Can you boot from Samsung XP941 M.2 SSD yet?

[dan3141592653]

Can you boot from Samsung XP941 M.2 SSD yet?

Alot of peaple seem to have trouble bootinf from this M.2 SSD. I dont eanna get plextor cos the only use 2 lanes. sorry for Engrish

 

[USAFRet]

Why don't you wait until the motherboard/BIOS/drive makers get it worked out.
Let other people be the guinea pigs.

 

[dan3141592653]

Why don't you wait until the motherboard/BIOS/drive makers get it worked out.
Let other people be the guinea pigs.

I know but 1000MB/s !!!

its the last part of my mini itx build to choose befor I order everything

 

[USAFRet]

Why don't you wait until the motherboard/BIOS/drive makers get it worked out.
Let other people be the guinea pigs.

I know but 1000MB/s !!!

its the last part of my mini itx build to choose befor I order everything

1000Mbps, only if it works...

 

[dan3141592653]

Why don't you wait until the motherboard/BIOS/drive makers get it worked out.
Let other people be the guinea pigs.

I know but 1000MB/s !!!

its the last part of my mini itx build to choose befor I order everything

1000Mbps, only if it works...

I found this 2000Mbps

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/samsung-sm951-m.2-pcie-ssd,review-33131.html

 

[USAFRet]

I found this 2000Mbps

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/samsung-sm951-m.2-pcie-ssd,review-33131.html

Yeah. $700 and up...lol

 

[dan3141592653]

I found this 2000Mbps

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/samsung-sm951-m.2-pcie-ssd,review-33131.html

Yeah. $700 and up...lol

Or buy the laptop, swap out the drive with a XP941 swap the stickers and refund the laptop unwanted gift???

REvised, GEt a loan repeat step 1 repay loan

 

[USAFRet]

I found this 2000Mbps

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/samsung-sm951-m.2-pcie-ssd,review-33131.html

Yeah. $700 and up...lol

Or buy the laptop, swap out the drive with a XP941 swap the stickers and refund the laptop unwanted gift???

REvised, GEt a loan repeat step 1 repay loan

Take out a loan for a hard drive? Yeah, OK.
It's not the 'price', its the price per GB. A regular SATA 500GB drive can be had for not much over $200.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147373

Eventually, m.2 SSD prices will come down. 3.5x the price is simply too much, currently.
Just like regular SATA SSD's were initially. Too expensive per GB.

And eventually, you will actually be able to boot from them properly, across just about any motherboard.

 

[dan3141592653]

I looks like the Plextor @ 770MB/s is the fastest out of box boot M.2 option but thats not much more than 840 EVO 520MB/s

 

[Fireman Dave]

I'm using a 256GB XP941 as my boot drive, no trouble at all. Installed Windows 8.1 Pro x64 is around 6 minutes. But that's all due to my motherboard.
The following may be fun reading for some https://www.ramcity.com.au/blog/m.2-ngff-ssd-compatibility-list/189

 

[dan3141592653]

I'm using a 256GB XP941 as my boot drive, no trouble at all. Installed Windows 8.1 Pro x64 is around 6 minutes. But that's all due to my motherboard.
The following may be fun reading for some https://www.ramcity.com.au/blog/m.2-ngff-ssd-compatibility-list/189

do you notice the difference from a ssd?

 

[Fireman Dave]

I'm using a 256GB XP941 as my boot drive, no trouble at all. Installed Windows 8.1 Pro x64 is around 6 minutes. But that's all due to my motherboard.
The following may be fun reading for some https://www.ramcity.com.au/blog/m.2-ngff-ssd-compatibility-list/189

do you notice the difference from a ssd?

Honestly mate it was put in there for the wank factor / love of new things, and simply "because I could".
That said, dear god it is quick. Boot time is nothing, installing programs is nothing. I moved my old 120GB Samsung EVO SSD into the family HTPC and whilst it sped it up, it's got nothing on my PC.

 

[Mohamed_Yousri]

I'm using a 256GB XP941 as my boot drive, no trouble at all. Installed Windows 8.1 Pro x64 is around 6 minutes. But that's all due to my motherboard.
The following may be fun reading for some https://www.ramcity.com.au/blog/m.2-ngff-ssd-compatibility-list/189

do you notice the difference from a ssd?

Honestly mate it was put in there for the wank factor / love of new things, and simply "because I could".
That said, dear god it is quick. Boot time is nothing, installing programs is nothing. I moved my old 120GB Samsung EVO SSD into the family HTPC and whilst it sped it up, it's got nothing on my PC.

May you please post it's benchmark with CrystalDiskMark

When i inserted it as a not boot it was great and managed to get very high numbers

formatted it and installed a new fresh windows, used CrystalDiskMark again to find that numbers is almost the half !! my SSDNOW 240GB numbers is higher than it !!

is their a firmware upgrade for it ?!

My PC

Intel Core I5 4460 Haswell 3.2GHz 6M Cache
GIGABYTE GA-Z97-D3H
Kingston HyperX Fury 1x8GB DDR3 1866MHz CL10 1.5V
ZOTAC GeForce GTX 950 AMP! Edition 2GB
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB + SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD753LJ 750GB
SeaSonic S12II Bronze 620W
Cooler Master HAF 912 Compact

 

[Fireman Dave]

 

[Mohamed_Yousri]

Mine can't reach the half of this numbers after the new windows installation

Is there any specific settings shall i revise at the BIOS ?!!

 

[Fireman Dave]

Mine can't reach the half of this numbers after the new windows installation

Is there any specific settings shall i revise at the BIOS ?!!

Might be of assistance.

 

[Mohamed_Yousri]

Many thanks for your feedback

But mainly my problem is in it's speed not installing the operating system

Will try to follow the instructions and see if it will work and improve the performance