990 fx extreme6 SSD

wardog wrote: parsec wrote: This is not so hard to figure out, if you have some experience with PCIe NVMe SSDs. Says you. Is there any drive interface you haven't thoroughly run through the ringer there yet?

Some people love video cards, I love SSDs. Drive IO is the slowest thing in a PC, what better way to speed things up?

Not many other drive interfaces to use with a PC. Interface is the main point, SATA is one, so is NVMe. Both need a driver to operate, and a little UEFI/BIOS magic to boot from. NVMe SSDs are not unique hardware devices in that each one needs special support. We don't need that for SATA drives, the same goes for NVMe drives.

We can use SATA III SSDs on a SATA II or even SATA I interface. PCIe just sends data back and forth, the driver program does the magic of converting the data into the format each side needs. Video card data won't mean anything to a SATA or NVMe driver, but a video card driver deals with it fine. You can use a PCIe 3.0 compatible video card on a PCIe 2.0 interface mother board, right?

The hardware level data interface for SATA drives is what? It's not SATA, that is a data protocol, not a data transport mechanism. It's actually a type of PCIe, used to be PCIe 2.0, now Intel has PCIe 3.0 in their 100 series chipsets, although they call in DMI 3.0, previously DMI 2.0. AMD might use something else, but I doubt it. The Microsoft generic msahci SATA driver can be used with Intel and AMD chipsets.

I sure don't own every NVMe SSD made, but as long as I have a driver for it, it will work.

parsec wrote: There are M.2 to PCIe slot adapter cards that can be used with M.2 NVMe SSDs. You could use one of the adapter cards in the PCIE3 or PCIE5 slot, and provide a PCIe 2.0 x4 interface to the RD400. But since the interface is PCIe 2.0, you won't get the full performance of the RD400.

That's what I thought. Thanks for the clarification parsec.
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I used an Intel 750 NMVe SSD in my ASRock Z77 board. With an i7-2600K, it supports PCIe 2.0. I had one of those in the board, and that SSD worked fine, a little slower on the large file sequential read speed. But I did have a PCIe 2.0 x4 connection. I then put an i5 Ivy Bridge CPU in the board, which supports PCIe 3.0, and I then had the full large file sequential read speed. That's using benchmark programs to test speeds. Real world usage is always slower, monitor drive speed while installing a program, if it peaks at 100MB/s, that is fast. Other factors such as latency are more significant.

How big of an improvement would the addin card do me over just putting it in the M.2 slot. And might there be any addin card you would recommend if i can't get one thru Toshiba ? 

i already have the bare drive tho, it was a amazon deal at 119$ but discount was not applied to the AIC vers sadly~

Torakk wrote: Huh...they do appear to be diff sites http://www.asrock.com/mb/index.us.asp?s=AM3%2b is the list w/o mine and http://www.asrock.com/mb/index.asp?s=AM3%2b does have it mine is missing the .us.?

Great. Another boner. Thanks for pointing it out. I'll see if I can get the webmasters attention and have it corrected.


Again, Thanks,
wardog

parsec wrote: I see the 990FX Extreme6 listed in ASRock's USA website: http://www.asrock.com/mb/index.asp?s=Current

Yet the conundrum, if Current, is why doesn't it show when clicking AM3+ on the Main Menu
http://asrock.com/mb/index.us.asp?s=AM3%2b


EDIT: Most won't think nor bother to notice your way or the All Product List at the bottom.


Edited by wardog - 28 Nov 2016 at 1:35am