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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: tiziano on November 30, 2017, 01:42:02 pm

Title: Gigabyte Aorus 9 and SSD m2 PCIExpress
Post by: tiziano on November 30, 2017, 01:42:02 pm

Goodevening,
my name is Tiziano and I have a question for you. If I buy a Gigabyte Aorus 9 can I connected three Samsung SSD M.2 via PCIExpress?

Best regards and thanks for help me.

 :)

Title: Re: Gigabyte Aorus 9 and SSD m2 PCIExpress
Post by: shadowsports on December 01, 2017, 04:07:10 am

X299??  Yes.  board supports 3 m.2's.

However, do your research.  RAID support crippled.  Intel VROC still not available.  Individual drives work great.  Read/write performance is good.   

Chipset:
1 x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2260/2280 SATA and PCIe x4/x2 SSD support) (M2P_32G)
1 x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2260/2280/22110 PCIe x4/x2 SSD support) (M2M_32G)
1 x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2242/2260/2280 SATA and PCIe x4/x2 SSD support) (M2Q_32G)
8 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors

Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10
 * The M2M_32G connector must work with an Intel® VROC Upgrade Key to support RAID configuration.
 * Refer to "1-12 Internal Connectors," for the installation notices for the M.2 and SATA connectors.

Title: Re: Gigabyte Aorus 9 and SSD m2 PCIExpress
Post by: tiziano on December 01, 2017, 08:15:30 am

Dear Shadowsports,
thank you so much for your support. Yes X299 is the chipset of the motherboard.

Title: Re: Gigabyte Aorus 9 and SSD m2 PCIExpress
Post by: shadowsports on December 01, 2017, 02:45:49 pm

Using the drives as standalone is not a problem.  Trying to run in RAID 0 worked, but write speeds were better than reads.. Have never seen that before.  After more than a month, trying every driver known to man, formatting GPT, MBR, reinstalling windows more than 10 times and ultimately requesting assistance from Gigabyte support we gave up.  VROC is still not available.  We even tried putting an Asus add-on card in so we could use the PCIEx bus coupled to the CPU to see if that would help.  It didn't.  64Gigs of ram and 7920x CPU... Tried with different BIOS revs as well.  So, if you aren't going to use RAID, I fully recommend the board.  Disk I/O, processing power and frame rate performance with everything set to max is off the charts.

Title: Re: Gigabyte Aorus 9 and SSD m2 PCIExpress
Post by: tiziano on December 02, 2017, 01:50:00 am

Dear Shadowsports,
again thank's for your support.
I don't want to use RAID in my workstation so now I think that three M.2 on Aorus 9 is not a problem but I have still one question for you: if I use three M2 and a GC-ALPINE RIDGE Thunderbolt 3 add on card (see this link: http://it.gigabyte.com/products/page/mb/gc-alpine_ridgerev_20#kf)  could there be problems in terms of SATA 3 band saturating?

Best regards and thank you again  :)

Title: Re: Gigabyte Aorus 9 and SSD m2 PCIExpress
Post by: shadowsports on December 02, 2017, 12:08:47 pm

Check the manual.  PCIe lanes support can depend on the CPU you choose.