To NVMe or not to NVMe

[flaviu.vlaicu]

Hello,

 

For a few days I am asking myself a lot of questions of how stuff works and I finally ended up here for some answers regarding storage solutions.I want to choose between a Intel 750 or Kingston Hyperx Predator.

Have any of you tried Hyperx Predator in RAID0 done from the MOBO with Ctrl+I or from the UEFI BIOS ? Every where I look I only see RAID0 done between them, but with dynamic drive directly from windows.

I also had in plan one or two 950 PRO but I do not have a slot on my motherboard and cannot find any decent adapters for PCIE for them.

Regarding the Intel 750, I have seen a lot of people complaining that the drive is very very slow regarding boot time.

What do you guys suggest?

[PlayStation 2]

If you want to show that you're the ultimate rich dickbag, NVMe I guess.

just jealous bby :^3

[SPAS-ID]

Get 750, HyperX Predator basicly it just a M.2 SATA SSD Attached to a PCIe

[Altecice]

 Honestly I think NVMe is a bit new and so I personally would avoid it. I haven't tried that but from experience avoid doing software RAIDS ( via Windows) and try to use Hardware RAIDs only.Regarding boot times when you use any sort of hardware RAID controller you will have a delay in boot times.... But personally you only boot once per day so who cares as long as its fast when booted.

[flaviu.vlaicu]

Regarding speeds I seen that 2 x Hyperx Predator in RAID0 are faster than a NVMe Intel 750 but the raid was done via Windows.Dunno if the motherboard is able to make the raid and be bootable.

[Andrew Storlie]

950 pro.... 730 is way over priced

[flaviu.vlaicu]

If you want to show that you're the ultimate rich dickbag, NVMe I guess.

just jealous bby :^3

 

Getting bored and wanting to try something new, rather than plain sata ssd's.They are not cheap but I have the possibility to buy them without VAT here in my country and they are pretty decent as price.

[flaviu.vlaicu]

950 pro.... 730 is way over priced

 

I do not have an M2 slot on my mobo -> Asus Maximus VII Formula

[leadeater]

I've used RAID 0 on two Samsung 840 Pros using the two Intel 6Gb/s ports on my X79 chipset. It's wickedly fast, and completely pointless

 

I'd say what I'm actually using now but @Dan Castellaneta might hate my rich ass lol

[PlayStation 2]

I've used RAID 0 on two Samsung 840 Pros using the two Intel 6Gb/s ports on my X79 chipset. It's wickedly fast, and completely pointless

 

I'd say what I'm actually using now but @Dan Castellaneta might hate my rich ass lol

;^3

[Andrew Storlie]

I do not have an M2 slot on my mobo -> Asus Maximus VII Formula

Just get an adapter...

[flaviu.vlaicu]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Up-to-2200M-s-JZLL-Adapter-Card-to-PCI-E-4X-for-M-2-NGFF-SSD-XP941-SM951-M6E-SSD-/321898093579?hash=item4af29f1c0b:g:9HkAAOSw-vlVhMmK

[alex1002]

How do you guys think the new Samsung 950 compares to the Intel 750?

[flaviu.vlaicu]

I think it will heat up pretty bad , the 950 PRO 

[flaviu.vlaicu]

Why is the adapter from the predator so fancy ^^ ? 

 

http://media.kingston.com/images/products/PCIE_w_LongBracket_hr.jpg