Upgrading a Dell SC440 with an SSD

[incheye]

Hoping to get an SSD into my Dell SC440 to help speed up my boot times and kinda give this old PC\server a boot up the backside. Currently I'm running 3 spindle disks in a R5 for my boot disk on a dell cerc sata 6 controller (Sata 1.5 GB/s).
Ok to kick things off the Dell SC440 Motherboard is PCIE 1.1.... link to PCIE 1.1 on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#PCI_Express_1.1
I am thinking about putting a PCIE card in the 8x slot on the SC440 motherboard that will allow me to connect a sata SSD to the PCI card to get more throughput from the SSD as an alternative to using the sata ports on the SC440 Motherboard (SATA I 1.5 GB/s)
Now if the MB is PCIE 1.1 then according to wikipedia the max throughput is 2GB/s for the 8x slot so my question is, is it really worth putting a PCI card in the PCIe 1.1 8x slot and hooking up the sata SSD to it for the extra .5 GB/s????

Other things I have lined up are Proc upgrade and memory upgrades but id like to get the SSD in there first.

 

[drtweak]

Few things. The SC440 has limited ugprades. I've dealt with a LOT of dell servers old and new.

1) They will NOT boot form a PCIe SSD or NVMe. They are way too old for that. If you are using it just as storage then it will be fine.

2) you are better off buying a good PERC SATA III for cheap like this

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/112057344148?lpid=82&chn=ps&ul_noapp=true

so that you can utilize the full speed of the SSDs. Keep in mind PERC 5/6 cards, even though they are SATA II will default to SATA I Speeds on SATA III drives (I know went though this with a client a while back)

otherwise if you get the proper controller (Any SATA III RAID card will do really but PERC's are usually better if you plan on doing R5/6)

Also any R5/6 RAID are best with RAID cards that have RAM and a BBU for best performance.