Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

[Mark Knecht]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 7:29 AM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On 2020-04-02, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Oooooooo. <me wipes up the drool> That nvme speed is faaaasssssstttt.
> > Do you happen to have the OS on that and if so, just how fast does it go
> > from BIOS or Grub to bootup complete? I'm almost scared to ask. o_O
>
> I've been wondering if older fairly generic motherboards (7-8 years
> old) from the likes of Asrock would be able to boot from an NVMe card
> using a PCIe adapter like this:
>
>
https://www.amazon.com/QNINE-Adapter-Express-Controller-Expansion/dp/B075MDH28Y
>
> I suspect not...
>
> --
> Grant
>
The questions section says it will only boot from the card if the BIOS
supports the MB booting from NVMe drives