SSD 750 PCI-E & X79.

[idata]

Good evening! I have a question concerning support for SSD 750 PCI-Ex motherboard chipset X79. Not so long ago I was thinking about buying this card (SATA - is not seen as outdated and resembles an echo IDE), as the current software requires a radical solution for speed and other things, but Googling forums, I realized that X79 motherboards are not included in the support this device and work as a boot device it will not be (((. The question is - the X99 chipset so different from the X79? built-in support USB3?

Frankly speaking I do not feel the need to go to the X79 X99 for a few% performance increase. What is the problem that the literary manager for chipsets only support 9* Series? It is not the desire to Intel or me (us PC users) should apply to the producers of our boards requesting the release of UEFI-BIOS with support NVMe and drives them? Or is it some kind of hardware problem?

[AP16]

Well, G7 have a PCIE Gen2 slots, so performance will be limited (at least at sequental reads). Also, there can be a HW/BIOS compatibility troubles, due to old platform (G7 was based on i5520shipset, year 2009 piece of hardware).

[jbenavides]

Hello Memotz,

As JFFulcrum mentioned, the operation of PCIe* NVMe* drives has not been certified with systems using the Intel® 5520 Chipset .

In this case, you might want to check with the http://www.intel.com/support/oems.htm Computer Manufacturer Support if they have tested your server model with this type of SSD's.

I would like to add that the http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/product-specifications/ssd-750-spec.pdf Intel® SSD 750 Series is a consumer drive designed for performance, and it is not meant to be used for write-intensive usage nor Data Center Environments.

Since you plan to use the SSD to hold database files, we would advise to consider a drive of the http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/data-center-family.html Intel® SSD Data Center Family for NVMe*, that are designed for read- and write-intensive storage workloads in data center environments. Currently, there are different PCIe* NVMe* series that exceed the endurance capabilities of the 750. For example: Intel® SSD DC P3500 Series, Intel® SSD DC P3600 Series, Intel® SSD DC P3608 Series and Intel® SSD DC P3700 Series.