Possible Bottleneck

[MrWazoo]

I am considering getting a cheap 64GB ssd for an old pc (ADATA), but im not sure what gen the PCIe is. I think it may be gen 1 or maybe 2, and the only PCIe to SATA converters I see dont utilize a full 16x, could this cause bottlenecks? Is it possible the older motherboard wont even boot off a drive it sees as PCIe at all? Will it even see the drive?

Thanks.

[Guest]

I think this highly depends on your motherboard. Maybe a bit more info on that? (especialy with your boot questions...)

[Skiiwee29]

6 minutes ago, MrWazoo said:

I am considering getting a cheap 64GB ssd for an old pc (ADATA), but im not sure what gen the PCIe is. I think it may be gen 1 or maybe 2, and the only PCIe to SATA converters I see dont utilize a full 16x, could this cause bottlenecks? Is it possible the older motherboard wont even boot off a drive it sees as PCIe at all? Will it even see the drive?

Thanks.

No it will not cause any bottlenecks. PCIe I believe is all backwards compatible so even if you got a PCIe gen 3 SSD, it would run at whatever your Motherboard is rated for and can handle. Any SSD would NOT be a bottleneck and would only enhance its boot performance for you. 

[MrWazoo]

Okay, I have honestly no idea, its from an old dell Vostro 230 and the dell website has no info I can find on what gen the pcie slots are, its really no help

[MrWazoo]

I know its backwards compatible but im just afraid that with using a 1st gen 4x slot, the ssd wont even be faster than the current hard drive

[MrWazoo]

its from 2009 if that helps