Z Turbo Drive Stickers ( should be removed?)

[Sobhan-EM]

Dear HP community,

I bought a HP Z turbo Drive Dual pro on ebay ( seller wrote in description as 4YF59AA).

I have three questions, and I tried hard to find a reliable answer, but was a little bit unsuccessful. Here are my questions:

1.  In upper side ( where ssd sits) there are two pads, ( but there were no pads in Internet manual) so I don't know if they are heat conduction pads and should stay there or I should remove them.

 2. On the backside of the board, there is another sticker, which is like manual, should I remove that for better heat transfer or should stays there for protection of [like golden parts of] board

 3. There is manual from HP which differentiates between serials like YF63AA and 4YF59AA ( which I bought). I found this after my purchase.

Now I have 1 single SSD with the size of 2 TB, but maybe I would in future install another 2 TB. ( on the other M2 lane of this adapter). My questions is whther this an appropriate product for that is, or 4YF59AA doesn't support 2 * 2 TB or at least 1* 2TB?

Thank you in advance for your answer.

Best regards

Sobhan

[resistencia · Accepted solution]

Hi @Sobhan-EM 

1) Leave the pads in place. Their main function is to prevent the NVMe drive from coming into contact with the board when using heat sinks, but if you are careful, you can remove them. 

2) It has no other function than to indicate how the discs are placed; you can leave it or remove it.

3) It is designed to support 2 TB per slot (2x2TB).

more info:

PCIe Solid State Drives for HP Workstations

[Sobhan-EM]

Dear Resistencia,

thanks alot for your quick response and help.

Wish you best 👌 

Regards

Sobha 

[resistencia]

You're welcome, happy to help.

[SDH]

To the OP: Resistencia gives you good advice. I'd leave the back "manual" sticker on. Do remove the thin plastic sheets off of the thermal pads. Put your best fastest M.2 stick in the "primary" upper M.2 socket. You don't need to have a second M.2 stick inserted in the lower socket to use the Dual Pro. Gentle snug on the M.2 hold down screw device... you can strip the tiny threads if you overtighten. Don't lose those hold downs... they are very hard to find when dropped, and hard to buy on eBay if you lose one.

I've written up a few posts on the excellent HP Z Turbo Drive Dual Pro you have. Yours is a version 1 and there also is a version 2, discussed HERE . I like that better than the v2 ones we also have, and it is just as fast.

Your purchase via eBay likely got you one without a manual. The manuals are a bit sparse in details, but I have posted them as attached PDFs in the past here. One missing detail is the proper BIOS settings to use. Those cards are x8 form factor. Each M.2 stick needs only x4 electrical lanes for full function. Thus, to run two M.2 sticks in a ZTD Dual Pro you need to have a computer that has the BIOS ability to "bifurcate" the x8 slot into two x4 sets of electrical lanes. All HP workstations from the ZX40 series forwards can do that. Many if not all HP business class PCs cannot.

Post back if you need more help, and welcome to the forum.

[Sobhan-EM]

Dear SDH,

thanks for your response. Sorry for my late answer. I have a Z8 G4, so it supports bifurcation. I was aware that HP doesn't need BIOS change for its own M2 Adapter, thus I bought its own product. Still thanks a lot for remembering.  

P.S. I bought my Z8 G4 tower case, motherboard and 1700 W power as second hand in ebay and afterwards I read alot for suitable parts, and build up the whole and tried to use its magnificent possibilities. Now it has:

Double Xeon platinum 8168 in total 48 cores, 96 threads, 2.7 GHz - 3.7 GHz

384 GB 2Rx4 2666 MHz DDR4 SDRAM ECC RDIMM, 

Nvidia P6000 Graphic card, 24 GB VRAM

Best regards

Sobhan