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April 21st, 2017 10:00
Is Samsung 960 EVO MZ-V6E250BW - PCI Express 3.0 x4 (NVMe) M.2 SSD compatible with XPS 27 7760?
I've got a standard 2 TB hard drive. I'd like to add and install a Samsung 960 EVO and make it the boot drive.
Not super familiar with these new format SSDs, but I noticed some of the m.2 drives have three plugin tabs (small one on each side an larger in the middle) while the Samsung 960 EVO and some of the others have one small tab and one larger one. Not sure if this is just the NVMe format, but I'm hoping I can use this super fast drive in my new XPS 27 7760.
If it will work, any advice on making the EVO the bootable drive? I've seen some comments with concerns that the NVMe format won't work as the bootable drive if the BIOS doesn't support it.
Thanks,
Tom
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ejn63
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April 21st, 2017 14:00
These should take an NVMe drive, no problem. They're shipped with these as an option.
Make your recovery media to a 16G flash drive, remove the hard drive and install to the NVMe drive. Once it's up and running, you can reconnect the original hard drive if you want to use it as a storage device.
tomrawlings
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April 26th, 2017 15:00
Thanks for your reply, ejn63! I ordered the drive and I'll be installing it tonight or tomorrow! Appreciate confirmation that it should work. Thanks again!