Question Only PCIe x1 slot available for SSD boot drive.....

[ncsercs]

ASUS H81M-PLUS w/ i5-4690 16GB RAM.

I know I'll need an adapter card for the SSD.

What M.2 drives can I use to get speeds faster than SATA?

I know NVMe drives are out of the quesion.

Thanks!

 

[PingSpike]

ASUS H81M-PLUS w/ i5-4690 16GB RAM.
What M.2 drives can I use to get speeds faster than SATA?

None. PCI-e 1x 2.0 provides 500MB/s max bandwidth. The SATA3 ports on that motherboard will provide 600MB/s. That's theoretical of course on both numbers.

 

[Insert_Nickname]

In this case, get a good quality SATA drive like the 860EVO or MX500. Both pretty much max out the SATA interface.

For a home system, unless you're running some serious workloads, you'll never notice the difference between one of those and an NVMe drive.

With high-end NVMe drives, you hit the point of diminishing returns very quickly, simply because there are (almost) no consumer class workload that can even begin to stress them.

None. PCI-e 1x 2.0 provides 500MB/s max bandwidth. The SATA3 ports on that motherboard will provide 600MB/s. That's theoretical of course on both numbers.

You'll get about ~560MB/s real world sequential out of SATA. An NVMe drive connected to a PCIe 2.0 x1 should do around 450'ish MB/s.

 

[ncsercs]

Ok, thanks! I've already have an 860 EVO. Will pass on the M.2 NVMe.....