Reddit mentions of Asus Accessory Hyper M.2 X4 Mini Card M.2 to 32Gbit/s with PCIE Slot Flexibility Retail

you dont need to raplace the motherboard, you could also go for a sata ssd or buy a pci-e card to fit the m.2 ssd
something like this
https://www.amazon.de/Asus-Hyper-M-2-X4-Mainboard/dp/B017YUCAXS/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1510742529&sr=1-1&keywords=asus+m.2+pcie

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017YUCAXS/

Your mobo has an mSATA port so no. You'll need to buy an adapter.

I ended up using one of these when I had a similar issue.

https://www.amazon.com/Asus-Accessory-32Gbit-flexibility-Retail/dp/B017YUCAXS

Yes, that's an x4 card so works in x8. That is rather expensive though. You can get the fastest flash based NVMe drive + M.2 adapter for less.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-MZ-V6P1T0BW-Express-Solid-State/dp/B01M215R0B/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/HYPER-M-2-MINI-Interface-Motherboard/dp/B017YUCAXS/

Note that using the x8 slot will reduce the x16 slot to x8, since the slot share the x16 bandwidth. GPU Performance impact is very small though.

This one should work.

https://www.amazon.com/Asus-PCI3-0-3PIN-32GBIT-HYPERM-2X4MINICARD/dp/B017YUCAXS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473966183&sr=8-1&keywords=Asus+Hyper+M.2

Your CPU has 40 PCIe lanes. A PCIe SSD as a scratch drive for ongoing projects is the last best thing you can do to what is already a beast of a machine.

*looks like you can use NVMe m.2 SSDs after all! Looks like after updating the BIOS on your board you can use an adapter.

> https://www.amazon.com/Asus-Accessory-32Gbit-flexibility-Retail/dp/B017YUCAXS

Let me know how this works. I may need one in my toolbox as well.

If I buy a PCI-E M.2 expansion card like this one, would I run into any issues being able to use this as a boot drive?

this is my favorite thus far:
https://www.amazon.com/UHD400-3840X2160-Samsung-40-Inch-Display/dp/B01CSC2P0K
they also make free sync and Gsync models for 200 more.

So that is for a 2.5" nvme drive also known as U.2. there are drives out there for it but it wont work for a 960 evo. Buying the hyper card is what you are looking for found here: https://www.amazon.com/Asus-Accessory-32Gbit-flexibility-Retail/dp/B017YUCAXS/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1485905489&sr=1-2&keywords=asus+hyper+m.2+x4
That does depend on your motherboard though. Latest chipset i have seen work is the Z97 and newer(x99,Z170, Z270, Etc.) you might have to experiment with which slots work properly to boot. Also, Windows 10/8.1 is recommended as anything older will need some ISO driver slip streaming trickery.

get an nvme drive and put it in one of these.

https://www.amazon.com/Asus-Accessory-32Gbit-flexibility-Retail/dp/B017YUCAXS

It'll give you the full speed that the 950 pro (which is what I'm using in my Z97 board at the house) can deliver. The downside to this is that you need another one to fully realize the mindblowing speed that thing can send and receive data at.

Even moving to and from a SATA SSD, the nvme drive won't even break a sweat and easily maxes out transfer speeds of anything it's reading/writing to.

I speak only from what I read. I am not an ~editor.

Approximate numbers, yes - or depending on budget & lanes available, much more.

Kudos to you for getting it. Usually I am called mad, before they rush off and buy a 16 lane intel that precludes nvme raid.

IMO if you google vid edit forums, you will find many do the same. It just hasnt sunk in yet for most tho.

Yes, I hear there are many who could use ~unlimited (512TB) gpu memory/memory address space.

What do you expect from 120GB/s $66 nvmeS & pcie2 ?:) - that's bargain basement, but damn good for the money & frugal use of usually scarce lanes.

A significant bump in write speed can be had by using the same model in 240GB ~$110 form.

~Only TR & Epyc are generous with pcie lanes & allow reasonable freedom for larger arrays. It has 64 pcie3 lanes, native bios bootable raid for up to 7 nvme devices for ~25GB/s read. (see db8haur youtube clip of TR w/ 8x 960 pro raid for 28GB/s using the asus card below (take away = on TR, expect ~linear scaling and little overhead - you get ~straight multiples of the individual drive's rated speeds when you stripe them on TR using pcie 3))

12.8GB/s officially for ddr3 1600, but sounds optimistic -
30-40GB/s sounds right for a good modern ddr4 ryzen, & 40-50GB/s for a TR, but again, don't quote me, check for yourself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR3_SDRAM

A sweet spot imo, is to saturate 16 lanes of pcie2 bandwidth for both read and write, which the above lane thrifty pcie2 bargain rig more than saturates in read (even 3 drives would), and approaches (75%) in write.

