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- Yes it should work fine. I have installed a M.2 PCIe x4 adapter in my old x58 motherboard with a Samsung 950 M.2 SSD an even thought the motherboard was only PCIe 2.0 it work at a reduced read/write rate. Since your motherboard is PCIe 3.0 it should work beautifully or you even consider the newer and faster 960 SSD's. There are at least four adapters out there that work I know work Here are 2 adapters at work with three M.2 SSD's.
2. I cannot guarantee that it will work since I do not have that motherboard but you might have to update the BIOS and install the NVMe drivers. I see no reason that it would not work. I have cloned my OS to these devices an it works great. You might want to change your locations for your files on those many disk drives. These devices are so fast that I actually have tested putting everything OS/Applications/All project files on only one device. (I am sure Harm is turning over in his grave) The one drive for all worked beautifully but to avoid confusion on my end, I am using two SSD. One for OS/Applications as usual and the other for all current Project files. Hard disk drives are now relegated to archiving and backup only.
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4. Never defragment a SSD. Forget RAID for performance, it can be used for reliability. Never put current active project files on hard disk drives again they are only suitable for archiving and backup As a checkup on my SSD's after installation I run CrystalDiskMark. Here is my 1TB 960 Pro doing its job. The important value for video editing is the Sequential performance.
You see a Sequential Write rate of 2170 MB/s from CrystalDiskMark and with the Premiere Pro BenchMark Disk I/O test we get near that with 1952 MB/second.
I have been in electronics/computer systems since the early 1950's and this 3.5 GB/second read rate boggles my mind.
- Yes it should work fine. I have installed a M.2 PCIe x4 adapter in my old x58 motherboard with a Samsung 950 M.2 SSD an even thought the motherboard was only PCIe 2.0 it work at a reduced read/write rate. Since your motherboard is PCIe 3.0 it should work beautifully or you even consider the newer and faster 960 SSD's. There are at least four adapters out there that work I know work Here are 2 adapters at work with three M.2 SSD's.
Which adapters would you guess are most likely to work with a motherboard like mine?
2. I cannot guarantee that it will work since I do not have that motherboard but you might have to update the BIOS and install the NVMe drivers. I see no reason that it would not work. I have cloned my OS to these devices an it works great.
If NVMe drivers need to be installed, do they have to be installed before the OS, or after?
You might want to change your locations for your files on those many disk drives. These devices are so fast that I actually have tested putting everything OS/Applications/All project files on only one device. (I am sure Harm is turning over in his grave) The one drive for all worked beautifully but to avoid confusion on my end, I am using two SSD. One for OS/Applications as usual and the other for all current Project files. Hard disk drives are now relegated to archiving and backup only.
Yes; Harm might turn in his grave. His skepticism in regards to SSD's being used for more than OS/Applications (if I recall correctly) was their durability when being written to frequently. My understanding was that an SSD could be written to a finite number of times, and that Harm believed that number was too low for some tasks, but might be high enough in the future when SSD technology improves.
Has that improved significantly in current technology?
Can we write to current SSD's significantly more times than we could to those available a few years ago?
4. Never defragment a SSD.
What kind of maintenance should be done for an SSD? (if at all). Just reformat ? I vaguely recall the great SSD debate here four years ago, and I think some suggested that we shouldn't reformat often either.
Forget RAID for performance, it can be used for reliability. Never put current active project files on hard disk drives again they are only suitable for archiving and backup
I only use the mechanical RAID 0 setup for frequently written large and high bitrate exports from After Effects and DaVinci Resolve.
Maybe I could use those SATA6G pots for SSD drives instead now (if they're now good for writing to).
Both the SATA ports it use are "Marvelle" ports. Whatever that means, I don't know if they can be used like regular SATA ports.
Those Sequential Read/Write speeds you're getting are fantastic! Disk performance is the bottleneck with my system.
Even the D: Kingston 120GB SSD I'm using for CinemaDNG footage from the Blackmagic pocket is not quite fast enough.
RoninEdits​ What you said about raw and uncompressed footage is one of the other main reasons I'm considering installing PCIe SSD's. Even a SATA6G SSD struggles with reading said footage fast enough.
- The ASUS Hyper M.2 X4 Mini is a good card.
- Any time.
- Yes the lifetime depends on how many writes you have. The warranty on the 960 Pro 1TB SSD is 5 years or 800 Terabytes of writes, That is like writing 512 GB every day for 5 years! Enterprise hard disk drives are typically 5 year warranty
- No maintenance except let TRIM do its thing.
On that older motherboard you have to test those SATA ports because they were early attempts at SATA III implementation and some were better than others. Here is a decent SATA III SSD on a good port.
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