Hero VIII and PCIe SSD

[Fr33K!e]

HI,

Not sure if this has been asked before but here goes.

I have a Asus Maximus Hero VIII, 2 SSD's in RAID 0, 3 x 3TB HDD's in RAID 0, a 3TB for Storage and a Bu Ray RW.

The 2 x RAID 0 partitions and Blu Ray drive are on the Intel controller and the 3 TB drive is on the AS Media controller.

I'm seriously think of upgrading the 2 SSD's for a PCIe NVMe SSD. I know that if I went for a AHCI PCIe SSD that 2 of the SATA ports would be disabled but would going for NVMe disable 2 SATA ports as well as the PCIe 4x.

I could really do with the 2 extra SATA ports I would possible gain from upgrading to a PCIe SSD.

Thanks in advance.

Edit;

My PC consists of a i7 6700K, Corsair H100i v2, 16GB DDR4 3000, GTX 780 ti and x-fi titanium champ all house in Corsair 800D

 

[Elixer]

HI,

Not sure if this has been asked before but here goes.

I have a Asus Maximus Hero VIII, 2 SSD's in RAID 0, 3 x 3TB HDD's in RAID 0, a 3TB for Storage and a Bu Ray RW.

The 2 x RAID 0 partitions and Blu Ray drive are on the Intel controller and the 3 TB drive is on the AS Media controller.

I'm seriously think of upgrading the 2 SSD's for a PCIe NVMe SSD. I know that if I went for a AHCI PCIe SSD that 2 of the SATA ports would be disabled but would going for NVMe disable 2 SATA ports as well as the PCIe 4x.

I could really do with the 2 extra SATA ports I would possible gain from upgrading to a PCIe SSD.

Thanks in advance.

Edit;

My PC consists of a i7 6700K, Corsair H100i v2, 16GB DDR4 3000, GTX 780 ti and x-fi titanium champ all house in Corsair 800D

Your post is confusing, are you asking if indeed the SATA ports would be disabled if you install a M.2? Yes.
Are you going to gain any realistic speed advantages over your old RAID setup? Read this http://www.thessdreview.com/daily-news/latest-buzz/understanding-m2-3xraid0-nvme-boot-performance/

 

[Deders]

Actually losing 2 sata ports only applies to Sata Express based M.2 drives, not PCIe based drives like the 950 Pro.

 

[Fr33K!e]

I thought that but wasn't entirely sure. Ordered the Samsung sm951 pcie NVMe 256gb last night anyhow as I figured "To hell with it, I'll just get one and go from there"!

 

[RoDiSlovensko]

@Fr33K!e

If there is reason to use RAID 0 speed reading so I would recommend the Intel RST use it RAID1. Data are read simultaneously from both drives and data are protected. Capacity is of course only one disc.

 

[Fr33K!e]

Well, the drive arrived today. Took 2 mins to install and was recognised instantly. All SATA ports remained usable and none of the RAID configs were affected.

Windows installed seamlessly and took all of 3 mins to install off a USB 3.0 flash drive.

The reason for the RAID 0 setup initially was because when I bought the SSD's the maximum size you could get was 120GB and because I only installed programmes on c:\ it made more sense to combine the 2 drives in RAID 0 for the space.