M.2 as a OS Drive? I have SSD's in raid 0

toolmaker_03 · Mar 22, 2016

ok so I have 2 X intel 3700 SSD's in a raid 0, I have been using them for 4 years, and the setup seems to be fast and stable.
I have been looking at the M.2 drives, and they say there twice as fast, so I have been considering trying this option for my operating system, windows 7.
can the M.2 cards be setup as a main drive?
how easy is this process?
is it the same as setting up a SATA SSD as a main drive?
I like the idea, but if the programming is not there yet to support this as a main drive, its ok, I just wont use it.

USAFRet · Mar 22, 2016

This depends on the motherboard.
Is your board capable of booting from that drive? Not all are.

ko888 · Mar 22, 2016

What's the brand and model of the motherboard?

Preferably you would want the motherboard's M.2 slot to have four PCI Express 3.0 lanes for the M.2 PCIe SSD.

tical2399 · Mar 22, 2016

toolmaker_03 :

I'm using a 256 gig 950 pro as my os drive on an msi x99 sli plus. It has a pci-3 3.0 4x m.2 slot. It was a simple as installing the drive and installing windows form a usb key. I don't remember having to go into the uefi or anything. I'm using windows 10, but 7 may be alot different.

captaincharisma · Mar 22, 2016

you should check your motherboard manuel to see if it can be used as a drive. some motherboards only let the M.2 slot be used with small SSD drives so they can be used for a cache drive

toolmaker_03 · Mar 22, 2016

well my current Motherboard is a DX79SR and does not support M.2, but the newer high end motherboards seem to all have this as a option on the motherboard, I was just hoping that it was not like the revo drive cards, and others when they first came out, and really could not run as a main drive. by the time I get there in a couple of years, I will look for a motherboard that has good support for this type of drive, as this will be part of my next build. I try to start my builds years before I complete them, and I may be on windows 10 by then.
thanks for the replies this is really helping.

toolmaker_03 · Mar 22, 2016

captaincharisma :

my mother board does support using a SSD drive as a caching drive, and I have a small 120Gig SSD for this.

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