Samsung M.2 Drive Query

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Have just ordered a 512gb one of these from the clearance section. Have been reading up a little and noticed that 'concern' was raised if you intend to use as a boot (windows one assumes?) drive.
Intention is to clone my existing boot drive (512gb 840EVO) to the new M2 so it will become the boot drive.
Anything special (i.e. apart from plug in, clone and run - having adjusted bios so that it is the first drive it looks at) that needs to be done?
Board is an Asus X99- S board with 5820 cpu and 2 x 290 in crossfire.
Thanks in anticipation :)
 
I have the same motherboard and a Samsung SM951... although the drive is different, the process is the same.

I installed from scratch as I like to do that with all new boot drives or semi-substantial hardware changes... but the process you mention should work without any trouble, yes... you would just need to change the bios to boot from the new M2 drive as the primary.
 
I bought one of these the other day as part of my new X99 build and I am having issues with it. I am using Asus Rampage V extreme and the m2 card is not getting detected at all. I have had to load windows onto my standard SSD so that I can try and find a solution.
 
On that motherboard - there may be a jumper or switch on the motherboard or a soft one in the bios that you have to enable... it may also be that you have to have your graphics cards in specific slots so that it enabled the PCI-Ex channels to the M2 SSD... there should have been a quick start guide included that tells you which slots to put them in.

With the X99-S... it's enabled by default, as long as you use the right PCI-Ex slots (you have to use the same slots in order to use SLi or crossfire anyway).
 
The 2 gpu's are installed - per the idiots guide/lights (maybe it is because I am one but I like such simplicity!)- in slots PCIEX 1 & 4
When I installed the sound card in PCIEX 2 the board would not see it and , if memory serves , it made a mess of crossfire so switched it to PCIEX 3 and all has worked since.
The new drive is , in fact, the 512gb SM951 not the newer Evo so , hopefully , it will arrive tomorrow and I can get it installed and running over the weekend.
It was in the clearance section with a £60- 80 discount and could not resist :D
Am pondering a move from 5820 to 5930 as I am not sure if my 5820 will run out of lanes - if I interpret correctly it will not as the 5820 has 28 and 16 + 8 for gpu's (24) plus 4 for the ssd(M.2 slot) or have I got it wrong?

(Having had a quick look through the manual it says on page 1-36 that the M.2 slot shares bandwith with PCIEX '5' slot which is:) which on mine is unpopulated - a good start , methinks)
 
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I have the 5820K and have no problems.

I did a similar thing with the motherboard when I first got it... I built it without looking at the instructions and put the graphics cards in the first two PCI-Ex slots (like I've always done in the past)... and it wouldn't let SLi turn on.

Eventually found it and noticed the notes re: the M.2 slot :)

I'm happy with the 5820... but then I easily got it to 4.625... unless your 5820 is a very bad clocker... I don't think you will notice the difference in CPU.

The only semi-worthwile upgrade might be the 8-core extreme edition... but that's a big jump in cost and it's to do with the extra cores, not the extra pci-ex lanes.

The difference would increase (but even with 3x Titan-X it would still be small) if you were running tri-sli
 
It turns out that the Evo 850 M2 is not PCIe based so will not work with my motherboard, and I don't think it would have worked with the OP's motherboard. Thankfully for the OP he bought the SM951 which is PCIe based.
 
PFarrey said:
Thankfully for the OP he bought the SM951 which is PCIe based.
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Too true ! ( if it had not been for price-see below- I might well have ended up in a similar predicament)
What attracted me to the 951 was the fact that it was in the clearance section. 512gb for £179 rather the usual retail of £250+.
Comes with 90 day warranty only but took the view that it would either work (quick run through with samsung performance test + smart) :) or it would not; a quick rma:(
Came today - did NOT realize how tiny these are!!
Fitted tonight - took about 1/2 hr - most of which was taken up in trying to work out how to use the mount :confused: ( nothing in the manual either explaining or showing how it fits!)
Installed, turned on & windows saw it from the off - asked for a re-boot , which I did and I now have a 'new' G drive (476gb) :)
Quick Samsung performance test - Read: 2234 Write: 1582 Seq.Read(iops) :84473 & seq write (iops): 74948 Very Happy:D
Ran a quick Smart test - all excellent.
So , for now at least, looks like a keeper.
Any free program about that I can test its health with?
BTW my thanks to all , in partic. crinkleshoes , help gratefully received. :)
 
Happy to help dude :)

Great price... I paid about 320 from a French Amazon seller when they were in short supply... lol!

I had fun with that mount too ;)
 
Secondary question - drive is seen in windows but not listed in the bios so am unable to list as a boot device.
How to get it listed in bios?
 
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