NVMe SSD in old PC

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I have a PC with an old Asus crosshair v formula motherboard. Plenty of PCIe 2.0 ports spare. I doubt I will be able to boot from the drive when I install it but the adaptor does say it is backward compatible with PCIe 2.0 and 1.0 x 4.

Obviously I'm going for a budget NVMe which is the Silica Power from amazon which is R1200 including shipping and taxes.

Do you guys think its worth it? Currently have a sata SSD crucial and it has so slow write speeds but acceptable read speeds so looking at installing my most run applications and games on the NVMe.
 
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No model details for any of the stuff you mention.

Why not just get a new sata 970 evo?
 
ponder said:
No model details for any of the stuff you mention.

Why not just get a new sata 970 evo?
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Okay.

https://www.amazon.com/Silicon-Power-512GB-Gen3x4-SU512GBP34A80M28AB/dp/B07L6DKM8V
https://www.newegg.com/global/za-en/silicon-power-p34a80-512gb/p/N82E16820301394

It's about R1250 landed and shipped to my address.

https://www.geewiz.co.za/cables-ada...x4-adapter.html?sfdr_ptcid=2961_617_367960752

R179 for the Vantec PCIe adapter.


Now I know because of the age of my motherboard it would likely not be able to boot from the drive but will work as a additional drive. The reason I'm opting for this drive is because of space. I already have a whole bunch of drives so it will just add more cables.

The read and write speed of this drive will exceed a sata based ssd by soooo much.
 
cavedog said:
Ohh wow thank you for that! :)
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I have a 990FX board and its bios was adapted to boot from M.2 via adaptor card. You need Win 10 as Native Win 7 does not support it. there was a way to to alter the drivers and install with modified windows disk.
 
Magnum said:
I have a 990FX board and its bios was adapted to boot from M.2 via adaptor card. You need Win 10 as Native Win 7 does not support it. there was a way to to alter the drivers and install with modified windows disk.
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I'm going to try it out. The read and write speeds on these NVMe drives are crazy fast and you begin to think why this was never introduced earlier. It's more than double that of some expensive sata ssd uses no cables to connect and is backward compatible with PCIe 2 and 1.

I saw some demos on youtube pf a guy running on PCIe 2.0 and these NVMe drives and was getting over 1600MB/s read and write speeds. Insane speeds for these old motherboards.

512GB Silicon Power is just $59.99 so I would say that is pretty well priced too at the same price of a new xbox or ps4 game.

I'm excited to get the setup working and will report back as soon as I'm sorted with it by hopefully end of next week.
 
I got a Mushkin 1Tb a while back . It's speed is almost halved by the bord but it was worth the upgrade as the cheapest TB ssd was more than 3X the price.
 
Magnum said:
I got a Mushkin 1Tb a while back . It's speed is almost halved by the bord but it was worth the upgrade as the cheapest TB ssd was more than 3X the price.
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Yes the bottleneck will be the board with PCIe 2.0 but the speeds will likely be more than double that of the expensive sata ssd.

No cables no hdd filling the box up just a tiny ram chip like for so much extra performance.
 
gamer16 said:
No need for a SSD, just wire 220v directly to the spindle motor of your good old hdd.
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Serously...You need to pulse it at 220V. Already did that. Have a video of it somewhere.
 
gamer16 said:
Haha I wonder how fast those platters can actually spin before they shatter.
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They don't shatter. It is metal platters. the BLDC motor does not have enough power to ovespin them.
 
Magnum said:
They don't shatter. It is metal platters. the BLDC motor does not have enough power to ovespin them.
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Yes I'm not a complete idiot, they are made from aluminium or glass, and they can shatter.

Especially when you do bad things to them.

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gamer16 said:
Yes I'm not a complete idiot, they are made from aluminium or glass, and they can shatter.

Especially when you do bad things to them.

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Then I guess my drive must really be old. Got a few Bigfoots lying around. And a fireball. Those plates are Heavy!
 
Magnum said:
Then I guess my drive must really be old. Got a few Bigfoots lying around. And a fireball. Those plates are Heavy!
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Yeah old ones most likely are metal, coated with something. Do they still work? Old drives I find at least for the one's I have will either die in the first year and if not live on for infinity.
 
So just an updated. Ordered the Silicon Power 512GB NVMe SSD and installed it in my old pc. Motherboard is a Asus crosshair V formula with custom bios. Thanks @ponder The motherboard only has PCI express 2.0 and so the port will be the bottleneck because 3.0 is faster.

SSD cost me R1050 all inclusive shipping, taxes and obviously the SSD. The Silicon Power 512GB.

Amazon took 5 working days to deliver. I'm using the cheapest Vantec pci adapter I could find and that was from Geewiz.co.za for R179.

Some pictures and speeds. 1.5GB/s read/write is not bad :eek::laugh: :eek::D

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@Yuu
 
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