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MrJoosh
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Good afternoon oracles of all knowledge...

 

I currently run a WD Blue as my main drive, but I would quite like to switch over to an SSD for the speed benefits offered.

 

My motherboard (Asus Maximus VI Formula) doesn't have native NVMe support (being a Z87 chipset board), but I was wondering if a PCIe NVMe card such as this could be used as my primary boot drive. If it is indeed possible, would it be a noticeable difference over an SSD hooked up over SATA?

 

I have had a quick search around the interweb, but I can't find a definitive answer to whether this would be possible...

 

Can anybody help me out?

 

Thanks,

 

Josh

I will only ever answer to the best of my ability - there is absolutely no promises that I will be correct. Or helpful. At all.

 

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NMVe won't work...

So you can choose between Sata or a PCIe AHCI drive like e.g. the Samsung SM961 (attention there is also a NVMe version of this)

But I would just go for a sata drive, it's already so much better then the HDD and you probably wouldn't notice any real world difference between Sata and PCIe + NVMe if youhaven't special workloads...

 

So I would go for an SSD with as much as capacity you can afford/you need, and also maybe look for 5 year warranty (I needed this 5 year warranty on SSD already twice, once Samsung once OCZ, both died after ca. 4 years). Crucial MX500 or Samsung 860 Evo would be my choice, and prices are currently pretty good.

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30 minutes ago, Clemens said:

NMVe won't work...

Actually it does work

https://www.win-raid.com/t871f50-Guide-How-to-get-full-NVMe-support-for-all-Systems-with-an-AMI-UEFI-BIOS.html

mods needed, that is.

 

but for convenience, just use SATA. loading up OS and games arent really dependent on extra bandwidth by going from NVMe SSD to SATA SSD. Both SSD types get equally short latency (response time), so both work just as well as a boot drive.

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46 minutes ago, Clemens said:

NMVe won't work...

So you can choose between Sata or a PCIe AHCI drive like e.g. the Samsung SM961 (attention there is also a NVMe version of this)

But I would just go for a sata drive, it's already so much better then the HDD and you probably wouldn't notice any real world difference between Sata and PCIe + NVMe if youhaven't special workloads...

 

So I would go for an SSD with as much as capacity you can afford/you need, and also maybe look for 5 year warranty (I needed this 5 year warranty on SSD already twice, once Samsung once OCZ, both died after ca. 4 years). Crucial MX500 or Samsung 860 Evo would be my choice, and prices are currently pretty good.

 

7 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Actually it does work

https://www.win-raid.com/t871f50-Guide-How-to-get-full-NVMe-support-for-all-Systems-with-an-AMI-UEFI-BIOS.html

mods needed, that is.

 

but for convenience, just use SATA. loading up OS and games arent really dependent on extra bandwidth by going from NVMe SSD to SATA SSD. Both SSD types get equally short latency (response time), so both work just as well as a boot drive.

Thanks for the help guys :)

I will only ever answer to the best of my ability - there is absolutely no promises that I will be correct. Or helpful. At all.

 

My toaster:

Spoiler

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670k @ 4.3GHz
Motherboard: Asus Maximus VI Formula
RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX770 2GB
Case: Some free Sharkoon case
Storage: Crucial MX500 500GB SSD | Western Digital Blue 1TB
PSU: Corsair HX750
Display(s): Acer framless 24" 1080p thing | Acer 22" 1600x900 thing
Cooling: Corsair H100i AIO | 2 x Corsair LL120 front intakes on radiator | 1 x Corsair LL120 rear exhaust
Keyboard: Steelseries Apex
Mouse: R.A.T 7
Sound: HyperX Cloud II headset | Creative EAX 5.1 speakers
OS: Windows 10 Pro

 

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