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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: njb on September 10, 2014, 11:04:09 pm

Title: Booting from M.2 drive
Post by: njb on September 10, 2014, 11:04:09 pm

I have the Z97X-UD5H motherboard.  If I install a M.2 drive - does anyone know if I can boot from that drive.  Either the Sata or PCIe version of the M.2 drive.  Cheers.   :)

Title: Re: Booting from M.2 drive
Post by: autotech on September 11, 2014, 01:08:00 am

Yes you can just set it as your first boot device in bios.

Title: Re: Booting from M.2 drive
Post by: polypenko on September 11, 2014, 06:16:32 pm

I have the Plextor M.2 -256gb m6e, works like a charm.

Title: Re: Booting from M.2 drive
Post by: absic on September 11, 2014, 07:11:38 pm

Check my reviews here:

http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,14710.0.html

http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,14703.0.html

They might help you.

Title: Re: Booting from M.2 drive
Post by: njb on September 15, 2014, 04:22:03 am

Thanks for that.  It helps a lot.

Does anyone have any experience with the Samsung XP941.  This is a lot faster, using 4 PCIe lanes, but uses NVMe protocol instead of the older AHCI used by the Plextor unit.  Apparently NVMe is not so well supported by MB manufactures, or Window prior to 8.1, so there is some question around recognition of the drive at boot time.  It would be interesting if anyone had tried it with this board.

Title: Re: Booting from M.2 drive
Post by: Coolsailor on September 15, 2014, 01:13:20 pm

See also the following topic:
http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,15003.0.html