Hard Drive

[StanJ]

Computers usually have their boot drives selectable in the BIOS, I was wondering if a HDD on a PCI-e card would show up there as it is not a conventional place for a drive. Apparently people don't have problems with using it as a boot drive, but they may start about 5 seconds slower than SATA-3 drives. Perhaps it has to find a port or something. So your computer would boot up in 15 seconds as opposed to 10 seconds, but once it is booted the pci-e cards are supposedly faster.

That IS a point forrest, if the board's BIOS does not see the PCIe SSD or does not give you the option to boot to it, you can't. You would also have to upgrade to a newer MB that does allow it.

 

[rockytopva]

I ordered...

1-SAMSUNG 850 EVO 2.5" 1TB SATA III 3-D Vertical Internal SSD
1-SYBA SD-SATA-4P PCI SATA (1.5Gb/s) 4 Port RAID 0/1 Card

I ordered the RAID card as I needed extra SATA slots. Thanks for your help!

 

[StanJ]

I ordered...
1-SAMSUNG 850 EVO 2.5" 1TB SATA III 3-D Vertical Internal SSD
1-SYBA SD-SATA-4P PCI SATA (1.5Gb/s) 4 Port RAID 0/1 Card

I ordered the RAID card as I needed extra SATA slots. Thanks for your help!

Nice....hope it really helps to speed up your system.

 

[rockytopva]

I have added to my computer a
1) pci-e express SATA card
2) Samsung 850 SSD EVO 1 TB solid state drive.

This made the computer very quick! I may delay the next computer build for at least a couple of years as everything is working great!

 

[StanJ]

Nice Rocky....luv the acrylIc case.