ronvmeijer :
USAFRet :
And then not be able to boot from it.
Is that so? What a misery...so there's nothing else to do than accept the slow speed of the SSD...what a bummer...
It may or may not be.
I know my ASRock Z97 will not boot from a drive in a PCIe adapter.
These boards are older than the drive. They do not know how to handle them properly.
Personally, I would have waited to spend the extra on an NVMe drive until I had a motherboard that can natively use it int he dedicated port.
And that is exactly what I am currently doing.
My system is SSD only. But no NVMe drive, because I can't utilize one at full speed.
Like having a 10 year old Honda Civic (Z97 board), but buying racing tires (NVMe) for it. And then wondering why you're not getting full performance out of the tires.