SSD or PCIe SSD?

[LuckyByte]

Hey,

I get bored from my old Harddrive.

I want one of those epic ssd

BUT

I have an "old" Motherboard - Gigabyte 78LMT-USB3 (Specs: http://www.gigabyte.de/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4305#sp) no SATA 3

So I thought for a bootable PCIe SSD.

Does it work for my setup? Or should i get an SSD with SATA 2?

 

 

[WereCat]

Or you could get PCI SATA III adapter and SATA III SSD.

[Gofspar]

get a non shit motherboard and a 850 EVO or MX200 = problem solved.

[Bob Jim]

If you have a free Pcie slot, get a Pcie ssd if you have the money. Intel 750 series 1.2TB/480GB is the best choice, though VERY expensive.

[Maslofski]

since youre not running SLI you should have enough lanes left, but id look at the compatibility list of the ssd

[slightlyjaded]

Yeah, won't work. The only M.2 drive that I know is bootable on a motherboard without native support is the M6e, and honestly you're probably better off with an 850EVO.

 

Yes you probably can run drives like a intel 750, or a samsung xp941/sm951. However without native uefi support for them, you cannot boot from them.

 

EDIT: sorry I just saw how that looked. In the case of the xp941, and it's successors you require native uefi support for it in the ios to use it as a boot drive. If your bios doesn't recognise it's there it's a little difficult to boot from it.

[Lolucoca]

If you can afford it, use the PCIe-SSD

[infamous_last]

Yeah, won't work. The only M.2 drive that I know is bootable on a motherboard without native support is the M6e, and honestly you're probably better off with an 850EVO.

 

Yes you probably can run drives like a intel 750, or a samsung xp941/sm951. However without native uefi support for them, you cannot boot from them.

The only drives that should have compatibility issues are NVMe based drives (due to lack of UEFI).

The M6e or the Predator should be good choices, I'm looking at the Predator myself for my older x58 board.

 

As with anything, the best answer is usually to find someone (google is your friend) who already runs the same hardware config so you know it works.

 

FYI... SSD on SATA2 is still a very good thing for a plan b.

[slightlyjaded]

The only drives that should have compatibility issues are NVMe based drives (due to lack of UEFI).

The M6e or the Predator should be good choices, I'm looking at the Predator myself for my older x58 board.

 

As with anything, the best answer is usually to find someone (google is your friend) who already runs the same hardware config so you know it works.

 

FYI... SSD on SATA2 is still a very good thing for a plan b.

nope, sorry.

 

I'm not saying other drives won't work, but I do know that a lot of the newer gen2.0x4, and above drive do require uefi compatibility. Whether your specific drive does or not, I'd hope you would check the manufacturer's spec sheets fort compatibility before you put your cash into it.

 

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Samsung-XP941-Plextor-PX-G256-M6e-M-2-Qualification-575/

[slightlyjaded]

Something for your consideration, and should be compatible is the mushkin black scorpion. Basically it's 4 naked ssd's in raid 0 on a pcie 2.0x8 interface. The speeds are......interesting.