Looking for suitable NMe drive for a Gigabyte GA-X99-SLI

Paul2016 · 12 Sep 2021 at 23:36

As title I have a Gigabyte GA-X99-SLI with on-board M.2 connector and was wondering what read/write speeds i would get with it?
It's described in the manual as a "M.2 connector (M2_10G) (Socket 3, M key, type 2260/2280 SATA and PCIe x2/x1 SSD support)" but have no idea what that means in terms of what speed it operates at.
No point buying a 7,000MB/s one if it only supports 2,000MB/s

Thanks.

Dg834man · 13 Sep 2021 at 13:31

wd sn550 https://www.overclockers.co.uk/wd-b...-solid-state-drive-wds100t2b0c-hd-56l-wd.html

Paul2016 said:
No point buying a 7,000MB/s one if it only supports 2,000MB/s

Everything on the market is going to surpass that now :cry:

something nice and cheap that you can move to your next system

Paul2016 · 13 Sep 2021 at 16:27

Thanks Dg834man, Yeah was looking at getting a 1TB one do you know if that will run at it's full speed 2400/1950 using the on board connector or would I be better getting an adaptor card and pluging it into a PCI-E slot?

Dg834man · 13 Sep 2021 at 17:57

From the specs it will only be slightly hindered by the board

EsaT · 13 Sep 2021 at 21:21

PCIe v2 of that chipset gives 1GB/s for two lanes, so any NVMe will max that.

Though it would be possible to get four PCIe v3 lanes from using PCIe slot adapter in PCIE_2.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/akasa-m.2-x4-pci-e-3.0-adapter-card-black-cc-00a-ak.html