anybody use a pcie x1 card with ssd?

[sjkuessel]

Has anyone actually used a pcie x 1 card to hook up a ssd? Could you recommend a good card to do that with. What are the actual results? Can you really get the 5mb/s speeds pcie x 1 gets

 

[Mattios]

Why do you want to connect an SSD via PCI-E? Do you not have any SATA ports available?

 

[madmatt30]

you can get full sata 3 speed with one of these,running 2 drives simultaneously will saturate the bus though.
I use one on a board with only sata 2 ports,you need to be sure though if you want to do a windows install on the ssd that your bios uspports booting from drives connected to an external controller.
mine does but its just luck of the draw in that respect.

 

[sjkuessel]

I do have sata 2 ports on my mobo(don't have sata 3). I read that a pcie x 1 sata 3 card will give you faster speeds(approx 5 mb/s).

I would like to clone my old hdd and move it to a ssd. Is there any way to tell iif my bios will allow me to boot to a ssd hooked to a pcie sata card before I buy one?

 

[madmatt30]

What motherboard is it mate?

 

[sjkuessel]

It is h-rs880 uatx

 

[sjkuessel]

It's a HP computer. Mobo made by foxconn

 

[madmatt30]

^ yeah mate id be kind of doubtful - they're bare basic boards.
You are aware that even on a sata 2 port you get a massive speed increase over a platter drive?

I originally ran my ssd on a native sata 2 port & was still getting 275mbs read times & a boot time of around 20seconds as opposed to 100mbs on my Seagate drive & around 1 minute boot up.
Its still worth buying a ssd & running on your sata 2 IMO - just don't stump up for the fastest drive- just go for the cheap Kingston,ocz or patriot models.

 

[sjkuessel]

Thanks for the advice. Does cloning work well? My current hdd is only 141gb full but has lots of important programs I use on it. I wouldn't be able to fresh install windows and reload all the programs. My computer does have ahci mode in bios

 

[madmatt30]

Never cloned mate ,fresh installs only here :-/

You would be best making another thread about cloning to ssd - many people have success ,a few don't.