Can I add a PCI Card with M.2 SSD to my dell?

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My 2009 Dell is running Windows 10 - almost acceptably - but I'd like to give it a boost, for instance with an M.2 SSD bootdrive.
The DG33M05 (rev A00) SE0709 (Socket 775) motherboard has the following free PCI slots:

  • PCI
    PCI Express x1
    PCI Express x16
Will (any of) these support a pci card with onboard M.2 drive - which seems a more elegant solution than chaining a new SATA drive - or is there a chance that I'll spend the cash but the card/drive is not recognised due to the age of the motherboard?
Thanks for any insight
Best!
 
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Many thanks @countmike. I had not considered lacking BIOS - but, hence, my useful choice of the motherboard forum. I already had an M.2 (from my other desktop - a Skull Canyon), so not throwing much money, I'll have to pay more to buy a SATA. With the M.2 I only needed to buy a modest costing PCI card for it - which claimed to be bootable - but of-course not if not seen by the BIOS!
It looks like a SATA SSD for me then...
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Even if it worked I doubt any system of that age would be likely to BOOT from it. BIOS has to have that option for it to work.
Another thing, not all M2 drives are faster than normal SATA SSDs so just that means throwing money on it.
Brand name computers are at even worse disadvantage because of custom BIOS.
 
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If any windows, starting from W7 Sp1, are cleanly installed on SSD connected to SATA port in set to AHCI mode, windows will know it's SSD and set everything accordingly including turning Trim on and disabling Defrag for it. Like that you don't have to do any adjustments for it. And no, it will not die in a week, month, year or more even with auto defrag on. It's just that defragmentation doesn't do any good on SSD because of the way it works.
Windows will show "Optimize" but that's just running trim command for SSD.
 
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Many thanks @countmike. I had not considered lacking BIOS - but, hence, my useful choice of the motherboard forum. I already had an M.2 (from my other desktop - a Skull Canyon), so not throwing much money, I'll have to pay more to buy a SATA. With the M.2 I only needed to buy a modest costing PCI card for it - which claimed to be bootable - but of-course not if not seen by the BIOS!
It looks like a SATA SSD for me then.

Thanks to all...
 
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