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XPS 8500, boot from M.2 NVMe using an M.2 to PCIe adapter board?
No M.2 slot but I can use an M.2 to PCIe adapter board.
Question is whether or not the bios will support booting from the M.2?
Bob
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No M.2 slot but I can use an M.2 to PCIe adapter board.
Question is whether or not the bios will support booting from the M.2?
Bob
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Techgee
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September 3rd, 2019 09:00
As I understand it the XPS 8500 only has PCIe x1 (single lane) slots, so you really can't put a x4 PCIe adapter card in there for a M.2 NVMe SSD, which needs 4 lanes.
Best bet is to use a 2.5" SATA SSD and make sure it's in the SATA III (6G) port, as I believe there's only one SATA III (6G) port, rest are slower SATA II (3G).
It also has a mSATA slot, I believe, but not sure if it's SATA III or SATA II. That might be another option.
JOcean
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September 2nd, 2019 15:00
Have a look at the following forum post as it may help.
https://www.dell.com/community/Desktops-General-Read-Only/Installing-Samsung-960-EVO-M-2-as-boot-drive-in-Dell-XPS-8900/td-p/5103794
speedstep
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September 3rd, 2019 09:00
No it cant ever.
WHChuang
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September 13th, 2020 16:00
I think this desktop PC came with a 32GB msata SSD which is being used as cache. If I'm replacing the original 7200rpm HDD with a SATA SSD (6.0g), should I still keep that 32GB msata as cache drive? Also if the price is similar between 1TB msata vs a 1TB SATA III (6G), which one would have better performance to use as the boot drive and for gaming and video editing? Thanks!
RoHe
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September 14th, 2020 11:00
https://www.dell.com/community/XPS-Desktops/XPS-8500-HDD-default-SATA-port/m-p/7693252/highlight/false#M53822