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[black_zion]

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I bought an Intel 660p 2TB drive to replace my two Samsung 850 Evo 1TB drives. It's meant to hold my media so it didn't have to be the highest performance of drives, and as we know the 660p is a great value, 2TB cost me $185. Anyway, got it in today, installed it, and noticed my WiFi card and sound card disappeared. There is an option in BIOS to run that PCIe slot at x1 speed and keep the other 3 slots, but alas with an NVMe drive, at least on this board (Crosshair VI Hero WiFi), that doesn't work, which is disappointing as 985MB/s (less overhead) exceeds what even an NVMe (especially more value oriented drives like the 660p) would need outside the server market.

[hardcoregames_]

My current WiFi card is based on the Intel 9260 and it has been rock solid. A company in China (Fenvi) sticks them on a PCIe card and sells them which is what I have. Windows 10 version 1903 recognizes it fine as does 1809.

I use the Intel 660p SSD and it also is rock solid. I use the Intel SSD toolkit to manage it as the 660p has some SLC cach to improve the performance.

Move media to a hard disk and use the SSD for programs and games.

Not sure about your motherboard but my MSI X470 has dual M.2 slots so I can clone a NVMe SSD when I desired for a capacity increase.

In the main slot my Intel 660p runs at about 2 GB/s or so for both read and write.