Workstation z800 m.2 SSD boot

[Sascha3]

Hallo habe mir kürzlich eine gebrauchte z800 gehollt und wollte fragen ob ich eine m.2 SSD als Boot Laufwerk nutzen kann auf dem Slot 7 wollte ein 10 pro N installieren darauf bloß sie lässt es nicht zu sagt immer das was im BIOS nicht aktiviert ist was soll ich aktiveren BIOS Version ist auf dem aktuellen Stand 2018

[MayS]

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Sascha3,

Query=  "Hello, I have recently purchased a used z800 and would like  to ask if I can use an M.2 SSD as a boot drive on Slot 7.  I wanted to install a 10 per N on it, but it doesn't indicate what is not activated in the BIOS. What should I activate? The BIOS version is up to date: 2018. "

Note: I do not understand the meaning of "10 pro N "  or in English "10 per N"

Reply: 

It is possible to use an M.2 SSD as a boot drive on an HP z800.  However,  the particular drive may be simple or difficult to make it to work.

There are 1097, z800 systems tested on Passmark Performance Test.  The best performance, the highest marks for an M.2 in the z800 is the Samsung 970 EVO 500GB NVMe.  The Passmark Disk Score for that for that drive is 13537.  That is a very good score. But, the installation will be complicated as the memory on that drive is NVMe.  A special BIOS module must be added that installs on boot up to run it. 

However, it is possible to use a Samsung SM951 M.2 256GB AHCI or 512GB AHCI with no modification = einfach.    In Passmark a z800 using a Samsung SM951 M.2 512GB AHCI  has a Disk mark of 12602.

The two HP workstation in the is office both use Samsung M.2 AHCI drives as the boot drives:

HP z620_2 (2017) (R9) > Xeon E5-1650 v2 (6C@ 4.6GHz) / z420 Liquid Cooling / 64GB (HP/Samsung 8X 8GB DDR3-1866 ECC registered) /GTX 1070 Ti 8GB / Samsung SM951 M.2 512GB AHCI + Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe 500GB + HP/HGST Enterprise 6TB / Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 sound interface + 2X Mackie MR824 / 825W PSU / Windows 7 Prof.’l 64-bit (HP OEM) > 2X Dell Ultrasharp U2715H (2560 X 1440)
[ Passmark Rating = 6412 / CPU rating = 16283 / 2D = 846 / 3D= 13735 / Mem = 3107 / Disk = 14614 / Single Thread Mark = 2550 [7.3.21]

Note: The Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe 500GB is used only for data; not as a boot drive.

HP z420_3: (2015) (R12) Xeon E5-1650 v2 (6C@ 4.6GHz) / z420 Liquid cooling / 64GB (HP/Samsung 8X 8GB DDR3-1866 ECC registered) / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/ Samsung SM951 M.2 256GB AHCI + Samsung 860 EVO 500GB + HGST 7K6000 4TB / ASUS Essence STX + Logitech z2300 2.1 / 600W PSU > Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (HP OEM ) > Samsung 40" 4K
[Passmark System Rating: = 6186 / CPU = 15845 / 2D = 819 / 3D = 11216 / Mem = 3047 Disk = 13905 /Single Thread Mark = 2525 [7.3.21]

The HP z800 is PCIe Generation 2.0. For full performance PCIe 3.0 is necessary, but the Disk marks above are very good. As for the proper slot chose x4 or more.  I recommend the Lycom DT-120 PCIe to M.2 adapter card.

z800 Slots:

2 PCIe x16 Gen2 , 2 PCIe x8 Gen2, 1 PCIe x4 Gen2, 1 PCIe x4 Gen1, 1 PCISlot  

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