New m.2 ssd not showing up

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I recently bought my first and only ssd. I followed a youtube video and installed it but it isn’t showing up.

It isn’t showing on gparted, neither is showing on the file manager and neither on the bios. I never used a ssd before, so I don’t know if a bought a model that doesn’t work with my mother board or if i installed it wrong, i made sure to check first and thought it would work, but maybe I overlooked something.

my mother board is a TUF B360M-PLUS GAMING/BR and the ssd is a E100N solid state drive.

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Your Mobo has 2 M.2 ports, that support different protocolls:
Mobo
SSD
one fo the slots is for SATA & PCIE 3.0 x 4 mode, and the other only for PCIE 3.0 x 4 mode.
Your SSD uses SATA.
Make sure your SSD is in the port that supports SATA

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Judging by the low quality picture on asus’s website, the one you should be in is the upper one

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@Chloe
Check your UEFI settings that the drives are set to SATA.

Edit: Also make sure the SATA mode is set to AHCI and not RAID.

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Had no idea about this, thought that since both were m.2 so it would work. You saved me life mate, thank you, truly.

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Depends on when the board came out and the price range you were willing to pay. My M.2’s are PCIe 3x and 4x, and the top one is 4x.

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