What is the SSD gen support for the sunflower motherboard?

[AngelSGG]

I am tired of a slow HDD so, how about getting one of the most powerful SSDs on the market? I want to buy the WD Black SN850, but I don't know if it is compatible with the sunflower mother board in my HP Pavilion 690bla. Help Please.

[Bill_To · Accepted solution]

Hello

The WD Black SN850 should be compatible as the motherboard has the required NVME socket. Your MB has an NVME PCIE 3.0 interface.

The WD drive is a NVME Gen 4 socket interface. This means the SSD will not run at the maximum data transfer rate but will be Gen 3 compatible. Gen 3 specs are very good, much faster than a platter HDD.

You will have to migrate the operating system to the new storage device unless you are backing up data and installing a clean operating system image on the new storage device.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi, @AngelSGG 

Also note that in that model motherboard the PCIe Gen 3 SSD will run at half its advertised read/write speeds due to the M.2 slot being PCIe 3 x 2 and not 3 x 4.

See the next to the last post on this discussion...

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