Inspiron 3670, are any M.2 NVME SSD's compatible?

 aaronwt:

Did you experience any BSODs after installing the Mushkin drives?  

The reason I am asking is because I have the same drive in a 3670  and am getting  an infrequent 12b bugcheck (a memory error).  I've run memtest86 for many hours so at this point am inclined to think the hardware is OK but some driver is responsible for the BSOD.  

I never got a straight answer on if the m.2 drive will work without putting the screw in to make it flat and if not, why not?

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@546insp wrote:

I never got a straight answer on if the m.2 drive will work without putting the screw in to make it flat and if not, why not?

 

i used the standoff screw that came installed on the MB to temporarily use with my NVMe drives. until I could get the proper sized screw. With the standoff screw on the MB used to keep the NVMe drive in place, it's angled down. But it worked fine for the few days I used it. Then once I got the correct screw the NVMe drive is level when **bleep** into the standoff.

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@aaronwt wrote:

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@546insp wrote:

I never got a straight answer on if the m.2 drive will work without putting the screw in to make it flat and if not, why not?

 

i used the standoff screw that came installed on the MB to temporarily use with my NVMe drives. until I could get the proper sized screw. With the standoff screw on the MB used to keep the NVMe drive in place, it's angled down. But it worked fine for the few days I used it. Then once I got the correct screw the NVMe drive is level when **bleep** into the standoff.

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So do you think it would have worked with the m.2 drive just plugged in (at 30*) without it skrewed down? I never can get an answer on this.

(can't say scruwed in here or they will bleep it)..lol

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@aaronwt wrote:
I would not have wanted to try it that way. The NVMe might have moved around when the PC was moved.

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That's not the problem, it was snugly in place and nothing was moving around. Nobody seems to know if the NVME M.2 will work if just plugged in and not skrewed down, they just guess at what it could be. I really want the real answer because I sent it back due to not having the skrew and not working.

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@546insp wrote:

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@aaronwt wrote:
I would not have wanted to try it that way. The NVMe might have moved around when the PC was moved.

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That's not the problem, it was snugly in place and nothing was moving around. Nobody seems to know if the NVME M.2 will work if just plugged in and not skrewed down, they just guess at what it could be. I really want the real answer because I sent it back due to not having the skrew and not working.

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Why would you send it back for that reason? The screw is only a few dollars. I ordered the M.2 screws from Amazon that went into the included standoff. They were only around $4 each(a pack of two for $7.95).

My NVMe cards were not snugly in place without being held down. It would have been flopping up and down as the PC moved. It is not designed to be used that way. Even if it works like that it would just be asking for trouble as it works it's way loose.

I was still waiting for my $2 screw when I returned the drive but the drive was snuggly plugged in and wasn't going anywhere but it wasn't working. I still don't have a straight answer if it was the lack of the screw that foiled my attempt or not.

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@546insp wrote:

I still don't have a straight answer if it was the lack of the screw that foiled my attempt or not.

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We will never know because:
a. You sent it back before screwing it down properly
b. No one else is going to risk damaging their M.2/NVMe-SSD or motherboard to find out.

But we have chatted about this before ... like ram-memory DIMMs ... the M.2 device must be s-c-r-e-w-e-d down for all the pins to engage.

So I guess I jumped the gun by sending it back but I wonder if the xps 8920 would have unleashed all of the NVME"s speed. I went with a 2.5" ssd which works fine but with all the controversy surrounding the speedy M.2's I will wait to get one when I buy my next computer 3 years from now. I know I'm in the Inspiron section but I was thinking about getting one as a back-up computer.

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@ProximaC wrote:

1. but that may be a signal ground, and the ground that ties the screw to ground may be chassis ground.

2. Bottom line, I think it's a bad idea to try and run it without the card properly mounted,

3. the ground is there for a reason.

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1. They are usually the same thing on a computer.

2. Obviously. For one, all the pins don't engage fully (on both sides) until it's fully installed with the screw.

3. Exactly true.

So I guess I should have waited until the screw arrived before assuming I didn't need it for the m.2 to work and sent it back....…….that's what I get for assuming.  :smileysad:

Do you know if you can you have a NVMe SSD drive and Optame memory? It sounds like the SSD goes in that slot, but I seem to remember seeing configs in Dell outlet with a 1TB drive, 128gb NVMe and the 16gb Optame memory. .

Optane or SSD you do not get both at the same time.

I bought a silcon power 1 tb m2 ssd and its not showing in the bios. Did any of you have this problem got standoff and screw.