Hello everyone,
Searching for Boot or Install "Linux on M2 SSD USB Enclosure" gives me everything but what I need, most of it NVMe related, or plain USB stick related.
First, the hardware is:
Team Group MS30 M.2 2280 128GB SATA III TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
DGZOMYTEK M.2 SATA SSD to USB 3.0 External SSD Enclosure with UASP
The USB 3.0 enclosure uses a JMicron JMS567, a low power consumption and high performance USB 3.0 to SATA 6.0Gbps (bit
per second) Bridge controller, so I assume it may act like a standard USB stick?
A tip here for Z77 E4 owners.
The motherboard is a seven year old ASrock Z77 Extreme4 which does have UEFI etc.
I'm using a beta BIOS that allows booting to NVMe device in a PCIe slot mounted adapter. I have no M2 slots on the board.
It works great at 3300 MB/s write and 1800 MB/s read. If you have this board the BIOS is available from the ASrock site.
I tried a plain install in ACHI mode (Non-UEFI), with /, and /swap, and /home, but the boot loader installer didn't have that drive as an option.
Then I booted from Mageia 7 x64 DVD in UEFI mode and I don't know how big the UEFI partition needs to be etc.
Also, I assume it's possible to install it like a normal install, not in live mode.
After two days of searching, I haven't found anything that directly applies to this type of USB device.
I could probably find this information in time, somewhere, but I thought I'd ask here so everyone can see it.
The SSD was $20 and the enclosure was $10. Speed tests are good at 453 read & 414 write.
I'm not going to try and get exact top speed, I just wanted to know if it appeared to be working correctly and it does.
I was hoping for great speed, endurance and durability, at a lower cost than a 128GB USB stick.
My questions are how do I install M7 in a normal Non-live mode?
Also, how do I install M7 to run in Live mode? Is that the same as with a standard USB flash drive using a Live DVD?
I really wanted to use the standard M7 DVD for a standard install and a live install, and not a Live version DVD.
But if that's what i have to do, then I will.
Thank you.