Perfesser Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 So I have a Asus P8Z68-V mobo. My small (250) SSD is almost full. I have empty PCI slots that I could plug in an SSD. However, I think I can't boot from PCI slot SSD but I'm thinking I leave the O/S on the drive I have now, migrate games over to the PCI slot drive and run from there. Does this make sense? Overview Specifications Gallery Support Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crash Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 Has your MB got an M2 slot? you can boot frome these https://www.cclonline.com/category/718/Storage/Solid-State-Drives-SSDs-/attributeslist/1088008/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum FoolTrottel Posted December 21, 2019 1. DDz Quorum Share Posted December 21, 2019 Why not use Sata SSD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perfesser Posted December 21, 2019 Author Share Posted December 21, 2019 This board is just before the M.2 slot came about. PCI slots are faster data transfer than SATA and this type of drive cools better than an enclosed SATA drive = faster speed and longer life. Apparently there are adapters > M.2 to PCI-e .... still investigating.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum FoolTrottel Posted December 21, 2019 1. DDz Quorum Share Posted December 21, 2019 20 minutes ago, Perfesser said: This board is just before the M.2 slot came about. PCI slots are faster data transfer than SATA and this type of drive cools better than an enclosed SATA drive = faster speed and longer life. Apparently there are adapters > M.2 to PCI-e .... still investigating.. Would you really be able to tell the difference in speed? I'd say keep it simple. Adding an adapter PCI-e to M.2? I dunno, I would not even try that ... 😎 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perfesser Posted December 21, 2019 Author Share Posted December 21, 2019 SATA is 6 mb/s. Each path in a PCI 4 slot is also 6 mb so your HD is now working on 24 mb/s if you support the NVMe format and all your stuff plays nice. Probably noticeable in something like DCS. In my case ... probably not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2. Administrators Jabo Posted December 22, 2019 2. Administrators Share Posted December 22, 2019 The theoretical maximum speed for a SATAIII connection is 6GB/s. I don't think 6 megabits per second is going set the world on fire 😉. Notice the use of the word theoretical - you are unlikely to see anything remotely approaching that in a real-world application (SATA SSDs are still much quicker than standard hard drives) - much like the fuel economy figures the manufacturer says you can get out of your car/truck/bike (delete as applicable). PCIe SSD cards are available but I would advise you to check very carefully that your board supports them, I've skimmed through the manual and I think it's highly unlikely but I'm prepared to be proved wrong. They are also MUCH more expensive that a standard SSD so I would probably just add another SSD and keep the change. Failing that and if you're feeling flush, swap out the mobo, processor and memory and get your added horsepower that way - in addition you could then swap out SSDs for M.2s later if you felt so inclined. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum B16Enk Posted December 23, 2019 1. DDz Quorum Share Posted December 23, 2019 I have added a couple of M.2 SSDs each in a PCI adapter, the NVME are the best but all are significantly faster than the SATA 6Gbs drives. And yes you can boot from them. Review carefully the read/write speeds and compare them, note: You will need a PCIE V3 or later for some to get full benefit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perfesser Posted December 27, 2019 Author Share Posted December 27, 2019 Thanks all for the help. I have a reprieve of sorts. I only had 9 MB (of 250) space left on my SSD. I'm told its very bad to have an SSD more than about 75% full. Ordered a 500MB SATA 2.5 inch. My mobo is just a bit too old to take full advantage of an NVMe stick... by the time I can use one a 10 TB will be $20 Moved DCS bloatware (88mb?) to the storage drive. DCS seems to run OK, just takes a long time to load. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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