PCIe M.2 HDD in Hp 8300 Elite

[Chet Manley]

This is equally BIOS related but I decided to work the hard drive angle.

Despite my best research efforts I've been unable to discover if either type of M.2 (PCI, SATA) would work in this machine using an adapter in the X4 slot. Curious if anyone has tried this or has the answer locked away in their head.

My suspicion is it won't work. I know it does on an Elitedesk 800 G1 because I installed the BIOS update the day it came out this year. Same day as HP announced their Z Turbo Drive.

Thanks for any solid cues one way or the other

Chet Manley

 

[k1114]

M.2 will work in any pcie slot with an adapter. If this is about booting to it, then that is another question and needs bios support.

 

[Chet Manley]

Boot would be ideal. SATA M.2 is what you are probably referring to and is probably the safer bet to try booting from. If it throws a BSOD, just reformat and get a small SSD for the OS.

Barring someone with direct knowledge chiming in I'd consider this solved. Thanks.

 

[k1114]

Pcie vs sata m.2 modes are irrelevant. The bios needs to have support to boot from the pcie slot. Also you can boot from either mode but you'd be in pcie mode since you have no sata from the slot and the adapter is probably not converting to sata. As far as a normal m.2 slot, if the mobo has the slot, it most likely has nvme support but it's always good to check.

 

[Chet Manley]

I'm not even sure they pushed that out any lower down their business chain than the 800 G1. Having no interest in the 705 or 600 it's irrelevant. Going to shift focus towards a 800 G1 or a new G2 with the Q170 chipset.

(cough) 960 Pro (cough)

 

[Michael_276]

This is equally BIOS related but I decided to work the hard drive angle.

Despite my best research efforts I've been unable to discover if either type of M.2 (PCI, SATA) would work in this machine using an adapter in the X4 slot. Curious if anyone has tried this or has the answer locked away in their head.

My suspicion is it won't work. I know it does on an Elitedesk 800 G1 because I installed the BIOS update the day it came out this year. Same day as HP announced their Z Turbo Drive.

Thanks for any solid cues one way or the other

Chet Manley

I have HP Compaq 8300 SFF that I bought refurbished on amazon.com. I upgraded the firmware to the latest in hopes this would solve the issue - but had no luck after spending many hours on it. I think the bottom line is this line of firmware just doesn't support the latest NVMe standard, which means the firmware does not recognize a boot device in a PCIe slot, unless the expansion card is a known standard, like SATA or USB. I tried all different types of configurations and google'd all over. This PC is just too old (3-4 years) and NVMe is just too new. Timing issue. I'm sure other newer HP products have support for NVMe but not the Elite 8300 series.