04-09-2014 06:49 AM - last edited on 03-05-2024 10:57 PM by ROGBot
04-09-2014 08:15 AM
04-09-2014 09:55 AM
Myk SilentShadow wrote:
Though I don't know what M.2 cards are available at this time, here in Aus all I can see on one retailer's site is mSATA cards. But, having said that and surprisingly the Impact supports all sizes of M.2 SATA SSD's 2242/2260/2280/22110. If you haven't seen, there are a couple articles on the Front ROG Homepage which explain all about the M.2 SATA cards. the 1st 2 digits are how high they are, in mm and the 2nd pair is the length of the cards, also in mm. i'm guessing also, the Impact supports cards with the B+M Key type....this is important for your research as there are 3 types. B, M and B+M.
04-09-2014 11:27 AM
04-09-2014 01:58 PM
Praz wrote:
Hello
As the connection for the NGFF interface is PCI express 2.0 x1 most any drive you use will be limited in performance by the interface. And the drive will all be slower than using a SATA 6Gb/s SSD connected to one of the onboard Intel SATA 6Gb/s ports.
04-11-2014 05:11 AM
RamCity wrote:
Note, the M.2 (NGFF) socket in this mobo supports both SATA and PCIe 2.0 x1 SSD's, but like Praz said, at PCIe x1, it's slower than SATA, so you are best to look at SATA M.2 SSD's. This also applies to the ASUS Maximus VI Impact. Compatible M.2 SSD's that we know of so far are the MyDigitalSSD M.2 2242 (only in capacities up to 128GB though), and also the Crucial M500 / M550 M.2 2280 models (in capacities up to 512GB).
ASUS need to improve their M.2 PCIe implementation to support PCIe 2.0 x2 (or PCIe 2.0 x4 would be very nice) to achieve transfer speeds higher than those currently available from good old SATA.
cheers, Rod
04-11-2014 01:31 PM
dedaciai wrote:
I am currently running a Crucial M4 and was thinking of going to the 550. Would I see a noticable improvement? I looked at benchmarks and it seems like it is between 25% to 40% faster depending on the benchmark. Also, I'd like to go the M.2 cause I am running a really small case (EVGA Hadron Air) and would like to remove the HDD cage to give the little thing more breathing room. The M.2 SSD would also really clean things up (no 2.5" SSD to see 🙂
06-15-2014 05:21 PM
06-15-2014 05:36 PM
Mitchilled wrote:
I was thinking of getting this one for my Maximus VI Impact:
Samsung XP941 256GB M.2 NGFF PCIe SSD (2280)
http://www.ramcity.com.au/buy/samsung-xp941-256gb-m.2-ngff-pcie-ssd-2280/MZHPU256HCGL-00000