Let's say hypothetically I have a decently fast but very old system, for example dual Westmere Xeons
Will installing picrel and booting from an nvme gen 3 drive give me noticeable performance gains over a regular ole SATA 3 SSD?
Let's say hypothetically I have a decently fast but very old system, for example dual Westmere Xeons
Easton James
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Mason Hernandez
If you're running an old system like that what fucking difference does it make? It's obviously a server. You're not rebooting every day.
Lucas Foster
It's not a server, it's my main PC
Why so pissed?
Andrew Gutierrez
OK, so you're running a deprecated server as a workstation/desktop. Point still stands. You're obviously not gaming with it, so the only place you're going to notice any major improvement is in boot times. How often do you reboot? Probably not enough to justify the additional expense. SATA 3 is 6 Gbps. In all practicality you'll probably only effectively double that. 5 seconds boot time instead of 10, maybe.
Gavin Gomez
Can your hardware boot anything from NVMe drives? If not, the best you can do is to have the bootloader on a supported device and the actual ("userland") OS on the NVMe.
And don't ask me how to make Windows do that. Nobrainer on ganoo loonix.
Logan Young
you can not boot from that card you retard
bioses in 2009 didnt have pcie boot
Kayden Jones
Are you really that autistic, you can't think of a single use case scenario other than boot times and gaming? Jesus christ man.
William Ortiz
Mine does, sperg. Sorry.
Gabriel Harris
Windows has the system reserved partition that should be similar to /boot
Ryder Lewis
>You're obviously not gaming with it, so the only place you're going to notice any major improvement is in boot times.
absolute halfwit. go back ->
Henry Stewart
Yes it will be a bit faster
However you cant boot nvme directly if your bios doesnt have support for it built in
The only exception is the samsung 950 pro since it has a bios module built in
Brandon James
PCIe boot is not the same as NVMe boot
Ryan Miller
Yes, my machine will boot from an NVMe SSD, with the appropriate PCIe adapter.
Have sex.
Kevin Peterson
>my special snowflake imaginary system works
go back
Kevin Clark
why the fuck else would you need ssd for? nvme or sata regardless, they meant for booting os only
Nathaniel Wood
Then put /boot/ on the old SATA SSD and / on the NVMe. As long as GRUB can read it, it will work.
Ian Allen
Severe case of mental fucking retardation.
Aaron Carter
Even as plain storage it won't be as fast as a modern system but it will for sure be faster than a SATA 3 SSD. But as some user/s pointed out, there's no real advantage to making it a boot drive. It might even be slower to boot.
What exactly are you doing on that machine that you think a faster drive will help with? Hard to answer your question without knowing what you use it for.
Lincoln Williams
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Huh didn't know this was a thing I have some spare m2 cards wish I could try this back when I had some older used pcs
Blake Cooper
X58 can't boot from NVMe without clover or a SSD with a legacy boot ROM, x79 started to introduce it, x99 had it.
I use an Intel 750 in my x79 (c602) machine and it works fine.
In terms of performance, as long is you have x5690s you'll see a pleasant bump, anything slower and you'll get slowdowns just from your CPUs being ass and being limited to ECC 1333Mhz triple channel.
Isaac Morales
I did this a few months ago with an x58 platform I still daily.
Booting and going in and out of hibernation mode is where I saw a HUGE speed boost compared to my previous SATA2 SSD.
Day to day tasks? Not so much. I did see some perceivable speed boosts when loading/saving VMs I run on my system and of course copying large files and large amounts of small files within the same drive. Overall I'd say the upgrade is worth it.
You do need another disk drive or a USB stick with Tianocore DUET on it if your system is BIOS only if you want to use an NVME SSD as your system drive.