Z77 Pci-E M.2

[IcyIsaac]

I have a my old rig that i'm trying to upgrade and i'm looking into putting an m.2 pcie drive for it because why not. But I don't know if it will function 100% allowing me to boot to the drive and run my OS and everything off of the drive.

The system config as of right now is an i5-3570k and a GTX 980ti Classy and the mobo is an Asus P8Z77-V LK.

[Oshino Shinobu]

AFAIK, Z77 doesn't support booting from PCIe storage. 

[W-L]

3 minutes ago, IcyIsaac said:

I have a my old rig that i'm trying to upgrade and i'm looking into putting an m.2 pcie drive for it because why not. But I don't know if it will function 100% allowing me to boot to the drive and run my OS and everything off of the drive.

The system config as of right now is an i5-3570k and a GTX 980ti Classy and the mobo is an Asus P8Z77-V LK.

If I remember it was only Z97 and newer boards that will only allow M.2 or PCI-E based drives to be the main boot or OS drive, anything before then can only use them as mass storage. 

[IcyIsaac]

1 minute ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

AFAIK, Z77 doesn't support booting from PCIe storage. 

Damn that's what I was worried about

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

AFAIK, Z77 doesn't support booting from PCIe storage. 

you can boot from pcie, just not nvme

[IcyIsaac]

Now i'm sad lol

[Droidbot]

1 minute ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

AFAIK, Z77 doesn't support booting from PCIe storage. 

this. It shows up in OS, but doesn't actually show up at boot time as a device. 

[IcyIsaac]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

you can boot from pcie, just not m.2

I'm talking about a PCI-E to m.2 riser card

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, IcyIsaac said:

Damn that's what I was worried about

 

what os? You can put a small 1gb usb drive in there for /boot and store the os on the ssd.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, IcyIsaac said:

I'm talking about a PCI-E to m.2 riser card

oops, you can boot from pcie, just not mvme.

[Princess Luna]

4 minutes ago, IcyIsaac said:

Now i'm sad lol

Why? you would not feel any difference in real world performance from regular SATA 3 SSDs any ways with those specs.

[IcyIsaac]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

what os? You can put a small 1gb usb drive in there for /boot and store the os on the ssd.

It would be a dual boot as windows 10/linux with a grub menu

[IcyIsaac]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

Why? you would not feel any difference in real world performance from regular SATA 3 SSDs any ways with those specs.

 

That's not the point I already have an extra 950pro and I was seeing if I could buy a riser to use it in this older system for boot and other things