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XPS 8910 SE, Samsung 970 EVO Plus, compatibility?
Hello,
My XPS 8910 SE has a 256 SK Hynix SSD (550 MB/s read speed). I am interested in upgrading to a Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSD (3500 MB/s read speed). Does my motherboard support it? Sorry I am a novice.
Also, would upgrading the SSD read speed increase the speed for software program? I use Thinkorswim, a trading program and it slows down when a lot of data is being loaded, and Thinkorswim tech support says it not memory or graphic card related. So I am thinking perhaps it is the SSD speed.
Thank you.
dperry112
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June 12th, 2019 16:00
I have a Samsung 960 Pro working fine on my XPS 8910. SSD's shorten the time to load programs but do not speed execution--that depends on the CPU.
Vic384
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June 12th, 2019 17:00
The speed increase is not that much according to this article: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/292522-sata-nvme-ssd-upgrade
jianc
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June 13th, 2019 18:00
Thanks for the reply. Would the Samsung evo M key work for the 8910SE motherboard? The current SSD has a B key I believe.
speedstep
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June 14th, 2019 05:00
B keyed units are SATA
M keyed only is PCI-E
the Driver required to SEE the drive is not installed when you change from SATA to PCI-E
Intel RST SATA F6 mass storage drivers from v14.8 up do are required for Optane and NVMe
https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/memory-and-storage/enthusiast-ssds/PCIe-NVMe-SSD-Install-Boot-Guide.pdf
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/28808/Intel-Solid-State-Drive-Toolbox?product=99745
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/28650/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-User-Interface-and-Driver?product=99745