Help with m.2 adapter fpr pcie???

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Bought a M.2 Kingston Predator 240GB ssd to upgrade my P6T Deluxe V2 Asus mobo. When i ordered it I thought it was supposed to come with an adapter for a pcie slot but didn't. Now i'm having trouble trying to find the correct one. I think I'm reading some of the specs correctly, as some of them seem to be able to connect to a regular ssd and to an M.2 ssd at the same time? Am I reading this correctly? Sure could use some advice if anyone knows what I should order.
P6T Deluxe v2 mobo
12GB Ram
i7 920 1st grn cpu
Gtx 660 ti
Win7-64bit
Big Thank you if you can help.
 
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I am afraid I have some bad news. You have a very old motherboard that was first released at the very beginning of 2009. It is a 7 year old X58 motherboard that cannot properly support a modern PCIe ssd. On a board that old you wouldn't be able to use a PCIe ssd as a boot drive.



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The Original Ralph

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here's the kind you want - either the Asus Hyper M.2 Kit or the Addonics. The asus M.2 > PCIe adapter is a little higher quality, in design as well as execution - asus uses a taller mounting socket as well as standoff for the screw, so the M.2 SSD will have a larger gap between it and the expansion card, allowing for more airflow behind it

asus
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ASUS-HYPER-M-2-X4-ACCESSORY-FOR-ASUS-X99-DELUXE-USB3-1-ORIGINAL-ONE-/231788858224?hash=item35f7b14b70:g:-XoAAOSwnipWZ4FF

addonics
http://www.addonics.com/products/adm2px4.php
 
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Thx Original Ralph! I actually called Kingston in Southern California and they will send you the Kingston PCIe card for $15us and they pay the shipping. I was quite impressed with the service from them. They required that I email them a copy of the invoice to prove that I purchased that m.2 ssd as they don't sell them retail, but I believe they know of the shortage for these cards they made an exception. The part # is "SNA-HHHL/P"
 
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So I have received the pcie adapter, I've been able to install the new os but I'm running into a booting issue. 99% of the time I reboot it can't find the M.2 ssd, give me the option to hit the "any key" because it can't find a boot device. I can hit the "any key" sometimes once and sometimes several times then it will go into the os on the M.2 drive. I can't figure out why it just won't go in the first place. Any one have any ideas?
 
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I am afraid I have some bad news. You have a very old motherboard that was first released at the very beginning of 2009. It is a 7 year old X58 motherboard that cannot properly support a modern PCIe ssd. On a board that old you wouldn't be able to use a PCIe ssd as a boot drive.



 
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JFC, how is it possible to have a wrong anwser marked as solution, and be one of the first results that show up in google?

Only in tomshardware...

I HAVE and samsung 950 pro on a pci-e adapter card from ebay, sticked in my ASUS P6T Deluxe v2, and IT SIMPLY WORKS!

Of course, instead of givin 2300MB/s read transfer, i get 1500MB/s since it only supports PCI-e v2, but IT WORKS, and its blazing fast!

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BTW, the pci-e adapter was the cheappest one on ebay, under 5 euros...
 
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So. Can you repeat for a stupid one please ? P6T Deluxe v2 can use PCIx SSD OR M.2 on PCIx adapter as main boot drive ?


I have SM951 I wonder if I Can use it. Or only newer -->NVMe <-- drives can do it.

P.S.

At list I have AHCI based unit, back then there were no NVMe , period. Wonder if it'll work.
 
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Have you successfully booted from the Samsung 950 Pro on Asus P6TD Deluxe?




 
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For now I am using SSD regular to boot and M.2 for all programs.

When I'll try to install Windows I'll try on M.2 and will report.
 
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Hi.

Were you able to use the M.2 drive for boot?

thanks.



 
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Honestly I haven't tried it yet. It's work pc and I simply hadn't had time to mess with it yet. I mean I guess what I can do I can boot with flash card and check it out if drive visible to begin with, because if it's not I don't have to install anything we'll know .... I'll try to do it in near future (a week or less) and will report.
 
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YES
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you confirm the booting from ssd m2 with pcie adapter and p6t deluxe v2??? with which adapter? and ssd???
 
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I'm wrinting in chinese? IT WILL BOT, LOOK AT THE SCREENSHOTS!!
and I already told you, I'm using the cheapest adapter that I found on ebay. It makes no diference whatsoever, it acts only as an extension cord!!
 
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