M.2

[ronopp]

what's all the fuss?....... can we use this as a bootable device? I read somewhere that you need to have and adapter to connect it to PCIE? any input would do!!

🙂

 

[CoPhotoGuy]

You can use it as a bootable device if the motherboard supports it. You don't have to have a PCIe adapter, but you do need an M.2 slot on the motherboard. Using the M.2 slot usually disables another PCIe slot (on my board it's the very bottom slot).

You also need to have a UEFI BIOS and an OS that supports UEFI (Win7/8).

Basically, as far as I know the X99 chipset will allow this and there are some earlier chipsets that work with BIOS updates.

Motherboards are all different so you would need to figure out what supports it.

I have a Samsung XP941 booting Win7 and it has 978MB/s seq. reads. It's pretty dang fast. However, an 850 Pro on SATA 6Gbps isn't exactly slow either.

 

[Burner27]

Have a Plextor M6e M.2 drive running on my Asus MG7 board for OS and it works very nicely.

 

[ronopp]

looking at this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157501
would it be an improvement over what I have now in my z68?

 

[Fernando 1]

looking at this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157501
would it be an improvement over what I have now in my z68?

If you want to buy a new ASRock mainboard and to get the best possible performance, I recommend to take either the Z97 Extreme6 (this is what I have) or the Z97 Extreme9. Both mainboards do support the "Ultra M.2" feature using at least up to 4 PCIe lanes.

 

[ronopp]

I just purchased the extreme 6 For that very reason!!! I also went for the 4790K...selling my Z68 extreme 4 and a 2500k to offset the price.....was a flawless setup but when you get the itch you might as well scratch it 🙂

 

[Burner27]

So what M.2 drive did you order?

 

[ronopp]

want this... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-366-_-Product but will wait for prices to drop a bit. I have a SSD now so I can be a bit more patient for the M.2 But rest assured I will repost when I do 🙂