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pick your msata for Z68 series

mrcola

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pick your msata for Z68 series
« on: December 19, 2011, 06:36:31 pm »
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Hi,

I have come across the msata connector on gigabyte Z68 series.

There is a list of msata SSDs that gigabyte will definitly support

download.gigabyte.asia/FileList/ssd/isrt-ssd-support.pdf

As far as I understand, the SSD will just be the cache of your main drives, so it should take all msata SSDs whether it is in the list or not.

I haven't bought my motherboard yet. Could anyone please tell me if it is really picky or not

Thanks RW

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Re: pick your msata for Z68 series
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2011, 08:10:46 pm »
Ho and welcome.

I would tend to agree with you although I have no more knowledge on this particular motherboard's acceptance of drives.  I don't see why any particular drive should work better than any other but I don't think you would gain a lot by having a larger one over one of say 20 -30 GB as it is just a cache as you mentioned.
« Last Edit: December 20, 2011, 06:43:26 pm by Dark Mantis »
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teknology9

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Re: pick your msata for Z68 series
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2011, 06:36:15 pm »
Hi,

This link here might be of some use to you also...see below.

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=2601&page=7


teknology9
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Re: pick your msata for Z68 series
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2011, 08:20:49 pm »
Thanks teknology I am sure many people will find that interesting.  8)
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy

teknology9

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Re: pick your msata for Z68 series
« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2011, 09:19:24 pm »
Hi,

You may also find the next link of interest as it may answer your initial question mrcola....moreover there are a few words from a Gigabyte represenative regarding msata drives on the last page:

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=2593&page=1


Teknology9
Windows 11Home Edition
NZXT Phantom
Seasonic Platinum 1000w
Noctua NH-U12P SE2
Corsair 16GB 3200
Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite V2 Rev 1.5
MSI GeForce GTX 1650 D6 Gaming X 4G
Ryzen 5 5600
Samsung 970 Evo Plus - 250GB
Samsung 830 SSD - 250GB
PC building.........it's no fun if it's easy!!!