HP Elite 8300 SSD Upgrade Question

Richdem · ‎12-29-2018

Hi There,

I recently picked up an Elite 8300 (i7 3770) I have installed a GT1030 GPU and a Samsung Evo 512 GB SSD. I connected the SATA cable to the light blue connection on the motherboard cloned my WD Blue 1TB drive that had Windows 10 on it and changed the boot order in the BIOS to boot from the new SSD.

Everything works and I can boot into Windows but it just doesn't seem that fast, I also have a gaming PC with an i5 3570K with an SSD as my boot drive and it is considerably faster booting.

Is there anything I may have missed in the BIOS settings?

Regards

Richard

wb2001 · ‎12-31-2018

@Richdem,

Only connect a boot device to port 0 or port 1. The other ports are 3GB SATA300 ports.

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Richdem · ‎12-31-2018

@wb2001 wrote:
@Richdem,
Only connect a boot device to port 0 or port 1. The other ports are 3GB SATA300 ports.

Hi there,

Thanks for the reply. I have the original drive connected to SATA0 and the SSD to SATA1. According to the service manual they are both SATA 3.0 ports. The SSD is set as the bit drive in the bios .It there any point switching the cables over so the SSD is on SATA0?

wb2001 · ‎12-31-2018

@Richdem,

Regardless of assigned ports, the BIOS always starts at Port 0 first, then advances to the next port and so on.

I believe you mentioned comparison with another computer. That is always fraught with contradictions.

You might want to look at the differences in the SSD read / write, RAM speed, and CPU speed.

An SSD will suffer speed issues when it's capacity is challenged, or when a re-write of data is done. You can read the process of Reads, Writes, and Erasure here. What size HD was the original, and what size is the SSD ? How much of the SSD is "free space". Although I build with Samsung EVO 860's (500 GB), I keep it at less than 50% (210 used, 253 free).

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Richdem · ‎12-31-2018

@wb2001 wrote:
@Richdem,
Regardless of assigned ports, the BIOS always starts at Port 0 first, then advances to the next port and so on.
I believe you mentioned comparison with another computer. That is always fraught with contradictions.
You might want to look at the differences in the SSD read / write, RAM speed, and CPU speed.

An SSD will suffer speed issues when it's capacity is challenged, or when a re-write of data is done. You can read the process of Reads, Writes, and Erasure here. What size HD was the original, and what size is the SSD ? How much of the SSD is "free space". Although I build with Samsung EVO 860's (500 GB), I keep it at less than 50% (210 used, 253 free).

Thank you once again,

You are correct about comparing 2 different PC's. My gaminig PC is an i5-3570K (similar vintage) it is however overclocked.

The drive currently owner has around 40GB on it so plenty of free space

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