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Mini-PCIe SSD for the OS?
fwor
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One of my Shuttle SFF PCs has got a Mini-PCIe slot that I've never used, and wondering if I could make good use of it.
It seems that you can get wireless LAN cards (no interest to me - it's on a Gig LAN) and also SSD cards, which are actually relatively cheap - around £23 for 16GB if you buy direct from HK.
It also seems that ~some~ Mini-PCIe slots support mSATA - but sadly I don't think mine does.
Does anyone have any experience of using Mini-PCIe for a small drive just for the OS system files, and a conventional HDD for everything else? It seems that the I/O is slow compared to a "real" SATA SSD (sustained read 66MB/s, write 30MB/s) but I'm guessing that this would still be much quicker for the OS because of the negligible seek time.
Anyone here tried it?
It seems that you can get wireless LAN cards (no interest to me - it's on a Gig LAN) and also SSD cards, which are actually relatively cheap - around £23 for 16GB if you buy direct from HK.
It also seems that ~some~ Mini-PCIe slots support mSATA - but sadly I don't think mine does.
Does anyone have any experience of using Mini-PCIe for a small drive just for the OS system files, and a conventional HDD for everything else? It seems that the I/O is slow compared to a "real" SATA SSD (sustained read 66MB/s, write 30MB/s) but I'm guessing that this would still be much quicker for the OS because of the negligible seek time.
Anyone here tried it?
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