** SAMSUNG M.2 PCI-E Super-Fast AHCI & NVME SSD's IN STOCK (ELITE TIER SSD's)!! **

thebennyboy said:
Would the SM951 run at full speed on a MSI Z97 Max AC? Getting confused with some of the info on my motherboard spec sheet.

It does say supports up to 10GB/s but just checking encase they mean Gb/s.
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Someone will correct me if I am wrong but full speed is 32GB/s I think?

So it would work but at 1/3rd of advertised speed. You need a PCI-Adapter or an upgrade to Z170 / X99 platform.
 
Gibbo said:
Someone will correct me if I am wrong but full speed is 32GB/s I think?

So it would work but at 1/3rd of advertised speed. You need a PCI-Adapter or an upgrade to Z170 / X99 platform.
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Each PCI-e 3.0 lane is 8Gb/s so yeah, 32Gb/s is full speed.

When Gigabyte X99 boards (for instance) advertises 10Gb/s it's because they're running PCI-e 2.0 x4, not 3.0. A tad misleading when they say they offer "M.2 x4" speeds in my opinion.
 
None that are bootable apparently.

Asus do a Hyper adapter which according to someone previously in this thread is bootable though.
 
Yep - Gibbo mentioned it earlier on in this thread:

Gibbo said:
We looked at the Lycom DT-120 which seemed a great solution but the factory inform us it is not bootable with Samsung SM951 series, so we cancelled our order.

Do you know of a tried and tested bootable PCI-E card for the M.2 PCI-E SSD's such as SM951?

Obviously the one which Plextor use works but they do not sell it separately.
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I've seen people selling off their Asus Hyper adapters which they don't use to try and coup some cost back from the X99 motherboards

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Can 100% confirm the SM951 boots in a Asus Hyper adapter on my Z97 board. Just abit pricey and seem abit harder to find but they are black which fits builds a lot better than the green ones.
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There is a review on the rainforest saying that they are using an SM951 on a DT-120 that is bootable into windows 10. Would bootability depend more on the motherboard?

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My BIOS had an update to fix issues with Samsung m.2 drives.

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What's the difference between the AHCI and the NVMe versions? All these different terms are confusing the hell out of me. Scared that i'll end up buying a PCI-E adapter/ SSD that are incompatible.
 
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AHCI is an older technology meant for spinning media, NVMe is designed specifically for SSD storage.

NVMe is slightly faster if I recall, but you can't go wrong with either. - NVMe is more likely to cause you less issues (if any) from what I have read too.
 
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