Pacman45

I wish I could have gotten that far with my MP510...I couldn't get the NVME formatted in my Windows 10 machine. After trying scores of recommendations from this board and others, I'm finally sending it back under the assumption it's defective. As I read this and other posts, I'm beginning to think it's an over-hyped dud.

It's good to hear that someone is having success with SSDs. So, using your questions as a guide, 1) I did reseat the NVME and it did not seem to change anything. 2) I did flash the mobo with the latest chipset software. No change. 3) I did not try the other M.2 slot because of conflict with SATA channels. I have 4 Hard Drives and I didn't want to play guess the conflicting channel game. So if I couldn't get it to work in m.2a, I just wasn't going to use it. 4) It is not a RAID setup (as far as I know...I did not take any action to make it a RAID, but if something is defaulting to RAID, I don't know). I do have an external G-SPEED eS 3TB RAID 5 array that is run through a Highpoint Rocket Raid SCSI PCIe board. I don't think that would be causing an issue though. 5) I am not overclocking--3.66 GHz is where I'm at with the i7 8-core 9700K. 6) From my understanding of the table in the AORUS manual, a PCIe NVME installed in m.2a does not share a channel with any of the other SATA drives. It's why I chose it. I've filled out a return authorization with Newegg and I'm going to just ask for a refund. I've heard of a lot of problems with SSDs and in particular trying to use SSDs as system disks. At this point, I would have to clone my HDD system drive to an SSD and I've heard of lots of problems with that given different sector sizes, or something like that. From what I've heard, the difference in boot time is not as dramatic as I had originally thought. Given the headaches I've had so far and the headaches that await me should I continue in trying to establish a system SSD in m.2a, I think I'll just stick with my all-HDD setup...unless someone can convince me otherwise.

I'm having extreme difficulty accessing my MP510 Force on a Gigabyte Z390 AORUS Pro. The 1920GB SSD is installed in the m.2a slot. UEFI firmware recognizes it most of the time, but not all of the time. Windows 10 Windows Explorer sometimes shows it as an unconfigured I: drive, but sometimes it's not there at all. Disk Management sometimes has it, but often not. The few times it has appeared in Disk Management, I tried formatting it. All formatting attempts failed. I searched for a new driver, but Windows said I had the latest driver. I flashed the motherboard firmware with the latest chipset and that didn't help either. I'm about ready to return this drive for a refund and stick with HDD. My first foray into SSD and I'm not impressed.