New build
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I just wanted one last super build. Getting to old to worry. And yes I do a lot of gaming but I find that a gaming computer is great for rendering.
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Sorry, but why a SATA-SSD?
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@numerobis said:
Sorry, but why a SATA-SSD?
It came down to a choice between SATA III standard and backup solutions or modifying bios and using custom drivers....
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I don't understand... why would you need a modified BIOS and custom drivers?
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@numerobis said:
I don't understand... why would you need a modified BIOS and custom drivers?
When I was looking, most of the larger drives were server based, and would not boot from them, or I had to buy an adapter - a spine. What ever. I wanted simplicity. Later I might go SAS and my drive would still work. What else would you do?
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Why SAS? But even then... where is the problem to boot from a M.2 drive? You would need an external SAS controller anyway with this board. I think i still don't get it.
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@numerobis said:
Why SAS? But even then... where is the problem to boot from a M.2 drive? You would need an external SAS controller anyway with this board. I think i still don't get it.
When I start a project I plan everything out. I put together the plan then built it. I couldn't afford to build it all at one time. I spent 4 months collecting parts, before the build
At the time of my "planing" this is what I saw:"SSD drives offer the best experience when they are used as the root or boot drive. The problem is that the existing Windows software has an issue with many drives booting from the PCI-Express bus rather than from SATA. This means that having an M.2 drive using PCI-Express while fast won't be the primary drive where the operating system or programs are installed. The result is a fast data drive but not the boot drive."
You have to remember that I'm old, self taught, and what I deal with normally is wood
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My laptop has a 512GB m.2 PCIE drive for OS + progs, with a SATA SSD for storage.
It starts up fast and has not skipped a beat in the 6 months I've had it.
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I'm using a X99 system with PCIe M.2 SSD (AHCI) as boot drive since 2015 (win 7).
There were some AHCI M.2 drives where you couldn't boot from (3-4 years ago) and there have been some limitations for a while with NVMe based drives (instead of AHCI) and Win 7, but even these should have been fixed i think
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2990941/update-to-add-native-driver-support-in-nvm-express-in-windows-7-and-wiBut with X299 boards and Win 10 there definitely shouldn't be any problem booting from NVMe M.2 SSDs. So i don't know where you got this info from and how old this article was, but it's not the case anymore.
(And the ASRock X299 GAMING K6 Fatal1ty comes with 3 PCIe x4 M.2 ports, which wouldn't make any sense if you couldn't use M.2 as a boot drive.)But nice system overall
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Thanks for the info! With every day comes something new to learn
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