there are a few ways to get an NVMe drive in your system. M.2 PCIe based drive. you can also buy a PCIe card to mount one as well as a PCIe card that is integrated. There is also a U.2 which was aimed more towards Server architecture. a x1 slot has a single direction BW of 2.5 Gbps/200MBps and x4 slot can move 1 Gbps/800MBps so most NVMe based m.2 drives are wired to 2 or 4 lanes. In your case a 4x PCIe slot would be a great deal of performance even over the normal SATA bandwidth. the PCIe cards do have a fair amount of cost added to them. On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 2:30 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2018 13:57:29 -0700 > Brian Cluff wrote: > > > For me, I would get a system that can use a NVMe. They are about the > > same price as an SSD, but make and SSD look extremely slow. > > This is the first I've heard of NVMe. I just read > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVM_Express , and now have some questions: > > 1) Can I replace the spinning platter 2.5" hard disk in my 5 year old > laptop with an NVMe device? My research tells me an NVMe must plug > into a PCIe slot rather than a SATA slot. > > 2) Do you fstrim NVMe-hosted partitions the same way you do for SSD? > > 3) When you install an NVMe card in a PCIe slot, what device name shows > up? Is it sd-whatever, or something else? > > 4) If my desktop has a free PCIe slot, does that mean I can plug in an > NVIe drive and use it? > > Thanks, > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > June 2018 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting > http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen