This nvme is installed on my z270 ultra gaming board works like a charm in raid mode or paired up with same drive on pcie card did find i could raid in 5 with paired too 1 256nvme and 2 2tb sata drive scored top 98 out of 1million other compared online reports what i like about it most is intel support and software too give it that extra boost dont be fooled this is a very fast and reliable nvme drive had it in my intel x299 platform as the boot drive