[SOLVED] Will my motherboard boot a M.2 SSD from a PCIE adapter card?

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Probably not natively, no.

Booting from PCIe M.2 drives first came around (on a consumer chipset) with Z97/early 2014.
H55 predates native support by ~4 years.

There are ways to modify a BIOS etc to enable booting, but given the limited 'benefits' to 99% of users (ie it's faster, but outside of benchmarks, it's not likely to 'feel' a bunch faster), a traditional 2.5" SATA SSD probably makes the most sense.

Barty1884

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Probably not natively, no.

Booting from PCIe M.2 drives first came around (on a consumer chipset) with Z97/early 2014.
H55 predates native support by ~4 years.

There are ways to modify a BIOS etc to enable booting, but given the limited 'benefits' to 99% of users (ie it's faster, but outside of benchmarks, it's not likely to 'feel' a bunch faster), a traditional 2.5" SATA SSD probably makes the most sense.
 
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