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the.mknabster
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December 21st, 2020 07:00
M.2 card requirements
Hi all, I have a Precision 5810 tower and I'm considering upgrading my boot drive from a SATA SSD to possibly a M.2 NVMe SSD running off a PCIe internal card. I wanted to ask what hardware i would need/what is recommended. Also, I wanted to ask if there are any special settings i would need to alter in the BIOS so it could detect and boot from the PCIe mounted M.2 SSD. Thanks!
the.mknabster
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Posted December 23rd, 2020 05:00
This is great news @tl_mdx, thanks for posting it! I was looking at the same card, though i was also looking at the Startech version of the technology which only has one port on it, but i'm not sold yet on it. Either way, does the card and drive show up in the BIOS that you can set at the primary boot drive? Also, did you have to load any drivers into the Windows 10 boot media for the drive to be seen by that?
Thanks!
the.mknabster
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Posted December 23rd, 2020 07:00
Nice, sounds good! I now have a new project for the new year!
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Posted November 29th, 2024 19:20
Hey, wouldn't the PCI-e x4 lane be gen-2 only impeding it to run only 2GB/s
So we shouldn't be buying higher end or fastest M2 drives, correct ?
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Posted December 23rd, 2020 07:00
I'm using the Asus card on a fleet of 5810's and 5820's to boot without issue.
Each of the four NVME disks shows up in BIOS - I'm multi-booting various OS'es.
Have not tried soft-raid or VROC yet from the card - next project perhaps over the holidays.