Boot drive advice

[dtokez]

I'm looking to squeeze all I can out of my old Z97 based machine (Asus Z97 pro gramer). I'm looking at something to fill the m.2 slot, but I understand the slot will only support up to 10GB/s - I have been told that the current NVMe drives require up to 32GB/s for full speed.

What's my best option here, just get a NVMe and forfeit the speed, or are there cheaper M.2 drives that don't require 32gb/s lanes?

Cheers

 

[EsaT]

PCI-express is backwards compatible and also number of PCIe lanes used for forming link is negotiated between host and client basing on what best supported by slower side.
So there shouldn't be any problems.
Tranfer rate will be just limited to 1GB/s instead of ~0.55 GB/s of SATA.
You're mixing bits and bytes...

But BIOS might not support booting from NVMe drive, so you might not be able to install OS into it.
That's something you should ask from Asus.