The installation appears quite straightforward, the drive has to be already installed in the system to load the driver. The Samsung 960 Evo user manual indicates that in system having a UEFI Bios v.2.3 or after, the Samsung NVM Express driver 2.1 driver supports the Samsung NVMe SSD 960 PRO, 960 EVO and 950 PRO. But, that is an expert procedure and, like modiying the registery, seems a bit risky.
Which in effect decribes techniques by which is, "probably valid for all Intel 6,7,8,and 9-series chipset systems", using UEFI BIOS, by adding a mainboard EFI module to BIOS. " Guide about how to get full NVME support" The generic sequence of modifying a system for NVMe support is complex.
(960 Pro 512GB= $480) The perofrmnace at so much lower cost means the 960 Evo is very attractive. However, the Samsung SM951 AHCI 256GB currently costs $360 to 310, the 950 Pro 256GB costs $300+ whiile the 960 Evo 250GB costs $130 and the 500GB version: $250. In the z620, the HP Z Turbo Drive, which has the same Samsung SM951 AHCI drive appears to be well optimized, and made a Passmark Disk Mark of 13426, whereas the top mark for the 950 Pro 256GB NVMe is 12690. The SM951 AHCI installed in the z620 (of forum friend Brian1965). For comparison, on the z420, a Samsung SM951 256GB AHCI has a top mark of 13928. On Passmark baselines, a z420 / 950 Pro 256GB NVME has a Disk Mark of 15187. The performance of the Samsung 950 Pro NVMe drives is very good in zX20 workstations.
In the HP zX20 series systems, the only boot-capable NVMe drive out of the box has been the quite expensive Samsung 950 Pro M.2 NVMe (256Gb = $300, 512GB=$480) which has an internal BIOS that allows the system to recognize it as a boot device. The Samsung 950 Pro does have that capability- but are quite expensive. However, the question is whether the 960 Evo may be used as a boot drive on an HP zX20 series system.Īs NVMe memory post-dates the zX20 controller design, the special BIOS requirements for NVMe have to be added. These results approach those of the Samsung 960 Pro, the fastest drives available.
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