Aurora R10, adding NVMe M.2 SSD via a PCIe adapter

Correct, on the R10.  But that's specific to the R10 on b550a, it only powers 2 lanes for slot 3, that's why it's slowed.  

I tried same, a m.2 SSD card using pcie adapter in my recently acquired R10 Ryzen and it is not recognized in Windows or partition manager... my bios is upgraded to the most recent., is there a bios change that has to be made for it to be recognized, or some driver to install?

Similar spec to what I have read that others have used... and I put it in the second x16 slot, slot4.

Western Digital - WD Blue SN550 NVMe 1TB SSD 

Micro Connectors M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 Adapter

What ssd and adapter are you using?

I installed (into only available slot, 3080 takes the rest) PCIe adapter that houses m2 nvme and m2 sata slots and was able to install 870 evo plus 2tb in nvme and wd 2tb in sata and also threw in two 2tb 2.5" 860 evo ssd's in that puppy, came stock with 1tb m2 nvme + 2tb 3.5 hhd. I love it  

Wait a second -- the Zen 2 architecture combined with a 500 series chipset has an abundance of PCI lanes available -- why did Dell reduce the x16 to x8 and that 1 useable x4 to x2? It just sounds like they cut a dollar off the cost of the motherboard...

Oh, I see... It's a B550A (which is a B450 + PCIe 4.0 from the CPU) chipset and only has 6 PCIe 2.0 lanes  

Has or could someone out there look (or feel) to see if there is any clearance between the hidden X4 slot (with the 4 usable lanes)  and the video card?  I am hoping that a $20 PCIe X4 extension cable would have enough room to bend and extend that slot from underneath the vid card. Some of the extension cables go from the X4 to X4, some directly to a M.2 and long enough to reach the SSD trays. That would greatly increase the R10's expandability! 

Wait a second -- the Zen 2 architecture combined with a 500 series chipset has an abundance of PCI lanes available -- why did Dell reduce the x16 to x8 and that 1 useable x4 to x2? It just sounds like they cut a dollar off the cost of the motherboard...

Oh, I see... It's a B550A (which is a B450 + PCIe 4.0 from the CPU) chipset and only has 6 PCIe 2.0 lanes

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I'm still confused.

If this is just an "AMD thing" that explanation will suffice as "I don't do AMD". Maybe this is justification as to why?

I literally just did this three days ago. I installed the NMVe drive right on the adapter, plugged it in, formatted the drive and all is well. No problems. Go for it!!

What is your pc config you put the QNAP (QM2-4P-384) in? Do you have an RTX3080? Is it blocking the airflow to the graphics card? Does it come near the Graphics card holder? Can you post some pics of the install?

1) My setup is

Aurora R10
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11GB GDDR6 490-BFQD 1
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X (16-Core, 64MB L3 Cache, Max Boost Clock of 4.7GHz)

2) The QNAP card does not block anything really as it is in slot #4 (please see the chat history above). 

No pictures for now, perhaps later.

Does that mean you have your 2 stock drives and then 4 additional?! What adapter did you use? Do the read/write speeds check out? I would love to expand my space on my R10.

Thanks!

Hey there, please read the entire thread history first, all of your answers are there.

"Do the read/write speeds check out?"

Note that the PCiE slot 3 runs at x2, so you'd need to use a different slot to utilize the x4 bandwidth on the M2 drive. 

I was specifically asking dboyrusky for what he used, because he seems to have expanded storage quite substantially. I'm really new to this and wouldn't want to purchase anything erroneously or that isn't being used to the fullest. I did read all 5 pages of this thread, but again, its still a challenge to understand for my current level of knowledge.

For instance, r72019's reply to part of my question is basically in an alien language to me.

Ultimately, I need a very beginner level explanation on how to add even just 1 more SSD to my R10. I currently have the stock M.2 ssd and 3.5 inch sata hdd.