It has been a while since I posted, mainly because the PC I built myself with help from members here has been going, problem free, for over 10 years
I would like to add extra internal storage as I feel my HDD may be on its last legs, loud and slight clicking sound on start up. I have had 2 external drives that failed at bad times (clicking sound, unrecognisable by PC with various software and tests etc).
For internal storage, SSD appears to be the norm, I am looking at options but not sure what my PC is capable of, it is new territory for me. I will add the Motherboard specs in detail and hopefully someone will be able to help.
I am guessing from what I learnt so far that the Marvell PCIe SATA 6.0 Gb/s controller for 2 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports would be the right SATA ports to use? I have heard various things about speeds with other JMicron ports not being up to speed.
My second conclusion was that M.2 SSD drive is apparently compatible but would not offer any extra speed?
I use the PC for Photo editing and digital design and it is getting pushed these days with file sizes, saving etc.
I am considering these SSDs as they are "named" companies with good reputations, Crucial and Transcend I know will be compatible, the others should be too?
Around same price
Crucial SSD 1TB (1000GB) BX500 or MX500 (not sure the difference).
Sandisk SSD Ultra 3D 1TB or SSD PLUS 1 TB (again not sure the difference).
Samsung 870 QVO 1TB
PNY CS900 1TB SSD
Slightly Cheaper
Silicon Power A55 Series SSD
Transcend 1TB TS1TSSD220Q
Western Digital Green 1 TB
Team T-Force VULCAN 1 TB
Motherboard
Asus Motherboard P7P55D-E EVO
storage
expansion slot
2 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots (single at x16 or dual at x8 / x8 mode)
3 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 slots (2 at 5GT/s [blue]; 1 at 2.5GT/s [gray])
2 x PCI slots
Intel® P55 Express Chipset
JMicron® JMB363 SATA & PATA controller
- 2 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports (gray)
external interface
NEC USB 3.0 controller
- 2 x USB 3.0 ports (blue, at back panel)
Intel® P55 Express Chipset
- 12 x USB 2.0 ports (6 ports at mid-board, 6 ports at back panel)
VIA® VT6308P controller supports 2 x IEEE 1394a ports
(one at midboard, one at back panel)
VGA
PCIe 2.0 x16 (single at x16 or dual at x8 / x8 mode) ×2
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz
AMD Radeon HD 5700
8GB memory (2x 4GB 1333)
HDD Seagate ST31000528AS 1TB 7200RPM
Thanks again for any advice and help
I would like to add extra internal storage as I feel my HDD may be on its last legs, loud and slight clicking sound on start up. I have had 2 external drives that failed at bad times (clicking sound, unrecognisable by PC with various software and tests etc).
For internal storage, SSD appears to be the norm, I am looking at options but not sure what my PC is capable of, it is new territory for me. I will add the Motherboard specs in detail and hopefully someone will be able to help.
I am guessing from what I learnt so far that the Marvell PCIe SATA 6.0 Gb/s controller for 2 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports would be the right SATA ports to use? I have heard various things about speeds with other JMicron ports not being up to speed.
My second conclusion was that M.2 SSD drive is apparently compatible but would not offer any extra speed?
I use the PC for Photo editing and digital design and it is getting pushed these days with file sizes, saving etc.
I am considering these SSDs as they are "named" companies with good reputations, Crucial and Transcend I know will be compatible, the others should be too?
Around same price
Crucial SSD 1TB (1000GB) BX500 or MX500 (not sure the difference).
Sandisk SSD Ultra 3D 1TB or SSD PLUS 1 TB (again not sure the difference).
Samsung 870 QVO 1TB
PNY CS900 1TB SSD
Slightly Cheaper
Silicon Power A55 Series SSD
Transcend 1TB TS1TSSD220Q
Western Digital Green 1 TB
Team T-Force VULCAN 1 TB
Motherboard
Asus Motherboard P7P55D-E EVO
storage
expansion slot
2 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots (single at x16 or dual at x8 / x8 mode)
3 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 slots (2 at 5GT/s [blue]; 1 at 2.5GT/s [gray])
2 x PCI slots
Intel® P55 Express Chipset
- 6 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s ports
- Intel® Matrix Storage Technology supports RAID 0, 1, 5, and
JMicron® JMB363 SATA & PATA controller
- 1 x Ultra DMA 133/100/66 for up to 2 PATA devices
- 1 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s port
- 1 x External SATA port
- 2 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports (gray)
external interface
NEC USB 3.0 controller
- 2 x USB 3.0 ports (blue, at back panel)
Intel® P55 Express Chipset
- 12 x USB 2.0 ports (6 ports at mid-board, 6 ports at back panel)
VIA® VT6308P controller supports 2 x IEEE 1394a ports
(one at midboard, one at back panel)
VGA
PCIe 2.0 x16 (single at x16 or dual at x8 / x8 mode) ×2
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz
AMD Radeon HD 5700
8GB memory (2x 4GB 1333)
HDD Seagate ST31000528AS 1TB 7200RPM
Thanks again for any advice and help