Re: SSD in older hardware
1- SSD looks like a very fast HDD to a PC.
2- Don't know
3- 2.5" to 3.5" rails - cheap as chips and very common.
Re: SSD in older hardware
1) I ran a 128GB SSD in an old Intel 775 rig.
2) I don't think the old motherboards supported PCIE booting and, if you just stuck it in a SATA compatible caddy of some sort, you'll be limited to the speed for the SATA port ~ 3gbps, so you'd be no better off than using a sata SSD.
3) what Blueball said.
Re: SSD in older hardware
1/ A SATA SSD should work just fine and be a good upgrade.
2/ NVMe boot requires BIOS support, so won't work in your motherboard not aware of NVMe
3/ I 3D printed one if you know someone with a printer, but they are cheap https://www.amazon.co.uk/Valuegist-I...dp/B07GLSL6DF/
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I used to have the same motherboard :) I think bootable NVMe support was introduced with Z97 based motherboards, so you won't be able to boot straight to an NVMe SSD. Still, booting from a SATA SSD will give you a great boost in speed if you're coming from a conventional hard-disk. You could still make use of NVMe SSDs though, by using a PCIe adapter card, which are pretty cheap & widely available.
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So it looks like a SATA based SSD in 2.5" to 3.5" rails WILL boot & be fine for operating system
NVME based SSD could be used providing it sits in a PCI-e adapter card, with said card then sitting in the spare pci express x16 slot on motherboard - i know the card wont use many of the lanes. From above comments suggests it WONT boot from it, so purely as storage / apps
What happens to gpu bandwidth with both x16 slots occupied?
Cooling of SSD?
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Is it a SATA 3 motherboard? Sata 3 PCI-E cards are readily available throught the world.
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Chris1808
NVME based SSD could be used providing it sits in a PCI-e adapter card, with said card then sitting in the spare pci express x16 slot on motherboard - i know the card wont use many of the lanes. From above comments suggests it WONT boot from it, so purely as storage / apps
I really wouldn't bother, cheap NVMe drives are no faster than SATA under heavy use, the really fast NVMe drives are very expensive.
Get a SATA drive, a decently sized one. It will be useful for years yet. I have one of these for Windows:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-MX5...dp/B077SF8KMG/
put the money you saved by not buying NVMe and adapter boards towards a nice Ryzen upgrade.
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Millennium
Is it a SATA 3 motherboard? Sata 3 PCI-E cards are readily available throught the world.
Downloaded Manual shows as SATA 3Gb/s for on-board ports
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fair enough. I believe that 3 * 1024 gbit /s could equate to 384 M Bytes / second so that would seem to be SATA 2.
You will benefit from an SSD but as mentioned the card option is a better One .
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Chris1808
Cooling of SSD?
SATA SSDs don't really need it, 2.5" SSDs (which get kept away from hot stuff like GPUs unlike m.2 versions) more so. They used to have a thick thermal pad sinking some heat to the 2.5" case (example), but more modern drives seem to do without it
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DanceswithUnix
I really wouldn't bother, cheap NVMe drives are no faster than SATA under heavy use, the really fast NVMe drives are very expensive.
Get a SATA drive, a decently sized one. It will be useful for years yet. I have one of these for Windows:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-MX5...dp/B077SF8KMG/
put the money you saved by not buying NVMe and adapter boards towards a nice Ryzen upgrade.
I second the MX500 (but don't have any compelling reason to go for it over, say, a samsung equivalent)
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Xlucine
I second the MX500 (but don't have any compelling reason to go for it over, say, a samsung equivalent)
Love my Samsung drives (have donated my Corsairs to my daughter)
Re: SSD in older hardware
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DanceswithUnix
I really wouldn't bother, cheap NVMe drives are no faster than SATA under heavy use, the really fast NVMe drives are very expensive.
Get a SATA drive, a decently sized one. It will be useful for years yet. I have one of these for Windows:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-MX5...dp/B077SF8KMG/
put the money you saved by not buying NVMe and adapter boards towards a nice Ryzen upgrade.
This. Unless you're throwing around some serious file sizes regularly, there will be little difference between NVMe and SATA. You will notice a MASSIVE difference with a SATA SSD from a HDD. Most people won't notice a leap from good SATA SSD to cheapo NVMe SSD under normal use. Go for capacity but get a decent drive with decent edurance.
I'd not even bother with the hassle of using the PCI-e slot. It's just not worth it.
I use a Crucial MXsommatorother SATA drive as my primary and boot drive.
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Xlucine
I second the MX500 (but don't have any compelling reason to go for it over, say, a samsung equivalent)
The Samsung is usually more expensive, but my first choice if I want reliability.
My Linux SSD is a Samsung, I paid more for slightly better performance and their top reputation for reliability as that is what I use for work. The Windows drive is the Crucial MX, we have a few around the house now and they seem pretty decent drives.