pcie ssd boot up drive?

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Is it possible for this ssd to be used as a boot up drive on my old gigabyte z77 d3h motherboard, currently on a normal HDD and saw these. some people were saying you cant get them to work as a boot up drive as the mobo wont recognise the pcie slot as a boot up device

Or do i have to get just a standard sata ssd drive either or is gonna be a huge boost in speed for me and its just to put my OS on and probaly a couple of games you guys know the drill i guess.

Cheers

Rodney
 
Have the same board, from what I understand, yeah, unless the BIOS supports it, it's not going to work (and it has been added by users into their BIOS before, so if you can locate such a BIOS, you could chance it on your motherboard to get it working).

Getting a standard SSD would definitely be a big enough boot difference anyway in your case as you are moving from HDD to SSD. The difference between SSD and the PCIe storage I would say is much less noticable except for maybe a slight second or two reduced from boot up. But it won't be the same as the cut down going from HDD to SSD, which could be many seconds difference.

This will of course even be more obvious if you happen to have many PCIe devices already populating the PCIe lanes available to that motherboard+cpu. So I would say SSD better approach.
 
Ordinary mechanical hard drives read/write with speeds in the ballpark of 50MB/s - 5400rpm ones drop to miserable 30-35MB/s.
Ordinary solid state drives improve the speeds up to 450MB/s, thus pretty much eliminating the severe bottleneck caused by an ordinary mechanical hard drive.

State-of-the art M.2 PCI-E 3.0 x4 improve the speeds up to 3000MB/s, which then show the maximum performance it could be reached with the given platform.
If the above improves the loading times even further, that means ordinary solid state drives are still bottlenecking the performance of the systems.

When you have this price:


And that:
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £158.69 (includes shipping: £8.70)
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It is obvious that Samsung drive is NOT competitive in any scenario.

And finally, when you look at the performance, there is 0 possibility you will ever prefer an SSD.

 
I think thats a typo. "0 possiblity you will never prefer an SSD"

SSDs - faster in reads, faster in writes, and most importantly - IO contention does not cause the slowdown that HDDs have.
Only reason to have HDDs and not SSDs is if the capacity needed is outside your price range.

If you're currently on a HDD, get a normal SATA SSD and wonder why you didnt do this years ago.
 
As for the competitive comment, the PCI-E SSD totally outclasses the SATA SSD. That's a given.

However, the perceptible difference for you as a user moving from HDD to SATA SSD, is massively bigger than anything you'd notice moving from SATA SSD to PCI-E SSD.
 
cheers guys, i understand all the speeds ect it just 1 of those things i saw and thought i might aswell get the pcie one but if its too much hassle think i just get a sata ssd now begs the question what 1 :D around the £100 mark just for windows and probaly few steam games whats the ideal choice for you guys?

cheers
 
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