Does my ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0 supports PCIe NVMe SSD as boot device ?

[sampathk]

Hi All,

Does my motherboard ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0 supports PCIe NVMe SSD (M.2 PCIe SSD Adapter Card to PCI-E x4) as boot device ? or PCIe AHCI version?
Current ASUS BIOS version - 2701 (AMI Version - 2.10.1208).

Am planning to buy Samsung 950 Pro 256GB M.2 NVM Express SSD or equivalent which is NVMe and not AHCI.


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[madmatt30]

Will it work ?? Likely yes.

Absolutely not worth the outlay though when you're going to be massively restricted on speeds because your board only has a PCI express 2x4 slot spare.

You're not going to see any faster performance than a standard 850 evo ssd which will be just over 1/3 of the price.

 

[Dragos Manea]

I think the specifications for an x4 slot is 2 gb/s which is a lot faster then 600 mb/s which has sata 3 port ( 20 gbs compared to 6 gbs) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#PCI_Express_2.0. As you can see from the specification of pci-e 2.0 it can support 500 mb/s per each lane, that means 500 mb/s per lane X 4 lanes will result in a 2 gb/s speed. Yes Op it will work like a charm dont worry and it will be much faster then a sata 3 port.

 

[sampathk]

Will it work ?? Likely yes.

Absolutely not worth the outlay though when you're going to be massively restricted on speeds because your board only has a PCI express 2x4 slot spare.

You're not going to see any faster performance than a standard 850 evo ssd which will be just over 1/3 of the price.

Thanks madmatt30, If I can able to install the OS in PCIe NVMe SSD and boot from it with the above motherboard configuration am fine with PCIe NVMe SSD.

 

[sampathk]

I think the specifications for an x4 slot is 2 gb/s which is a lot faster then 600 mb/s which has sata 3 port ( 20 gbs compared to 6 gbs) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#PCI_Express_2.0. As you can see from the specification of pci-e 2.0 it can support 500 mb/s per each lane, that means 500 mb/s per lane X 4 lanes will result in a 2 gb/s speed. Yes Op it will work like a charm dont worry and it will be much faster then a sata 3 port.

Thanks Dragos, Since my system board don't have M.2 slot, can you please suggest a good M.2 PCIe SSD Adapter Card?

 

[Dragos Manea]

Well kingston i saw they have, here toghether with a m2 ssd https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Digital-Predator-SHPM2280P2H-240G/dp/B00V01C4RK/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1475173275&sr=8-9&keywords=kingston+m.2

 

[sampathk]

Will it work ?? Likely yes.

Absolutely not worth the outlay though when you're going to be massively restricted on speeds because your board only has a PCI express 2x4 slot spare.

You're not going to see any faster performance than a standard 850 evo ssd which will be just over 1/3 of the price.

Thanks madmatt30, I purchased SM950 Pro 256 GB and installed Linux Mint 18 on it. It worked PCIe SSD NVMe as boot devices.

Thanks all again ...