XW8400 SSD problem

[Contrajon]

Hello. I had just purchased an HP xw8400 workstation and wanted to breathe new life into it with an SSD. I purchased a Samsung

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

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[Saberus]

Shouldn't be any reason it won't work. You have a total of 6 SATA ports, 4 SAS ports, and five hard drive bays. It is SATA 1 so you'll only see 1.5Gbps transfer speeds.

Even if the model is somehow SAS only, SAS will see and use SATA drives by default.

 

[Contrajon]

sorry, im not sure why it got cut off. I purchased a Samsung 850 EVO and changed the settings in the BIOS to AHCI. It won't boot and when I changed it back to the hard drive that was already in it, the ssd was not recognized under This PC. I read a post saying that it wasn't compatible but that was after I had bought it.