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Are there other people running M.2 SSD on old systems?

Intelfreak
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Last week i took the step to M.2 SSD on my old X58 system and it nice. No more crappy sata 2 og 3 speed.

 

Just wanted to here it other had done the same and what do you think of M.2 SSD?

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8 minutes ago, 8-Bit Ninja said:

x58 supports m.2's?!?!

Prob a PCI adapter.

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10 minutes ago, 8-Bit Ninja said:

x58 supports m.2's?!?!

yep, its just anouther pcie device and should work in any board with a pcie bus. You just can't boot from them, which isn't a huge issues. Just put /boot on a usb drive and use the ssd for /

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1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

yep, its just anouther pcie device and should work in any board with a pcie bus. You just can't boot from them, which isn't a huge issues. Just put /boot on a usb drive and use the ssd for /

 

4 minutes ago, Abyss Gaming said:

Prob a PCI adapter.

thanks, i completely forgot about pcie adapters 

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1 minute ago, 8-Bit Ninja said:

x58 supports m.2's?!?!

No not with any M.2 SSD. You need a m.2 SSD with legacy mode build in its firmware and there are not many of them that have it. Only two i now of has it. Samsung 950 PRO i use my self and have seen other report that Kingston HyperX Predator shut work also, but can not comfirm that. Besides that you need an PCIe M.2 adaptor.

 

Legacy mode alows old non UEFI bios motherboard to see the SSD as an IDE drive and by that makes it possible to boot from but only in AHCI mode (raid dosent work). Non legacy mode m.2 SSD will ether not work at all or can only be used as an storege drive for files and games.

 

But to prove M.2 SSD with legacy mode can work. Here is my own system

 

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And a video. Not the bedst but show what its sopose to show.

 

 

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25 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

yep, its just anouther pcie device and should work in any board with a pcie bus. You just can't boot from them, which isn't a huge issues. Just put /boot on a usb drive and use the ssd for /

Normal yes you cant boot, but if you have a drive with legacy mode, you can boot from it. Se my post above.

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