- Joined
- Sep 28, 2011
- Messages
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming G1
- CPU
- i7 4770K
- Graphics
- HD 4600 / Sapphire Pulse RX Vega 56
- Mobile Phone
Hey all,
Been a long time since I've done any significant hardware changes to my hack. Currently have a Gigabyte Z87 board with an i7-4770k running 10.14. Have an opportunity to pick up a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H cheap, which has a 10Gbs M.2 slot. Since I need to upgrade the size of my boot drive anyway, and want to do a fresh install of 10.15, I thought I would take this opportunity to pick up a 1TB or 2TB NVMe instead of a SATA SSD and improve boot time and file access and such slightly.
So my specific questions:
1) does pretty much any NVMe SSD work these days or are there specific brands/controllers to avoid? Was thinking about picking up an Inland Premium from Microcenter since there is one close to me. I don't need the highest spec NVMe, but I'll pay the extra for a 970 EVO if it'll make installing the OS significantly easier.
2) would it be worthwhile to get a PCIe to NVMe adapter instead of the built-in M.2 slot in order to be able to get more speed out of the drive?
3) not hardware specific, but for either option above, is there anything different I need to be looking out for when installing Catalina to an NVMe drive vs SATA?
Thanks!
Been a long time since I've done any significant hardware changes to my hack. Currently have a Gigabyte Z87 board with an i7-4770k running 10.14. Have an opportunity to pick up a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H cheap, which has a 10Gbs M.2 slot. Since I need to upgrade the size of my boot drive anyway, and want to do a fresh install of 10.15, I thought I would take this opportunity to pick up a 1TB or 2TB NVMe instead of a SATA SSD and improve boot time and file access and such slightly.
So my specific questions:
1) does pretty much any NVMe SSD work these days or are there specific brands/controllers to avoid? Was thinking about picking up an Inland Premium from Microcenter since there is one close to me. I don't need the highest spec NVMe, but I'll pay the extra for a 970 EVO if it'll make installing the OS significantly easier.
2) would it be worthwhile to get a PCIe to NVMe adapter instead of the built-in M.2 slot in order to be able to get more speed out of the drive?
3) not hardware specific, but for either option above, is there anything different I need to be looking out for when installing Catalina to an NVMe drive vs SATA?
Thanks!