I have purchased an MVII Ranger for my son. It will have an i5DC and Pure Rock Cooler within an Aerocool Red/Black case and *gb of Red hyperx Memory...but I really need some advice on the boot SSD, as I am stressed over options!!!

To take advantage of this great MOBO I want to go for an M.2 PCIe SSD, however, I understand the M.2 slot is only at x2 , whereas the PCIe black slot is at x4. The issue is have is the very very limited number of SSD's around. I could get a Plextor M6e x2 2280 SSD, but its green and looks rubbish on the VII board. I could get the M6e Black edition, but its only x2 but uses the x4 slot on a PCIe adaptor, and is still only the old x2 M6e with a new dress. I could get a Kingston Predator, looks great in Black/Gold and is PCie x4 (20GB/s bandwidth!!!!!!!), but does not use the M.2 slot,it uses the x4 PCie black slot. I could get the Kingston predator in an M.2 2280 form factor without the Adaptor, would look good but I believe this would then be throttled from its native x4 down to the x2 that the MVII can cope with and would not be vfm running a 20GB/s SSD at 10GB/s slot.

1) What should I do!!! 2) Are there any good looking (Black) M.2 2280 form factor PCie x2 drives out there? 3) If I use the PCIex4 slot will this prevent other upgrades as it disables all the PCIex1 slots and the M.2?

I find it irritating that Asus bring out a great ROG Z97 MOBO, with the new M.2 slot, only to find its obsolete already as there are no decent looking x2 SSD's and with Kingston offering the Predator at x4 and Plextor soon to offer the M7e at x4, I suspect 10Gb/s SSD's are dead in the water.
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