Inspiron 13 7370 upgrade from SATA to NVME?

Question

Hello, I have a Dell Inspiron 13 7370 that came with a 256gb m.2 SATA SSD and wanted to upgrade to the faster nvme m.2 SSD (a Samsung 970 evo). the device spec says that it supports PCIe 3 *4 so I assumed it supports nvme drives.  I created a recovery drive/os and clean installed the os on the new SSD. it installed fine. but its a hit and a miss, sometimes it boots fine its very very slow to boot and most of the times it fails to recognize the pcie ssd drive and tried running the support assistant on boot and leaves me with a blank black screen with a _ on the left top corner of the screen. tried playing with bios (uefi not legacy) disabled sata.2 and selected achi with not success. the bios is updated to the latest one (14th sept release). even when it the thing boots to windows the ssd is not up to full speed, getting about a max of 2200MB read in place of rated 3500MB/reads.  this is been very frustrating and dell should step in and help out. thanks

harshaone · Answer

yes, the Samsung&#xa0;magician software says it's on the latest firmware.&#xa0;

ejn63 · Answer

You'll never get full performance out of an NVMe drive on an Inspiron -- the drive runs in GT2 mode (power saving). You will only get full 4X performance (GT4) out of the newer XPS systems and Alienware/Precisions.

Try enabling the thorough boot -- see if that alleviates the problem of the drive hanging on powerup.

ejn63 · Answer

It may in fact not be Dell  - -but Samsung.  Their new drives often undergo a series of firmware updates to improve compatibility.  Does your drive have the latest Samsung firmware?

harshaone · Answer

I'm more concerned about getting the nvme ssd work more reliably than the speed.  The speeds are still good compared to the sata.  Thanks for the information :)

Zohaib7 · Answer

Hi    I am planning to upgrade my Inspiron 7370 13inch  from 256 Gb Micron to WD black 1TB Nvme. Any advice , perhaps I can learn from your experience?.   Thanks in advance   Zohaib

Molisch · Answer

Worked fine for me with ADATA SX8200 pro PCIe SSD. However, the transmission rate of this laptop is not the same as the transmission rate of my desktop computer with the same SSD. I think the design of the motherboard or other hardwares may limit the transmission rate.

HARI_G · Answer

Works with Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 250GB . 3518MB/s read and 2369MB/s Write.

MichalK · Answer

Wow, how have You achieved such a result ...?

My scores in Crystal Disk Mark 6 / Samsung Magician are around 1700-1800 MB/s... fresh Win10 install, empty (newly purchased) Samsung 970 Evo plus 500GB...

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