HP PCIE NVME DUAL M.2 SSD ADAPTER for Z8 (933576-001) - Anyone got a manual or instruction?

[MacWinGuy]

Hey community,

I sure hope that the knowledge I’m searching for is here.

I’ve been looking all over for the manual and finally I thought that a HP community must be the right place to ask for it.

A post about Thunderbolt in this community forum made my TB installation easy since I found the correct bios settings was in a post. Which was great to find. Anyway, it gives me hope that someone has the knowledge I’m looking for. 

I’ve acquired this pcie card that is to be inserted in one of the two special pcie slots on the top of the z8 g4 motherboard. 
The card is a “new” (unopened) HP card, but lacked the manual or instructions. 
For instance there is some jumpers on the card that would be nice to know what they’re for.

Ikve tried to use a no-name nvme card but it must have been a crappy nvme-card since I got Pcie errors recorded by bios as well as hung or restarted system. That’s why I acquired this card.

- I sure would like to get the speed and performance of nvme drives to get my Workstation “snappy”.  

2,5 SSD are okay, but I sure would like to get the nvme speed for video rendering and more. 

I hope someone can help me out here. I’m new in this forum but have used computers since the mid 80s. 

My system currently has 2 Xeon Gold 20-cores, 192 GB ECC, HP Thunderbolt 3 card, WiFi and BT card, GPU AMD 6950XT and a couple of 2,5 m.2. 

Looking forward for some good news on finding a manual. 

Thanks!

[MacWinGuy · Accepted solution]

Okay… No answers?

Anyway, I got the PCIE memory card running with No errors. 
Bye

[SDH]

Sorry we missed your first post... I finally found my recent post on the Z Turbo Drive Dual Pro and this is well worth looking at. There are 2 versions of this now, the v1 original and the v2 released July last year. Both excellent. Some very good deals brand new on eBay if you search by part numbers... HP is clearing out unopened v1 versions. The v2 is rated to work with PCIe gen4 and gen5, but I have used some gen4 NVMe sticks in the v1 just fine here. The v2 also works great with PCIe gen3 HP workstations like the Zx40 and the Zx G4 families.

I go into the jumpers, BIOS settings (related to "bifurcation"), and include the manuals in the post HERE .

I got your PM, thanks. The documentation on these is not great but it is now all in that post.

[MacWinGuy]

OMG! 😳

SDH…. Simply put: you’re amazing. 
I searched everywhere with no luck. And here you come with the instructions for both of the “turbo cards”. 
Amazing! Thanks!!!

The v2 is similar to the model for z8 (no bracket). 

And thanks for the tip of buying. I actually managed to get hold of a seller close by in Germany that sold me a card that was “new” or unopened and apparently a bulk version for repair shops. Amazing quality compared to the ugly used ones from chinese sellers on eBay (those card seemed to be oily and taken from a dump - which probably ain’t far from the truth). 

I thought that I’d try out the nvme card before I get another nvme card before they are gone. 

Anyway, BIG THANKS to you and I can’t give you credit you enough for your insight of the turbo cards. I will for sure lookup your earlier comments as well. 

Many many Kudos to you!!! 

[SDH]

Happy to help. Functionally so far, I see zero difference between the v1 and v2 ZTD Dual Pro cards. The v2 gets you better placement of the drive activity cable 2-pin headers so there is less crowding in the upper corner where the drive ID assignment 3-pin headers are. It also gets you more cooling capacity, but my v1 original Dual Pro cards have never hit their cooling capacity limits yet. I did grab a few brand new spare v1s off eBay... under 50.00 USD each total. We don't do long full speed runs of drive activity in our line of work, however.

Both the v1 and v2 ZTD DP cards can have either a rear metal backplane plate or the two black Z8 locking levers on top. I have some spare Samsung 980 Pro-with-heatsink-attached NVMe M.2 sticks (those are PCIe gen4 with x4 electrical lanes) and I've been using two of those on one ZTD DP card without use of the card's big heatsink... just running them attached exposed on the card each with its own heatsink works just as well, with no thermal throttling.

Much credit goes to DGroves for helping me figure out a good number of the details... I just had some spare time to put them together in one place. Knowing him he probably has a few in RAID configurations already... Intel VROC RAID specifically.