I have an ASUS X99-Deluxe II mobo with an Intel 6850K that already has an M.2 drive for booting Windows 10. I want to add the fastest drive I can get for a reasonable price. That is, the Intel Optane is out, and I'd like to keep it around $300 but $400 is fine if possible. I need a 1 TB drive, the fastest I can get in that price range. I don't care about value per GB, I care about speed.
For what? Mainly processing some data sets that can get quite large (Read 100+ GB, write 20+ GB), but also running a couple VMs used for coding & building. Plus I'm impatient waiting for I/O and can afford this right now.
On this mobo, the M.2 slot is taken by the boot drive and only 1 PCIE 3.0 slot is taken by an NVidia card. There are some other drives on the SATA 6 ports. This leaves me with several PCIE 3.0 x16 slots, numerous SATA 6 ports, and 2 U.2 ports, none of which would be shared with anything else installed, according to the manual.
The U.2 slot seems like the fastest bet, being 32Gb/s, but I can't seem to find any info about using the U.2 ports. What drive could I get and do I need any adapter or cable?
Second comes a PCIE x16 slot. I think this would mean getting an M.2 adapter card and an M.2 drive. If so, is there a preferred card that is faster than others, or more compatible with Win10, or more stable, etc?
Lastly, the SATA 6 ports, but I'm really hoping that the U.2 or PCIE slots would be better.
Any info or suggestions appreciated.
For what? Mainly processing some data sets that can get quite large (Read 100+ GB, write 20+ GB), but also running a couple VMs used for coding & building. Plus I'm impatient waiting for I/O and can afford this right now.
On this mobo, the M.2 slot is taken by the boot drive and only 1 PCIE 3.0 slot is taken by an NVidia card. There are some other drives on the SATA 6 ports. This leaves me with several PCIE 3.0 x16 slots, numerous SATA 6 ports, and 2 U.2 ports, none of which would be shared with anything else installed, according to the manual.
The U.2 slot seems like the fastest bet, being 32Gb/s, but I can't seem to find any info about using the U.2 ports. What drive could I get and do I need any adapter or cable?
Second comes a PCIE x16 slot. I think this would mean getting an M.2 adapter card and an M.2 drive. If so, is there a preferred card that is faster than others, or more compatible with Win10, or more stable, etc?
Lastly, the SATA 6 ports, but I'm really hoping that the U.2 or PCIE slots would be better.
Any info or suggestions appreciated.
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