PCI-E nvme drives

[Sharkey1993]

Hi all I was wondering if I can still purchase an NVME pci SSD for my X79 platform? just curious on whether anybody knows if the standard PCI card version can be used on any PC with enough PCI slots an PCI express lanes. as I don't wish to upgrade to X99 yet an my X79 pro motherboard doesn't have an M2 connector to use the 2.5 variant with the Asus adding card.

 

 

[Senzelian]

Hi all I was wondering if I can still purchase an NVME pci SSD for my X79 platform? just curious on whether anybody knows if the standard PCI card version can be used on any PC with enough PCI slots an PCI express lanes. as I don't wish to upgrade to X99 yet an my X79 pro motherboard doesn't have an M2 connector to use the 2.5 variant with the Asus adding card.

I'm pretty sure it works, as long as there is an update for your motherboard that supports the NVMe protocol.

Here is a link to a PCPer article about Intel 750 NVMe compatibility:

http://www.pcper.com/news/General-Tech/Intel-SSD-750-Series-PCIe-Compatibility-Tested

[Curufinwe_wins]

Yes you should be able to. The 750 series has an add-in card for that purpose.

[slightlyjaded]

nvMe is supported.....in windows.

 

I'm sorry to say that unless NVMe is natively supported in bios you cannot boot from it as the unsupported drive. you can boot from anything else, but if your drive isn't supported then it'll just go looking for a drive that is supported.

[Sharkey1993]

I'm pretty sure it works, as long as there is an update for your motherboard that supports the NVMe protocol.

Here is a link to a PCPer article about Intel 750 NVMe compatibility:

http://www.pcper.com/news/General-Tech/Intel-SSD-750-Series-PCIe-Compatibility-Tested

Thanks il check it out.

 

Yes you should be able to. The 750 series has an add-in card for that purpose.

Yeah I know there is an adding card for the 750's but I can't use it on my Asus x79 pro as I don't have the m2 slot. so If I get one of the 750s I will have to get the PCI version (an if there was misinterpretation then I apologize as I do no some people count PCI card's as add-in card's an call what i'm meaning about as an Add-in board )

[slightlyjaded]

just for reference purposes. I run a xp941 as my boot drive. A UEFI boot drive that is completely unsuported in most versions of the x99 bios settings. It is only through a firmware update that the late bios editions could boot from the samsung xp941....

[Curufinwe_wins]

Thanks il check it out.

 

Yeah I know there is an adding card for the 750's but I can't use it on my Asus x79 pro as I don't have the m2 slot. so If I get one of the 750s I will have to get the PCI version (an if there was misinterpretation then I apologize as I do no some people count PCI card's as add-in card's an call what i'm meaning about as an Add-in board )

Yea I meant the pci card.

[Sharkey1993]

nvMe is supported.....in windows.

 

I'm sorry to say that unless NVMe is natively supported in bios you cannot boot from it as the unsupported drive. you can boot from anything else, but if your drive isn't supported then it'll just go looking for a drive that is supported

you can also load the 750 drivers to a USB an tell Windows installer to use them to make the PCI ssd visible as a boot drive. but if you mean the NVME protocal then yes thats Bios dependent which for me is looking like so far the X79 pro doesn't receive it  

[slightlyjaded]

you can also load the 750 drivers to a USB an tell Windows installer to use them to make the PCI ssd visible as a boot drive. but if you mean the NVME protocol then yes that's Bios dependent which for me is looking like so far the X79 pro doesn't receive it

Actually I run one of the few setups that looks at the 750, giggles, and says okay.... From my setup with the xp941 I'm aware however that this very much isn't the case for most people.

 

I am aware that any boot requires the boot medium to be recognised within the bios. Anything that requires additional data will have to wait for advanced data.

[slightlyjaded]

I'm an old school gamer. I realise that any loaded driver needs to load in "conventional"memory, not extended memory.

[Sharkey1993]

Actually I run one of the few setups that looks at the 750, giggles, and says okay.... From my setup with the xp941 I'm aware however that this very much isn't the case for most people.

 

I am aware that any boot requires the boot medium to be recognised within the bios. Anything that requires additional data will have to wait for advanced data.

 

 

I'm an old school gamer. I realise that any loaded driver needs to load in "conventional"memory, not extended memory.

Fair enough. i'm still planning on waiting now tho since my X79 board wont support it as a boot device. I might look at it when prices drop as storage medium for Games an productivity with Premier an Photoshop not sure yet

[slightlyjaded]

Fair enough. i'm still planning on waiting now tho since my X79 board wont support it as a boot device. I might look at it when prices drop as storage medium for Games an productivity with Premier an Photoshop not sure yet

actually that plextor drive loads on justr about anything. I suspect it's actually utilising sata express, but the fact it works makes it pretty attractive.

 

There is a sata pcie gen2.0x8 drive available. it's from mushkin, and called the black scorpion.