SSD PCI Cards

dont buy for performance..unless money is no object...its not better enough to justify any/much price premium over sata 3..unless you really are at the limit of workability with your applications use of disk subsystem..or unless your running out of sata ports...
 
Unless you're moving a lot of data on the SSD (which honestly for the SSD's lifetime is a bad idea), then you probably won't see much of a real world performance difference compared to SATA based SSDs.
 
Cheers guys. Got an attack of 'gadget lust' looking at these for an OS drive... :)

Will stick to an evo or pro 850 for boot.
 
If your happy to do a regular back up once a week etc or w.e i'd just wack two into raid 0 if you want performance numbers
 
Here's the problem with 'faster' SSD's for consumers, the way an average user is likely to use an SSD is unlikely to show any significant real world time savings/advantage between a 5 year old SSD vs a current gen. It's your call, but you could probably find a better way of spending the money :)
 
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"We move up from 765 MBps read to 1095 MBps read in AS SSD, a 43% speed up. We are still a way away from the 32 Gbps suggested by ASRock that this slot can handle, but it does mean the headroom is there for faster devices."

I was just reading this review cause I wanted to know what M.2 meant:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8045/asrock-z97-extreme6-review-ultra-m2-x4-tested-with-xp941/11

Basically the cpu has 16 pci-e 3.0 lanes and they can be used in 8x/8x crossfire/sli or 8x/4x crossfire + 4x M.2 SSD.

Used like this I'd say it looks like double the performance of an Sata III SSD.
 
megatron said:
"We move up from 765 MBps read to 1095 MBps read in AS SSD, a 43% speed up. We are still a way away from the 32 Gbps suggested by ASRock that this slot can handle, but it does mean the headroom is there for faster devices."

I was just reading this review cause I wanted to know what M.2 meant:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8045/asrock-z97-extreme6-review-ultra-m2-x4-tested-with-xp941/11

Basically the cpu has 16 pci-e 3.0 lanes and they can be used in 8x/8x crossfire/sli or 8x/4x crossfire + 4x M.2 SSD.

Used like this I'd say it looks like double the performance of an Sata III SSD.
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m.2 is the physical form factor, it has different lengths and keying....different implementations support different protocols eg sata/pcie......its is used for sata, pci ssds but also other devices...its just another bus/socket for add in cards...
 
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