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I've been wanting to do some small upgrades but finding the answers to my questions all in one place has been all but possible, and so before I piece them together incorrectly and come up with a wrong conclusion, I want to see if someone has some more experience with this.
I've been looking at the Samsung 960 EVO series but I had some concerns about using them on my current motherboard, the Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z (spec sheet in link). So I had several questions regarding M.2.
Because that motherboard doesn't have an m.2 port, I'll have to buy an m.2 to PCIe adapter. I also know this is like one of the last motherboards that used PCIe v2 which brings a whole new subset of questions. I'm about to get into a little math, so I definitely would appreciate if someone pointed out if I was wrong.
PCIe v2 should be half the throughput of v3 which is 500 MiB/s vs 1GiB/s respectively. The adapters I see for sale on amazon are PCIe 4x compatible, thus 4x500 would be 2GiB/s. This seems like it would negatively effect performance as it may be enough for the write speed of the EVO of 1900 MB/s but definitely not the read of 3200 MB/s which would require around 3051 MiB/s. If I could've used the x8 slots, it seems like that would be fine, but I haven't seen any x8 compatible ones. Is there any way to make this work?
On top of that, I was looking at some adapters that held two m.2 ssd's, but one used a SATA connection. I can't see this as being viable at all, but I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something completely obvious. Wouldn't running m.2s on SATA be a terrible idea? The bandwidth throughput would be 600MB/s which is just enough for a regular SATA SSD.
Does it look like I'll want a new motherboard before I start looking into M.2's? I was going to upgrade down the road, but I was hoping to be able to get faster drives now, and just switch them over to the new board when I do the full upgrade.
On the slim chance that I can actually make this work on this board, the reason I was looking at the two slot PCIe adapters is that instead of getting the 960 Pro, I saw that two 256 EVOs and two adapters was cheaper then one 960 500GB Pro. Would that be a bad idea, or just shell out the extra 40 bucks for the Pro?
Hope the question wasn't too long winded, but thanks for at least taking the time to read
tl;dr: can I make Samsung 960 EVOs work at their full bandwidth on a Asus Crosshair V Formula Z through any means?
I've been looking at the Samsung 960 EVO series but I had some concerns about using them on my current motherboard, the Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z (spec sheet in link). So I had several questions regarding M.2.
Because that motherboard doesn't have an m.2 port, I'll have to buy an m.2 to PCIe adapter. I also know this is like one of the last motherboards that used PCIe v2 which brings a whole new subset of questions. I'm about to get into a little math, so I definitely would appreciate if someone pointed out if I was wrong.
PCIe v2 should be half the throughput of v3 which is 500 MiB/s vs 1GiB/s respectively. The adapters I see for sale on amazon are PCIe 4x compatible, thus 4x500 would be 2GiB/s. This seems like it would negatively effect performance as it may be enough for the write speed of the EVO of 1900 MB/s but definitely not the read of 3200 MB/s which would require around 3051 MiB/s. If I could've used the x8 slots, it seems like that would be fine, but I haven't seen any x8 compatible ones. Is there any way to make this work?
On top of that, I was looking at some adapters that held two m.2 ssd's, but one used a SATA connection. I can't see this as being viable at all, but I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something completely obvious. Wouldn't running m.2s on SATA be a terrible idea? The bandwidth throughput would be 600MB/s which is just enough for a regular SATA SSD.
Does it look like I'll want a new motherboard before I start looking into M.2's? I was going to upgrade down the road, but I was hoping to be able to get faster drives now, and just switch them over to the new board when I do the full upgrade.
On the slim chance that I can actually make this work on this board, the reason I was looking at the two slot PCIe adapters is that instead of getting the 960 Pro, I saw that two 256 EVOs and two adapters was cheaper then one 960 500GB Pro. Would that be a bad idea, or just shell out the extra 40 bucks for the Pro?
Hope the question wasn't too long winded, but thanks for at least taking the time to read
tl;dr: can I make Samsung 960 EVOs work at their full bandwidth on a Asus Crosshair V Formula Z through any means?
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