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MSI z97 Gaming 5 and 950 Pro m.2 SSD?

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Is this SSD compatible with my mobo?

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Is this SSD compatible with my mobo?

 

No.  Also, 950 Pro is overkill for anyone except big businesses.  It's not a consumer piece.

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No.  Also, 950 Pro is overkill for anyone except big businesses.  It's not a consumer piece.

 

Does that make me a big business?

 

EDIT: The 950 PRO is a consumer variant of the SM951 series (basically), just with an updated NAND technology.

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Does that make me a big business?

Or rich beyond reason ;)

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Or rich beyond reason ;)

 

Eh, it only costed the price of a console...  ;)

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Eh, it only costed the price of a console...  ;)

 

You wouldn't even use a tenth of it's potential anyway on a single PC :P  Most of the massive innovations on the 950 Pro are to do with multiple client access performance.

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Eh, it only costed the price of a console...  ;)

With how SSDs have been dropping in price, I'd be surprised if we didn't see them plummet out of the sky in the next couple of years.

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You wouldn't even use a tenth of it's potential anyway on a single PC :P  Most of the massive innovations on the 950 Pro are to do with multiple client access performance.

 

But mah boot times! Completely necessary to have sub-3 second boot times, right?  ;)

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You wouldn't even use a tenth of it's potential anyway on a single PC :P  Most of the massive innovations on the 950 Pro are to do with multiple client access performance.

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But mah boot times! Completely necessary to have sub-3 second boot times, right?  ;)

More like 20-30 seconds.

 

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No.  Also, 950 Pro is overkill for anyone except big businesses.  It's not a consumer piece.

Its not? is there an adapter I can purchase for it? Or am I stuck with not being able to use one :P

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Its not? is there an adapter I can purchase for it? Or am I stuck with not being able to use one :P

 

M.2 is just the socket.  The 950 Pro is fundamentally different than a M.2 SATA unfortunately. Nothing you can do to make it work.

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