Laptop with Optane 16 GB installed & when I run software it shows 1 channel in use and one open

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi, Steve:

I don't understand your question.

All M.2 NVMe drives are solid state, as are M.2 SATA drives.

I think the Samsung 980 NVMe SSD is the way to go.

It is newer and cheaper than the Samsung 970.

[SEarle56]

Sounds like a plan and 32 GB of Memory seems solid as a part of it as the 4GB currently runs out of memory and locks up or worse so something needs to happen

You are right all drives are solid state but some show differently as far as being  SSD versus NVME but I am sure that one way or another that is the direction I am going

Cheers

Steve

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Please post back and let us know how your memory and NVMe SSD upgrade project went.

Before buying the 32 GB memory kit, run this command and make sure your notebook will support 32 GB.

Windows users can determine the maximum RAM capacity in the Command prompt with the command below. It gives the final value in kilobytes which can be converted to gigabytes (divide the value by 1048576 to convert KB to GB).

Run the Command prompt app as administrator.  Then run the following command.  You can copy and paste the line from here.

wmic memphysical get MaxCapacity, MemoryDevices

I know that the 15-da0xxx models with the Intel 8th gen core processors can run 32 GB of memory.

Not 100% sure about the ones with the Intel 7th gen core processors, such as yours.

[SEarle56]

Came back with 2 memory devices and total was 33,554,432 which sounds like 32 MB to me, do you concur?

Steve

[SEarle56]

GB I meant

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi, Steve:

According to that report, you're good to go with 32 GB of memory.

 33,554,432 KB divided by 1,048,576 KB = 32 GB

[SEarle56]

Excellent I will proceed on my update and keep you informed on my progress so you may share it with others.  I thank you for your help as I have agonized a bit on the right pieces but after the original HDD died shortly after the warranty period and I used an SSD drive in it's place that worked I know that much of the manual are outdated or marketing driven.  I worked for HP years ago in the storage division and on Global projects primarily in that space but others as well.

And let us not go into the issues I have with my HP LaserJet Pro MFP M146fdw that has gone into a 59.C0 state after only 475 pages.  2 products from HP which I trusted and now I am working on 1 and the other (printer) is impossible to get serviced locally and I of course did not buy the extended warranty which is whole unit swap and too late now.  I posted on Amazon where I bought it to warn others if you plan on using this device longer than 1 year do yourself a favor and get the damned warranty or you have a plastic boat anchor when it fails and looking into it other printers have the same issues

Cheers

Steve

[SEarle56]

Oooops my printer is a LaserJet Pro MFP M148fdw just for the record

But still doing a great impersonation of a boat anchor!

That is all

Steve

[SEarle56]

Quick question the Optane is a B & M key device while others are single key will there be an issue after I de-install the Optane and getting the new device to work in the current connector?

I have this drive currently installed in a desktop in an an adapter board using a PCI slot and it runs well but bios seems to not allow it as a boot device (Lenovo Ideacentre 310) only as a fast additional storage

addlink M.2 SSD 1TB S70 up to 3,400MB/s NVMe PCIe GEN 3x4 3D TLC NAND R/W up to 3,400/3,000 MB/s M.2 2280 Internal Solid State Drive

It seems to fit the bill as far as devices you have mentioned and the durability of it is higher than others in the same class (TBW) expected life cycle.

I looked into the Samsung device and your advice is very sound and being that I have the Intel chipset in my laptop I can potentially use the Samsung Magician software if I use the Samsung 980 device instead to boost overall throughput .  Sorry for the stream of questions but I enjoy getting all I can from my devices and I have a Samsung 500GB SATA SSD 2.5" replacement/addition I can put in place of the current 240 GB drive mentioned before

Ideal Config is the Samsung 980 NVME as the Optane replacement and boot device and additional storage using the Samsung SATA 2.5" in place of the current smaller drive.  32GB of Memory and migrate the O/S from current device to 980, with Optane disconnected prior to movement per procedure and then boot from 980 and attempt added boost from Magician software all done in steps using the KISS (Keep It Simple Steve) mode.  Not sure is I can use the 16GB with PCIE adapter for anything in the desktop like caching as I intend to if possible attempt a similar move on that device but NYP (not your problem) as it is not an HP system and AMD chipset

Clear as mud?

Cheers

Steve

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi, Steve:

Yes, that NVMe SSD should work just fine.

I don't know why the Optane memory, which is NVMe, have the two notches cut into them like a M.2 SATA drive does.

Sounds like your plan is a sound one.

Just a reminder that if there is an OS on the 2.5" drive, the notebook will always want to boot from that drive first, and not the M.2 SSD.