PCI-E SSD's

hornetstinger

hornetstinger

hornetstinger

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Will the slot in PCI-E SSD work on older systems, like AMD 810 (X2 dual core) and Intel X58A?

Also what is the difference between the two PCI-E SSD's, one is SATA the other is NVM or something?
Ie SATA is going through SATA protcol, and slower?

I'm happy with regular 2.5" SATA SSD's just want to keep up with modern tech knowledge
 
From the looks of things, you're talking about M.2 SSDs which would require a PCI-E adapter card for older boards that don't include M.2 slots (the board would also require a spare PCI-E slot that has 4x bandwidth) and would also require support for booting from PCI-E.

The two different variants of M.2 drives would share bandwidth with either PCI-E or SATA depending on what type you purchased (this is only for boards that have M.2 slots), as a PCI-E drive would share resources with the standard PCI-E slots on the motherboard dropping the maximum bandwidth of one or more slots (unless bandwidth has already been allocated to the M.2 slot), but a SATA M.2 SSD will always share resources with the standard SATA ports rendering at least one of them non functional (read/write speeds of SATA M.2 SSDs would be almost identical to those of regular SATA SSDs but in a smaller form factor)

PCI-E/NVMe and SATA M.2 SSDs have slightly different connectors and the slots on supporting motherboard will either support one or both types.

There should be a few videos on youtube about this if you want more information on this subject.
 
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