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XPS 8900, M.2 SSD
Hello
I purchased 2 years ago this XPS 8900,
| Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz |
I'm looking to upgrade my hard drive (2TB) which is partitioned to a SSD. I read about SATA SSD, and M.2 SSD
On the Motherboard on the PC, i see a M.2 Slot as shown below. I read many contradictory stories about what can and can't be done.
Can anyone at DELL or elsewhere tell me if i can add a SSD drive to replace by C drive (boot) and if yes, what specs should i go with?
Does this only support M.2 Sata or MVME ?
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Posted August 7th, 2018 23:00
The M.2 slot on XPS 8900 is a 2280 m key slot and supports NVMe & PCIe x1 only. I just added a WD BLACK PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe SSD (512GB) on my XPS 8900 which I bought 2 years ago recently.
Also, you need to download the latest Win10 build which has NVMe driver bundled. Bootable media of older Windows 10 builds will not able to detect the NVMe SSD during installation unless you use a 3rd party NVMe driver.
You may download the Window Media Creation Tool to create a Windows 10 bootable USB flash drive that supports UEFI Secure Boot enabled.
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Posted August 14th, 2018 23:00
That sounds like a lot of hoops to jump through and I'm wondering if that NVME even works right on an X1 slot.
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Posted July 31st, 2018 15:00
I couldn't get a NVME to work with my newer XPS 8920 so good luck with that.