Exactly so. SATA is becoming history, an NVME is better deal.
NVMI or NVMe ? Adapters to PCIe are just straight wire to wire, contact to contact connection so they would work in any PCIe x4, x8 and x16 slot. It's just that with some older boards you can't boot from them. I have two such adapters, one with only one NVMe and another one with 2.
NVME, and I don't care about booting. Just that it works as a drive
Yeah, no problem, no electronics or conversion involved.
Even PCIe x16 slot on that MB is most probably just v1.0 or 2.0 which would make NVMe even slower, not much faster than SATA3. Modern PCIe is already up to v5.0, each version doubles the speed of previous one. v6.0 and v7.0 are already defined.That's a seriously old motherboard. (Most recent firmware from 2012.) I see that it has a PCI-E X16 slot for a graphics card, two PCI-E X1 slots. Plus a mostly useless PCI slot.
I suggest that you simply buy a nice 2.5" SATA SSD, and be done with it. Running an X4 NVME M.2 drive on an X1 slot via an adapter may work, but it'd be a sin.
That's just what you have. main PCIe x16 slot is v3.0 and shares lines with M.2 also up to v3.0
It is PCI version 2
Only main disk with OS and programs is important but even then difference between SATA SSD and fastest NVME is not all that visible in most cases.
The PCI slot I use with a tuner card and it runs WMC perfect. My Asus PS 110 Cinema using a vista 64 bit driver.That's a seriously old motherboard. (Most recent firmware from 2012.) I see that it has a PCI-E X16 slot for a graphics card, two PCI-E X1 slots. Plus a mostly useless PCI slot.
I suggest that you simply buy a nice 2.5" SATA SSD, and be done with it. Running an X4 NVME M.2 drive on an X1 slot via an adapter may work, but it'd be a sin.
Only main disk with OS and programs is important but even then difference between SATA SSD and fastest NVME is not allthat visible
Correct, maybe a faster bootup.
Here are some of speeds I was getting.
That's least affected, maybe a second or two, main difference is in opening large programs/games and programs that work with large cached data, like graphics programs like Adobe Paint shop which writes to and reads from disk a lot. Most of benefit from fast storage is that faster it is, less load on whole system while reading or writing. That's only visible in extreme cases like with slow2.5" HDDs and slower processors. My older HP laptop with dual core and such HDD used to practically stop doing everything while reading or writing to disk. it came alive with addition of SATA 2.5" SSD.
