Can I install My OS on an SSD plugged into a SATA3 PCI Express Card?

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  1. whs
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       #11

    Save your money for the PCI-e card. The Sata2 ports are just as good for the blocksizes (predominently 4K) that the OS is processing. My M4 has a R/W speed @ 4K blocks as shown below and that is well below the maximum thruput capacitiy of a Sata2 port.

    The nums are in MB/sec.
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  2. Posts : 24,479
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       #12

    Do these snips accurately show your board and case?
    Can I install My OS on an SSD plugged into a SATA3 PCI Express Card?-wg855_002.jpgCan I install My OS on an SSD plugged into a SATA3 PCI Express Card?-capture.jpg


    If so they are made with Dell specs. I had a very similar Dell GX280 which was almost identical in construction with only the right side of the case opening. It's not a standard mATX or ATX configuration. As ignatzatsonic said the PSU was an odd size too, smaller than "normal".
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  3. Posts : 1,797
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    Thread Starter
       #13

    Britton30 said:
    Do these snips accurately show your board and case?
    Can I install My OS on an SSD plugged into a SATA3 PCI Express Card?-wg855_002.jpgCan I install My OS on an SSD plugged into a SATA3 PCI Express Card?-capture.jpg


    If so they are made with Dell specs. I had a very similar Dell GX280 which was almost identical in construction with only the right side of the case opening. It's not a standard mATX or ATX configuration. As ignatzatsonic said the PSU was an odd size too, smaller than "normal".
    Hi Britton30,

    Yes that's exactly how my board and case look.
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  4. Posts : 24,479
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       #14

    Unfortunately that is non-standard and that case wouldn't accept a standard board. A very good case can be had for ~$50USD or so though. If you're going to get/want/need a new board a new build would be good. :)
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  5. Posts : 1,797
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       #15

    Yes I had a feeling it wasn't the standard type.

    I'll have to wait until I'm ready to replace everything.
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  6. Posts : 24,479
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       #16

    Burdus77 said:
    Yes I had a feeling it wasn't the standard type.

    I'll have to wait until I'm ready to replace everything.
    In the meantime you can still install a SSD and enjoy the speed until you can get the other components. I spent about 2 months gathering all the parts for my last complete build.
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  7. Posts : 1,797
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       #17

    Yes looking forward to getting an SSD. I've looked at some comparisons on YouTube and even running on a SATA 2 board it's still much quicker than a spinner.

    Only thing that does concern me is people saying that performance can degrade over time and the only thing to do is to completely erase it. Seems like a lot more hard work than defragging a spinner!
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  8. Posts : 12,012
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       #18

    Burdus77 said:

    Only thing that does concern me is people saying that performance can degrade over time and the only thing to do is to completely erase it. Seems like a lot more hard work than defragging a spinner!
    By all accounts, the "degrade" thing is grossly exaggerated, particularly on recent generation SSDs.

    There was a long thread on this forum that referred to another web site that was doing torture tests on a wide variety of SSDs. Really beating them up. I don't remember what that site was, but the results showed that the read and write performance remained intact much longer than anticipated.

    My Intel SSD has a toolbox with a graph indicating "estimated life remaining". After 13 months, it still says 100%. I have written 1.8 Terabytes to it in that time.
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  9. whs
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       #19

    Even a 'Secure Erase' is not a big deal. You image your SSD, make a secure erase and restore the image. 1 hour elapsed time.

    But I only once made a secure erase to see what it does. I did not really see a diffrence afterwards. My oldest SSD runs since 4 years.
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  10. Posts : 24,479
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       #20

    Degradation isn't a worry, the site ignatz referred to they used several SSD and I think the first failed only after something in the neighborhood a petabytes had been written, which would be several years of ordinary use. TRIM and garbage collection and better controllers make SSDs much more tolerant to write/erase cycles.

    Of course the best use of SSD is to load the OS and most used apps on it and put your Users file ans AppData on a separate HDD.
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