Fastest storage options for X79 motherboard?

I have an Asus X79 Deluxe motherboard with no plans to upgrade in the next two-ish years. I do, however, need more storage space and I'd like to future proof myself here a bit. I've been researching my options and it looks like NVME PCI-E drives are not compatible with X79 architecture motherboards. Is my best option just a SATA SSD and it's ~550MB/s transfer speed? I was really hoping I could get an Intel 750.

I had a 9260 raid card on my x79 system with 4 x 256GB SSD drives in Raid 0. Gave me enough SSD space and good speeds. Not sure about future proofing though with this setup but at-least you will get NVME type speeds. Of course I'm sure some will ask why you need more then standard SSD speeds, etc. and suggest just getting a standard drive and in 2 years buy what the current tech is.

NVMe drives are compatible with X79. You may have to modify your UEFI to add a driver for boot support, but that's fairly easy. Plenty of people using the Intel 750s on that platform.

The latest BIOS for the ASUS x79 Deluxe does support NVMe. It is not in the release notes, but there is an option in the BIOS for it.

Apologies for resurrecting an old thread but after hours of searching for information, then making the investment and learning some things, I figured it's better to have a record somewhere.

I was able to install the 4805 BIOS off Asus' website (stock BIOS), purchase a Samsung 960 Pro and the Silverstone ECM21 M2 --> PCIe x4 card and was able to get Windows 10 to install cleanly with no issues, no custom BIOS or other challenges. CrystalDiskMark shows 3.5GB/s reads and things are running fast and smooth. If you're using the X79-Deluxe, it's possible to make the leap to M2 fast storage with no major hurdles to jump over.

3.5MB DEUMMM! slow down there!

Fixed, thx

Wow, thanks for following up! I still haven't made the leap to faster storage yet but this might rekindle my interest knowing it's fully supported!

I have an ASRock 2011 server board for some dual xeons. No official BIOS supports booting from NVMe M.2 drives, but when I asked their support line they e-mailed me a custom BIOS that apparently does the trick.

Ya never know.