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It's nvme. Based on what I saw, boards using the 'legacy' bios can be switched over to UEFI. I thought this board was in legacy mode, but apparently I thought the board was newer than it is . It's a Dell XPDFK Precision T3500 System Board. As far as I'm aware this has always been in the workstation I received it in - not sure if it's a server purposed board.

Understood. Thanks!

V fair. That's kinda the conclusion I reached. Suggestions on a new board/config to look at?

The thought was for boot-speed improvements - you're suggesting that the PCIe interferes with full realization of the SSD speed? If so, that doesn't surprise me - At this point I would be acknowledging that my current mb doesn't support the drives I want to use. Any suggestions?

I know I can use this, but I don't think I can boot from this unless my mb supports UEFI.

If I want to boot from an M.2 SSD, but my MB doesn't support UEFI or have M.2 slots (I can still use the M.2 through a PCIe slot), is my only option to upgrade my motherboard? If so, what do you connoisseurs recommend!? Thanks!

I recently decided to upgrade my boot HDD to an m.2 SSD. I'm running the SSD through a PCIe slot since my motherboard doesn't have an M.2 slot, but now see that I need to change from Bios to UEFI to boot from the SSD. It doesn't look like my motherboard supports UEFI. Can anyone help me figure out if I can change to UEFI and what options I have (if any) otherwise? I think I'm probably best to just get a new motherboard at this point, but appreciate your brilliant guidance My motherboard is linked below: https://www.serverworlds.com/dell-xpdfk-precision-t3500-system-board/ Thanks!