upgrade drive will it work

[brickwizard1951]

I have a  HP ProDesk 400 G2.5 SFF, [PCIe2]  I have recently acquired a PCIe3. 16 to NVMe adaptor and a NVMe 3 drive,

will this be A Fesable/Beneficial upgrade

If so will it need additional cooling or is the case system good enough

Any idea  what my read/write speed gains may be?

Thanks

[NonSequitur777]

@brickwizard1951,

Welcome to our HP User Forum!

Yea, been there, done that, so to speak. I installed an M.2 NVMe SSD using a PCIe to M.2 adapter in an HP Elite 8300 SFF, see: https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/Upgrading-HP-Elite-8300-SFF/m-p..., but BIOS never saw it. It did work fine as a fast data disk, but I wanted the M.2 drive to be the primary (boot) drive, which didn't pan out.

As a secondary data drive, the Silicon Power 512GB NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 2280 SSD (p/n: SP512GBP34A60M28) read/write performance was pretty good:

Also, I did not see any HP ProDesk 400 G2.5 SFF Users in UserBenchMark with an M.2 drive either: https://www.userbenchmark.com/System/HP-ProDesk-400-G25-SFF/24258.

Hope this was helpful.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[brickwizard1951 · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the info, I assume you were using Microsoft, I am a Linux user, so I will give it a try, if it doesn't work, I will put it in my granddaughters machine and look for a SATA3 SSD it's got to  be better than the original disc spinner

[NonSequitur777]

@brickwizard1951,

Yes indeed, see the read/write performance of the Samsung 870 QVO 1TB SSD in my previous message.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[brickwizard1951]

 my friend, I had the same problem as you, not being able to boot from the PCI/NVMe, after a bit of research it turned out the drive was clean, for it to be recognised as a boot device it needs a UEFI boot partition, all the normal searches were for windows, I haven't used windows in over 20 yrs [I am a Linux man] so this is what I did,

I chose my distribution [Mint LMDE 5,cinnamon ] which I downloaded and burnt to a pen-drive, put the pen-drive in the machine  switched on tickling F9, in the boot options were 2 entries for the Pen-drive one under UEFI and one under Legacy, T chose UEFI and installed the OS, and whala!  There it is,  speed wise as my pro=desk is only PCI 2 i don't get full speed, but it is now just over 6x faster 36.5 gbs against the SATA disc spinner at  6gbs

so if you're upgrading using Windows, make sure it installs a UEFI boot partition

Many thanks

Brickwizard