ouPhrontis Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 (edited) My dated Z800 enterprise server has an onboard SATA II controller limitation, along with other quirks, so to make full use of modern SSDs I required a work-around. Not that a SATAII limit is to be scoffed at if you can saturate that with a good SSD, I'm using a Samsung Evo 850 (SATAIII), with a SATAII limit you'd see around 260 MB/s or so read and write, which'd be fine. To make better use of a SATAIII SSD though; as a work-around you can connect them through a PCIe lane, which for me got this; It might not be up there with latest M.2 speeds, but bear in mind; this is a 2009 server. I used a PCIe to 2.5" SATA card; the Sonnet Tempo, it's aimed at Macs but works in this PC, there are others but I've not personally tested them. Edited June 12, 2018 by ouPhrontis NATO - BF callsign: BLACKRAIN 2x X5675 hexacore CPUs for 24 cores | 72GB DDR3 ECC RAM 3 channel | GTX 1050Ti | 500GB SSD on PCIe lane | CH Products HOTAS | TrackIR5 | Win 7 64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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