If your app works as well~ w/ your gpu set as 8 lane pcie3 as 16 lane pcie3, then you have nothing to gain from faster system dram cache over the nvme raid 0 array.

Its fairly logical that this may be the case - the task usually takes longer to process/render than to load the data, so 8GB/s of data from the system should keep the gpu busy.

NB that your drive selection focus is different.

You dont want size, you want speed, especially the weaker write speed, and cheap cos you want multiples to run in parallel.

Storage is a separate issue.

IMO, it doesnt have to be all things to all men. It is dedicated to writing large chunks of data, fast, and should be formatted optimally for this alone.

All the old saws about risk of raid are rot in this case - its a scratch drive little different to volatile dram, the system fully expects the contents to be lost, & ensures no damage is done by a failure/power outage.

Whatever the array size, it will be huge vs Dram.

A major over riding consideration is the parts dont tell the whole story, which is that hbcc working as intended, should intelligently anticipate reads and prefetch into higher level cache, and delay writes to enhance performance.

Video editing sounds to have eminently predictable data flows to me.

above products links etc:

ASRock Ultra Quad M.2 Card

https://www.amazon.com/Asus-M-2-X4-Card-flexibility/dp/B017YUCAXS

https://techadict.com/shop/electronincs/memory/corsair-force-series-mp500-120gb-m-2-nvme-pcie-gen-3-x4-ssd/

This and this are the same thing right? I wanted a black PCB.

I'm just going to pop it in and see what happens. If anything I can return it.

> Heya,

> imo there's not that much difference in between boards once you get to X99 -- unlike "normal" consumer grade boards where the variances are sometimes huge.

> So I'd say pick a board which you like / has the features you need, and just go with that. If you go with an i7-5820k you don't have to concern yourself with Turbo Boost 3.0, as this is only used by the new X99 CPU's (Broadwell-E).

> Be aware though that the Haswell-E boards by ASUS (X99-A instead of X99-A II) had problems booting with non-xHCI conforming devices attached (I believe due to USB handshaking issues with the USB 3.0/3.1 controller), but don't quote me on that. I have that problem personally (X99-Deluxe) when I try and boot with my PS4 controller attached. If I unplug it before booting, everything is fine.

> Maybe someone more knowledgable can chime in on that. Haven't read anything on the new versions though.

> Other than that, Asus offers expansion cards that go into the PCIe slot, should you need/want them later on. That said, you can also get off brand ones from Amazon.com or what have you.

> I don't really see why you shouldn't be able to RAID two M.2's on an i7-5820k. Afaik that's all in all 24 lanes that would be used at any given time (x16 by Graphics card + x8 by two M.2's), leaving you with 4 extra. It's debatable if it makes sense to RAID two or more SSDs, but you should be able to if you want to.

~ /u/apexbang

Heya,

imo there's not that much difference in between boards once you get to X99 -- unlike "normal" consumer grade boards where the variances are sometimes huge.

So I'd say pick a board which you like / has the features you need, and just go with that. If you go with an i7-5820k you don't have to concern yourself with Turbo Boost 3.0, as this is only used by the new X99 CPU's (Broadwell-E).

Be aware though that the Haswell-E boards by ASUS (X99-A instead of X99-A II) had problems booting with non-xHCI conforming devices attached (I believe due to USB handshaking issues with the USB 3.0/3.1 controller), but don't quote me on that. I have that problem personally (X99-Deluxe) when I try and boot with my PS4 controller attached. If I unplug it before booting, everything is fine.

Maybe someone more knowledgable can chime in on that. Haven't read anything on the new versions though.

Other than that, Asus offers expansion cards that go into the PCIe slot, should you need/want them later on. That said, you can also get off brand ones from Amazon.com or what have you.

I don't really see why you shouldn't be able to RAID two M.2's on an i7-5820k. Afaik that's all in all 24 lanes that would be used at any given time (x16 by Graphics card + x8 by two M.2's), leaving you with 4 extra. It's debatable if it makes sense to RAID two or more SSDs, but you should be able to if you want to.