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    NVMe in M18x?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 18 and M18x' started by ssj92, Nov 17, 2017.

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    Has anyone tried using a mini pci-e to m.2 adapter to see if you can boot and recognize an NVMe drive?

    According to @Swick1981 bios, it says added support for NVMe drives in the change log and there are adapters that convert mini pci-e to M.2.

    We can move the wi-fi card to the DMC slot.

    Wondering if anyone has tried this or knows if this will actually work? I have a SM961 drive chilling here, but I can't find an adapter that is mini pci-e>wire>m.2 slot. They're all one physical piece and that won't fit without cutting. A wired version would allow me to stick the drive somewhere.

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    If anyone can find me a mini pci-e > wire > m2 adapter send me a link.
     
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    Even if you get it to work, it would nerf the M2 drive so much that it's not worth it. The is only a PCI-E 2x port which has max bandwith of 2.5gb/s, which is really meh for a NvMe SSD drive. I wouldn't bother if I were you.

    While i think the max read speed is around 300mb/s, so u'd be nerfing a NvMe drive to stock SSD performance.
     
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    Well doesn't matter anymore at this point. Couldn't find a mini pci-e to "M-key" NGFF adapter anyways. Going RAID0 route with SATA SSDs instead. lol
     
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    Well it makes sense tho, nobody would buy something like that since it would be basicially the same as an SSD or Msata SSD, which is cheaper. Raid SSD sounds really good! :)
     
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    Two 500GB Samsung 850 Evo RAID0 and one 1TB 850 Evo for extra storage + 512gb lite-on mSATA LOL hope I can break 1gb/s read with the RAID0
     
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