I am looking for a recommendation on an SATA III pcie card to work with my Aurora R1. I have 2 Samsung EVO 850's: one 250gb and one 500gb along with the original 500gb HHD the unit came with. I would like it to be able to boot from the card. Some reviews I've read seem to indicate that if you boot from most of the cards you get a significant delay in boot as the system has to identify the pcie card before proceeding.

Randy Black

Has anyone tried using a PCIe SSD on the Aurora R1? I'm curious about whether or not it would work. Thoughts? Recommendations?

I searched Google a few times. Most people said that they could NOT get add-in PCIe card (with M.2 NVMe SSD installed) to boot on Intel x58 Chipset MB. I think the Legacy BIOS (aka NON-UEFI) is the problem.

Since I don't have a spare M.2-NVMe SSD to play with ... well, SATA-2/300 is fast enough for this old machine.

TheBlueWiz wrote:

I am looking for a recommendation on an SATA III pcie card to work with my Aurora R1. I have 2 Samsung EVO 850's: one 250gb and one 500gb along with the original 500gb HHD the unit came with. I would like it to be able to boot from the card. Some reviews I've read seem to indicate that if you boot from most of the cards you get a significant delay in boot as the system has to identify the pcie card before proceeding.

Randy Black

 

Well, since Aurora-R1 is non-UEFI, it's already really slow to BIOS post and boot. Obviously, it's not going to get any faster. No reason to even make this a requirement.

Let me know if you find one what works and boots. I might do this for under $50. This was originally a priority, but then the PCIe-NVMe idea appeared (and that kinda died).

I bought an Aurora-R6, and this R1 just stays the way it is. SSDs on it's Intel SATA-2/300 is actually pretty fast and much better than old spinners.

Well my replacement memory came today upon installing it finally showed all

12Gb.

My system is on over 90% of the month either creating 3D models, gcode

files and controlling sever printers. So boot time isn't a serious issue

but once or twice a week. The Samsung software gives better speed than the

standard driver.

So I'm putting putting Windows 7 on the SSD and apply all Windows updates

and drivers for internal devices as well as the Alienware software and

Intel test programs. I will then create a boot ICO of the disk and place it

on a bootable CD.

I well then put my 3D software, gcode generators and the files they use

along with all my D&D files and designs on the 256Gb SSD.

I'll use the original HDD as a backup for the main disk.

I haven't decided if I want to put my game files on the boot drive (SSD) or

put them on the small SSD drive.

Sounds like a good plan.

Glad to hear machine is stable and everything is coming together.