The good news is, everything worked just right out of the box.
This NVMe SSD is based on the Phison E7 (PS5007-E7) controller, which is the same controller used on the Corsair Force MP500, Patriot Hellfire, PNY CS2030 and ZOTAC Sonix NVMe SSDs.Īdditionally, I replaced the on-board Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3160 (1?1 antenna arrangement, 433Mbps max) M.2 2230 WLAN card with an Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 (2?2 antenna arrangement, 867Mbps max) M.2 2230 WLAN card I had lying around from a laptop upgrade project. 480GB MyDigitalSSD BPX M.22 NVMe SSD, MDNVME8.I had originally planned on using two 256GB Intel 600p M.2 NVMe drives running in RAID0 (stripe) to host the operating system and applications, but it turns out the X99 chipset doesn't support NVMe RAID, so I went with:
I just upgraded my primary desktop system running Windows 10 to an ASRock X99 Taichi from an ASUS P9X79 PRO and wanted to share some feedback about the process, in case it's of use to anyone planning a similar configuration.
