WD SN550 on Z97-p

[Jetfighter808]

Would using a WD SN550 as a boot drive for a linux installation work using the m.2 10gbit/s connector on my motherboard (Asus Z97-P)? I know that the drive speed is significantly faster than 10gbit/s and would therefore be bottle necked but I've run out of SATA ports and the NVME version of a m.2 drive is about the same price as the SATA version of the m.2 drive with much higher read/write IOPS. In addition, I can always reuse the drive when I upgrade. I've tried contacting ASUS to check if NVME is bootable on this motherboard but their response was .... "Please if possible get another SSD  - Samsung or Kingston(not the budget ones tho as they fail more often)" which isn't very useful.

 

Any help would be appreciated,

 

Many thanks.

[Electronics Wizardy]

It should work fine in your board. Any nvme drive should be bootable on there. You probably won't notice the speed difference, but it should be slightly faster, and with slighly lower cpu overhead aswell compared to ahci

[Jurrunio]

I think they say that because bootable M.2 is only in beta BIOS which means they dont guarantee support and wont fix errors if you encounter any