC Scanner core +750 mem
Storage	MP600 2TB,960 EVO 1TB,XPG SX8200 Pro 1TB,Micron 1100 2TB,1.5TB Caviar Green
Display(s)	Acer X34S, Acer XB270HU
Case	LianLi O11 Dynamic White
Audio Device(s)	Logitech G-Pro X Wireless
Power Supply	EVGA P3 1200W
Mouse	Logitech G502 Lightspeed
Keyboard	Logitech G512 Carbon w/ GX Brown
VR HMD	HP Reverb G2 (V2)
Software	Win 11

NVMe and AHCI? New system SSD + HDD

fec32a4de

bonehead123

EarthDog

Slizzo