i bought this Mobo and Ready to run, but have to choise good and cheap SSD Harddisk,, it's support SSD? and please suggest me the best one in price.
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Yes it support Solid State Drives (SSD), the 120GB Kingston SSDNow V300 and Crucial M5 have the best prices right now (around $0.66 per GB)
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Thank you. The board is an ASUS Sabertooth Z87 with a RAID controller onboard. I want to use both a RAID data array and SSD drives for OS. I am told the board can do this but I'm unsure about setup of this feature and thought the card may be an easier way to control the array and set the BIOS for hot swap SATA and let the card control the array. Maybe I should look at a different RAID card.
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I am not sure about the UEFI bios, can I can confirm that SSD comes with the latest firmware. I ccompared the firmware on my drive with the latest firmware on the crucial web site, and it was up to date. I hope this helps
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I would not buy this card, could not make it work and support is terrible. All most any external Raid will be faster than the Software raid on the motherboard. Plus if the board dies, you just move the card to anything that is working and you have your data back. If you have to move software raid to another MB and it is a different version or drivers, it can be an issue. So find a good card and you will have the best of both worlds. I do have some software raids in my office only to archive data to, not for working data. Hope this helps, Cheers
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I purchased a Crucial M500 240GB mSATA SSD and 2x4GB of Crucial DDR3-1600 CL11 1.35V RAM. They all work great. You are limited in performance RAM due to the 1.35V and SO-DIMM restrictions of the motherboard. There are only two DIMM slots, so the only way to upgrade later is to replace them with two new modules.
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You have picked a very nice motherboard. I will post the ram I have in mine, it cost, but it really depends on how much you want to spend. Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 2133 MHz (PC3 17000) Desktop Memory (CMD32GX3M4A2133C9). You can get cheaper ram, but make sure it is DDR3 ram for this board. I think Corsair is the best, but Kingston is good also. Yes, you can put both an SSD and HDD on that board. You should load your OS on the SSD drive since it is much faster than the HDD. I would recommend the Samsung 500GB SSD drive 840 Series, and the Velociraptor 1TB HDD. I have built lot's of computers, and these motherboards are really the top. If I can help you with any other questions you have just let me know.
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To use Intel's SSD support you need to run in RAID and your MoBo must have the correct chipset. There is a cap to the size of the SSD you can use. If not using RAID, I would go the route of Sandisk again. If running RAID or installing building a new system I'd go the other route.Using their caching software (rather than Intel's, as I don't run in Raid and didn't want to reconfigure my system), it definitely sped up my system and drastically cut my boot time.
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Any hard drive should be fine as long as it has a SATA connect. I would recommend looking into a SSD if you want a fast computer also to run your operating system on and maybe stick a few games (256 gb). As far as ram it should be fine with up to 32 gb at 1600 MHz (Although you don't need to go that high! 8 gb should suffice if you want to make it future proof you can look at 16 gb. Sound card is a part of this motherboard! Saves you a few bucks :). Finally graphics cards should all work considering they have a pci or pci express port. I currently use a GTX 770 4gb VRAM and it's more then enough. Hope this helped! Any hard drive should be fine as long as it has a SATA connect. I would recommend looking into a SSD if you want a fast computer also to run your operating system on and maybe stick a few games (256 gb). As far as ram it should be fine with up to 32 gb at 1600 MHz (Although you don't need to go that high! 8 gb should suffice if you want to make it future proof you can look at 16 gb. Sound card is a part of this motherboard! Saves you a few bucks :). Finally graphics cards should all work considering they have a pci or pci express port. I currently use a GTX 770 4gb VRAM and it's more then... » Read More Any hard drive should be fine as long as it has a SATA connect. I would recommend looking into a SSD if you want a fast computer also to run your operating system on and maybe stick a few games (256 gb). As far as ram it should be fine with up to 32 gb at 1600 MHz (Although you don't need to go that high! 8 gb should suffice if you want to make it future proof you can look at 16 gb. Sound card is a part of this motherboard! Saves you a few bucks :). Finally graphics cards should all work considering they have a pci or pci express port. I currently use a GTX 770 4gb VRAM and it's more then enough. Hope this helped! « Show Less
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Yep, works great... we use the SSD for the OS and installed programs. Then use a 1TB drive for data. Very fast boot times with this configuration.
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Pretty easy to do I placed Ina 128 sad from Kingston ... I believe any ssd on the market is compatible
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You can install it but it may not boot on the first try. If it does not wrk initially, you can boot from a USB or network, then you go to preferences and set the drive as your default boot drive and it will be fine. The boot time though is faster using ssd on a sata connection than on this card!
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The short answer is yes. That motherboard has a M.2 connector and supports a 42mm length NGFF SSD. However, if you are going to use the M.2 socket for an SSD that will be your primary operating system (OS) drive, then there are much better choices, i.e. Samsung XP941 and Plextor M6e PX-G256M6e, both of which use the PCIe interface rather than SATA. The PCIe interface is significantly faster and much more robust than the SATA III (6GB/sec) could ever hope to be. On the other hand, if you are just intending to use that M.2 socket for a cache drive to hopefully accelerate a mechanical hard drive on which you have placed your OS, then I suppose it would be acceptable for that purpose. However that would be a BIG MISTAKE!! You have selected a first-class Z97 motherboard for your system foundation, and therefore, you should tap into its significant potential for delivering blazing performance. Than means NOT using mechanical hard drives for anything other than data storage. Any system related drives should be SSDs, and since you have a M.2 socket onboard, then take advantage of that cutting-edge technology and populate it with a PCIe SSD. The Samsung model has 4 lanes and the Plextor has 2 lanes. Right now, the Samsung is only available online from an overseas source, but both Amazon and Newegg sell the Plextor 256GB model for $219.99, which is a good deal. Take a good look at the Plextor specs and you'll see that it delivers about a 170% increase in performance over a comparable SATA model. That would be the way to go! Hope that helps. The Beagle
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All SATA versions are backwards-compatible. Though, if you're springing for a new MoBo, you might as well toss in a newer HDD, too. WD 1TB are going for about $60 as of this writing, and it is incredibly easy to set this board up in many different multiple-drive configurations. So, you can still use your old drive (as I assume you'll at least want/need to get data off of it), but you can have something significantly faster and more capacious as your main drive. Well worth considering.
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I would select the one at the lower price , be it the Crucial or Samsung. Both are good drives and I'll bet you couldn't tell the difference between the two unless you ran benchmark software that told you one was faster. I have several different brand/size/speed drives and on a day-to-day basis there is no observable change in performance. Once you get a SSD you will be happy.
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I'm sorry. I'm not all that up to date with SSD's. I'm not sure if it will work.
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I bought a.256 SSD for my op system and start up.programs and used my HDD with another to.store music pics.etc....works.really well
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Update: You need to be CERTAIN the ssd is MICRO sata, and the other connection is STANDARD SATA, as I see it. My mistake was not even knowing there was such a thing as SLIMLINE sata, but WTH... Six bucks...? NBD... I'd send you mine, but I never get anything done. 'Buried somewhere anyway...