Looks like Gigabyte is following MSI's lead, latest BIOS for Z97 and X99 support NVMe: http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/28441-gigabyte-latest-beta-bios-979.html#post495191
I'll look forward to that. I'm pretty sure it's just because my drive was an early production version made specifically for Lenovo and not an indicator of the performance of the regular production drives.
Good to hear, hopefully it's something that's completely fixable with just BIOS updates...
It was the Bplus M2P4A, at the time it hadn't been announced yet that the drive was 3.0 x4 so I didn't bother getting a 3.0 adapter.
Like I said though, I got about the same speed in the M.2 slot on that MSI board so I'm not sure if the adapter was the limiting factor or the drive itself.
The XP941 certainly but I wouldn't say the SM951 is easily available. The ones currently available are being pulled from some Lenovo laptop.
This may be the issue, it's X99 so I was using it in a slot with lanes from the CPU, the only PCIe slot on this board from the PCH is x1 so that's even...
I'm curious about this, I got one of the SM951s that were pulled from some Lenovo laptop off eBay and it booted just fine in the M.2 slot of the Gigabyte X99M Gaming 5.
Problem is, that slot is only 2.0 x2 so I got the Bplus M.2 to PCIe adapter to get the full speed but it would not boot at...
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