I am looking to build my first computer for about 7 years. Boy has technology changed when you are the one responsible for making sure everything plays nicely together. Think I have found a good combo but have read through my research certain things that concern me so thought I would chat with the experts.
First here is my desired setup:
Asus X-99 Deluxe II
i7 6900K
Corsair 64 GB RAM
Nvidia GTX 1080
Samsung 950 Pro SSD M.2 NVMe- Boot Drive
Other various mechanical and SSD drives.
My first concern is that I thought I read somewhere that I can't run my M.2 in the M.2 port of the X99 in NVMe mode. Asus support only refers me to the device list but it is not listed on there. It very clearly states that the U.2 port can be used with a NVMe SSD but not sure about the M.2. I believe I saw someone mention I could put the M.2 into the PCIe adapter provided and then run the M.2 in NVMe mode. Sound right or anyone have experience running an M.2 NVMe on the Asus X99? I would love for this to be my boot drive.
Is it also possible to run two M.2 SSD drives with one being boot and one being data?
My next concern would with the RAID setup. I want to attempt to run a RAID 0 with 4 1TB hard drives, run 1 6TB Western Digital hard drive alone, run 1 500 GB SSD alone. Can I run a RAID setup along side a single non-RAID drive? Thought I read somewhere that it was all RAID or all Non-RAID.
If so, will running a RAID setup conflict with the M.2 SSD running as the boot drive?
Thanks for any insight or anything I may have missed.
Toby
First here is my desired setup:
Asus X-99 Deluxe II
i7 6900K
Corsair 64 GB RAM
Nvidia GTX 1080
Samsung 950 Pro SSD M.2 NVMe- Boot Drive
Other various mechanical and SSD drives.
My first concern is that I thought I read somewhere that I can't run my M.2 in the M.2 port of the X99 in NVMe mode. Asus support only refers me to the device list but it is not listed on there. It very clearly states that the U.2 port can be used with a NVMe SSD but not sure about the M.2. I believe I saw someone mention I could put the M.2 into the PCIe adapter provided and then run the M.2 in NVMe mode. Sound right or anyone have experience running an M.2 NVMe on the Asus X99? I would love for this to be my boot drive.
Is it also possible to run two M.2 SSD drives with one being boot and one being data?
My next concern would with the RAID setup. I want to attempt to run a RAID 0 with 4 1TB hard drives, run 1 6TB Western Digital hard drive alone, run 1 500 GB SSD alone. Can I run a RAID setup along side a single non-RAID drive? Thought I read somewhere that it was all RAID or all Non-RAID.
If so, will running a RAID setup conflict with the M.2 SSD running as the boot drive?
Thanks for any insight or anything I may have missed.
Toby
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