Mini PCI-E SSD

jellybeard999 · 7 Nov 2009 at 18:47

Would a mini PCI-E SSD - ie the sort you find in a netbook - work with a motherboard such as http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-003-ZT&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1436 ?

Would it be bootable ?

explicit4u · 7 Nov 2009 at 21:21

why would you want one, there extremely slow, and in most cases are slower then an average Hard Drive.

mjones1 · 7 Nov 2009 at 21:27

Buy a pci sata controller and a ssd drive.

JonJ678 · 7 Nov 2009 at 21:37

Hard to tell if it would be bootable or not. It will work if the pci-e slot is wired up according to atx spec, it might not if only the connections needed for the card are available. I'd suggest contacting zotac but their customer support doesn't seem brilliant.

I have a pci-e slot in my netbook which will take a wireless card, but not a hsdpa card as it's partially wired.

If you try it I'd like to know, a bootable flash volume would be more valuable to me than wireless. For example, run ubuntu off the flash drive, and use the sata ports for hard drives storing data, without needing to use a pci card to support more drives.

jellybeard999 · 7 Nov 2009 at 23:11

explicit4u said:
why would you want one, there extremely slow, and in most cases are slower then an average Hard Drive.

Because not all applications need speed, and in some cases silence is more important :confused:

- HTPC in my case.

mjones1 said:
Buy a pci sata controller and a ssd drive.

It has SATA ports onboard, but I'd rather not spend £80 on an SSD - I'd sooner use a 2.5" drive. This is just pie in the sky thinking, as I want to build a dedicated mitx HTPC, but at the moment, no case looks suitable, so would have to be a DIY job

From the reading I've done, the port seems to be suitable only for the wifi card supplied :/

DrBombcrater · 8 Nov 2009 at 00:45

I doubt it will work. Netbooks have SATA signals present at the mini PCI-e slot (which is why these SSDs are cheap, no need for a SATA controller chip) but that's unusual on other systems. I tried a netbook SSD on my Dell laptop, which has 3 mini PCI-e slots, and it wasn't detected at all in any of the slots.