will my motherboard support ssd

[Faredoon]

i have a i7 4770k cpu
asus z87 k motherboard
8gb ram
1 tb hdd
500 w power supply

i saw online it says for ssd u need something like AHCI mode or something like that i dnt knw if my motherboard has that or any other requirements that are needed for an ssd so can someone tell me is my motherboard compatible with the last ssds like samsung pro or evo ??

 

[Zachasaurs]

yours is for sure compatible as it is a more modern motherboard and cpu it just may not be able to do any of the special raid arrays

 

[inerax]

Yes. A SSD will work great with your MOBO. It will speed up everything. Get at least a 250gb so you can install windows, programs and games onto the SSD.

I have the Samsung EVO 500 and LOVE it. I will never use anything else.

 

[Faredoon]

can anyone explain wat raid is i guess i have raid 10 or something

 

[Faredoon]

@inerax


samsung says the evo gives 512 mb read write but i dnt trust advertisments i want an honest answer from you how fast does your computer boot and how fast are the transfer speeds in real life ??

 

[inerax]

@inerax


samsung says the evo gives 512 mb read write but i dnt trust advertisments i want an honest answer from you how fast does your computer boot and how fast are the transfer speeds in real life ??

The ads are very close to real life. My SSD boots very fast. I would say with windows 7 it boots in 1/2 the time or better. Windows 8 is near instant. Every program opens near instantly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIrjwx6umdg (windows 7 example)

AHCI (dont worry about it... it dont matter)
The Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) is a technical standard defined by Intel that specifies the operation of Serial ATA (SATA) host bus adapters in a non-implementation-specific manner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Host_Controller_Interface

Raid is for multiple HDD OR SSD's. You wont need to worry about this unless you get multiple SSD's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

 

[inerax]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147193 (250gb)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147249 (500gb)

If my SSD were to die today. I would pickup one of the above.

 

[Faredoon]

Can you tell me the exact number of speed that u get like 300 Mbps 400 ?? Or wat

 

[inerax]

Im not home or i would run a test.(dumb work)

Here is a Toms test though

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/samsung-840-evo-review-1tb-ssd,3567.html


Trust me... if you have a HDD now, and you upgrade to a SSD, you will NEVER go back to a HDD being your system partition. It is the best upgrade ever.

 

[Faredoon]

Well I would appreciate if u would go home and do the test and inform me about the speed try coping a single big file and multiple folders both will give you different transfer speeds and let me knw will be kind of you

 

[inerax]

If i remember i will. 2 kids and a wife (all screaming) tends to make me forget everything

 

[Faredoon]

Yea true take your time no hurry btw u from USA ?