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Balde 15 Base Model - M.2 nvme SSD Interface

  • April 8, 2019
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Hello, im affraid this has been asked before, but I could not find an answer to my question, so my apoligies if so. I bought the Blade 15 base @ 256GB SATA nvme ssd + 2 TB HDD. I now plane to upgrade the SSD but couldn find any sepcs to the m.2 socket, if it can handle ssd drives with higher bandwith as SATA 3 speaking of pciex4. So in short: Can the Blade Base Model with its m.2 socket handle nvme drives via pcie x4 @ 3.xxx GB/s isntead of SATA 3 @ max 5XX MB/s ? Greetings, Daniel
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Joikansai
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  • April 8, 2019
Greetings:smile_: You have already nvme on that model, there’s no sata nvme ssd, either nvme or sata. So the answer yes.

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  • April 8, 2019
You Are wrong. - Just watch your Image (Massenspeicher/ Deutsch hm ?) It says "128 GB SSD (SATA-III). A M.2 Socket can provide either SATA protocol or connect via pci-e x1<->4. Depending on if it is a Socket B- or M- Key (5 or 6 Pin) it can Provide either SATA, pcie or Both. M-Connector with 5 Pins seems to provide both: For what I found out - Thre Blade Base Model has a 5 Pin-Connector aka M-Key Socket. This should result in being able to run at pciex4. I bought a drive and expect it to arrive tomorrow - I will report

Joikansai
Vanguard
  • Community Ranger
  • April 8, 2019
Nforcerino
You Are wrong. - Just watch your Image (Massenspeicher/ Deutsch hm ?) It says "128 GB SSD (SATA-III). A M.2 Socket can provide either SATA protocol or connect via pci-e x1<->4. Depending on if it is a Socket B- or M- Key (5 or 6 Pin) it can Provide either SATA, pcie or Both. M-Connector with 5 Pins seems to provide both: For what I found out - Thre Blade Base Model has a 5 Pin-Connector aka M-Key Socket. This should result in being able to run at pciex4. I bought a drive and expect it to arrive tomorrow - I will report
Did you buy 128gb the cheapest one or 256gb, I’m pointing Model that you mentioned, 256gb it’s nvme. Cheaper 128gb comes with sata and after that I marked is with nvme, sata is slower with max 600MB/s and and later is depends on brand for example 970Evo is around 3GB/s I’m talking about reading speed. About socket idk quite specific, but your Blade capable to run both Sata and nvme.

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  • April 9, 2019
I bought the one with 256 ... So I was lucky one could say. I installed the new drive and tested. Here are the results: Samsung MZ-V7E1T0BW SSD 970 EVO 1 TB Rated Read 3.300 MB/s | Write 2.500 MB/s So it seems to be performing within range :)

  • June 3, 2019
Hi All, has anyone done an Nvme ssd on 128 GB version? I have one and want to confirm that I can plug the Nvme instead of my current 128 GB. on RB support they confirmed that I could but you never know. thanks