M.2 NMVe SSD in PCIE X16 slot on h8-1520t

[JoeR13]

Does anyone know if installing an M.2 NMVe SSD drive into a compatible PCIE X16 slot adapter in the h8-1520t desktop will:

1. Actually work and be recognized by the BIOS and operating system as additional storage?

2. Be able to be configured as the boot drive in the BIOS and be seen by Windows 10 x64?

Proposed products to be used:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07KGMBCKD/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_2?smid=A29Y8OP2GPR7PE&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FFS22DV/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_1?smid=A3JG90J1GP6HGX&psc=1

The goal is to use something much faster as the boot drive and keep a larger slower drive for extra storage. Am considering SATA SSD as well but would prefer M.2 NMVe SSD if possible. The plan is to reinstall Windows 10 x64 from scratch. Will migrate any data to other storage.

[banhien]

@JoeR13 

Its specs says it has

• PCI Express x16 (Gen 3.0 for i5 and i7 Ivy Bridge processors, all others Gen 2.0): 1
• PCI Express x1 (Gen 2.0): 3
• PCI Express x1 Mini Card: 1

Source: https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03650829#AbT0

Looks like it is a CTO machine. Does your machine have wireless and video card ?  If you have BOTH that means you only have 3 PCIe x1 slots and they are not suitable for NVMe SSD card.

The PCI Express x16 (Gen 3.0 for i5 and i7 Ivy Bridge processors, all others Gen 2.0): is suitable for a video card, only free when no video card installed. The following link gives you Step by step prep for Windows 10 boot from NVMe:

    https://tinkertry.com/how-to-boot-win10-from-samsung-950-pro-nvme-on-superserver

Hope this helps.

Regards.

[JoeR13]

Thank you Banhien, This was very helpful! I'm using integrated video, so the PCI Express x16 (Gen 3.0 for i5 and i7 Ivy Bridge processors, all others Gen 2.0) slot is empty. Is this only usable for a video card or can a PCIE 3.0 X16 Adapter be used to install the M.2 NMVe SSD drive into that slot?

I'm not sure about the BIOS compatibility so the system can boot from NMVe, but here is the information:

Board: PEGATRON CORPORATION 2AD5 1.03
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
UEFI: AMI 8.21 10/20/2014

This appears to be the latest BIOS available from the HP website for this desktop. I haven't purchased or installed this hardware yet so I'm not sure if the BIOS would even see it even if installed. I'm not seeing BIOS settings for NMVe today, but not sure if that will change once hardware is installed That's the reason for posting this question in the first place 🙂 I want to see if I can breathe some new life into this system and maxing out the memory and installing the fastest HD possible would be the easiest way to go.