I am a video editor.
I have tried researching this before buying and am getting nowhere.
MB - GA-Z97X-UD3H BIOS F7
i5-4690K OC to 4.2GHz
32GB DDR3 @667
EVGA GTX 900 in PCIeX16 slot
SIIG Firewire card in PCI slot
NOTE: *PCIeX8 shares with PCIEx16. PCIEx4 shares with PCIeX1. All PCI1 will be unavailable when PCIx4 is installed. Set BIOS to X4 if use PCIX4 card.
Intel SATA SSD 730 240GB in a SATA slot.
Three hard drives in SATA slots including slots 4 and 5
M.2 PCIe free
*Note: M.2, SATA Express, and SATA3 4/5 connectors will become unavailable when an M.2 SSD is installed. [You can only use one of these at a time]
OS Windows 7 Pro. UEFI
MY editing software will NOT run on Windows 10.
I would like to have either an NVMe Scratch Drive (working drive) for files I am editing in conjunction with my existing SSD SATA OS drive and then move them over to my hard drives for storage or reverse the two if I can boot from the NVMe which I don't think is possible'
But, it doesn't appear that the MB will recognize NVMe in slot M.2 only AHCI.
I think that leaves only a PCIe add-in card to hold the NVMe SSD, but the slot configuration confuses me.
Can any of you
1. Let me know if an add-in card will work in my setup and am I right to think they are pretty much all the same?
2. If my only option is a scratch or working drive NVMe (no boot drive NVMe) which one would give me the best throughput assuming my setup wouldn't limit it's potential?
Thanks,
John
Craftech Productions
I have tried researching this before buying and am getting nowhere.
MB - GA-Z97X-UD3H BIOS F7
i5-4690K OC to 4.2GHz
32GB DDR3 @667
EVGA GTX 900 in PCIeX16 slot
SIIG Firewire card in PCI slot
NOTE: *PCIeX8 shares with PCIEx16. PCIEx4 shares with PCIeX1. All PCI1 will be unavailable when PCIx4 is installed. Set BIOS to X4 if use PCIX4 card.
Intel SATA SSD 730 240GB in a SATA slot.
Three hard drives in SATA slots including slots 4 and 5
M.2 PCIe free
*Note: M.2, SATA Express, and SATA3 4/5 connectors will become unavailable when an M.2 SSD is installed. [You can only use one of these at a time]
OS Windows 7 Pro. UEFI
MY editing software will NOT run on Windows 10.
I would like to have either an NVMe Scratch Drive (working drive) for files I am editing in conjunction with my existing SSD SATA OS drive and then move them over to my hard drives for storage or reverse the two if I can boot from the NVMe which I don't think is possible'
But, it doesn't appear that the MB will recognize NVMe in slot M.2 only AHCI.
I think that leaves only a PCIe add-in card to hold the NVMe SSD, but the slot configuration confuses me.
Can any of you
1. Let me know if an add-in card will work in my setup and am I right to think they are pretty much all the same?
2. If my only option is a scratch or working drive NVMe (no boot drive NVMe) which one would give me the best throughput assuming my setup wouldn't limit it's potential?
Thanks,
John
Craftech Productions