Read more.Could provide a worthwhile storage performance boost on older systems.
Read more.Could provide a worthwhile storage performance boost on older systems.
What's so special about this one compared to all of the other PCI-E to NVMe adapters out here?
I don't need my SSD to have electronic countermeasures, thanks.
I play computer games, not dogfight with Russians.
I think it's just a nice package from a more well known brand. I think the heatsink, etc would be more useful for Optane drives due to the workloads they are bought for and as they tend to hit thermal limitations rather than other issues that limit conventional SSDs before throttling becomes a major concern (although it is an issue in heavy usage on many drives).
It could be beneficial to move the M2 drive to a cooler part of the pc considering some motherboards have the slot directly under the GPU which isn't ideal.
Having said that, it would have been better if they'd just used a physical x4 slot rather than needlessly limiting it to use in a second x16 slot which many boards don't have. M2 is limited to x4 electrically regardless.
Any ideas why that's a requirement? I mean if your not trying to boot off it why should it matter?Another proviso is that M.2 PCIe-NVMe mode SSD requires the use of Intel 9 series (Z97 H97 Z170 X99) or higher version chipset with Windows 8 or newer.
I would imagine it's to do with booting from the drive. Also I'm not sure if Windows prior to 8 have a stock NVMe driver?
Actually this is kind of tempting for me, I have no built in slot and I only really want one as a scratch disk so might be worthwhile, although I'm sure there are likely cheaper options.
Can you boot your OS off this drive ?
I bought a different adapter and modded my P67 BIOS but the damn Samsung 960 Evo would not install Windows 7.
It would depend on motherboard, BIOS settings and OS.
"won't overheat when put under duress"
Poor drive, being forced to do things it doesn't want to do...
I wonder how I might put Hexus under duress to look up the accepted meaning of the word "duress"...
If your adapter is bootable, then you need to clone your install to the SSD on the adapter card, Win 7 doesn't natively support PCIE nVME and you need to load a driver to it then clone it across to the card.
I have win7 booting off an Intel 750 pcie-nvme card on a Asus P9X79 board, different format I know but principle should be the same.
Apologies if I'm already telling you something you already know/understand.
As pointed out, it depends on BIOS. I'm using a P67 board with an AWARD Bios (this is before UEFI Bios became the norm). As far as I'm aware, it simply isn't an option to boot from PCIe (NVMe etc) cards on my board. Possibly not supported as a bootable drive, probably supported as a storage drive only.
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