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HP Z230 - NVMe and PCIe Card
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Jeff Gaines
Jul 23, 2020, 10:40:10 AM7/23/20
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The card arrived earlier so I put the Sabrent in it and inserted it in the
Z230.
The good news is it was immediately recognised.
The not so good news is that the Z230 won't boot from it (the next model
apparently does) and it completely confused the BIOS so that it didn't
know what to boot from.
I reset the boot order in the BIOS to fix that then took of the primary
partition and put a logical drive on it. I now have a stonkingly fast data
drive that could do with being bigger than its 500 GB.
Comparative benchmarks here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/76e1308toycaey2/BM-Combined.png?dl=0
The SSD is a WD Blue.
--
Jeff Gaines Wiltshire UK
I've been through the desert on a horse with no name.
It was a right bugger to get him back when he ran off.
Jaimie Vandenbergh
Jul 23, 2020, 10:43:33 AM7/23/20
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On 23 Jul 2020 at 15:40:07 BST, ""Jeff Gaines"" <jgaines...@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
> I reset the boot order in the BIOS to fix that then took of the primary
> partition and put a logical drive on it. I now have a stonkingly fast data
> drive that could do with being bigger than its 500 GB.
You can install Windows on the non-boot drive, it puts the boot stuff on one
and the rest of Windows on the other, which will get you the nice speed but it
does mean you then have a double chance of failure as both boot and Windows
disks need to be working to come up.
Cheers - Jaimie
--
Imagine how happy you might be if you spent less time
imagining how happy you might be.
-- j comeau, a softer world
wrote:
> I reset the boot order in the BIOS to fix that then took of the primary
> partition and put a logical drive on it. I now have a stonkingly fast data
> drive that could do with being bigger than its 500 GB.
and the rest of Windows on the other, which will get you the nice speed but it
does mean you then have a double chance of failure as both boot and Windows
disks need to be working to come up.
Cheers - Jaimie
--
Imagine how happy you might be if you spent less time
imagining how happy you might be.
-- j comeau, a softer world
Jeff Gaines
Jul 23, 2020, 12:05:09 PM7/23/20
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On 23/07/2020 in message <hntm0j...@mid.individual.net> Jaimie
experimenting was more important than having a working machine! I'll think
about it.
--
Jeff Gaines Wiltshire UK
I take full responsibility for what happened - that is why the person that
was responsible went immediately.
(Gordon Brown, April 2009)
Vandenbergh wrote:
>On 23 Jul 2020 at 15:40:07 BST, ""Jeff Gaines""
><jgaines...@yahoo.co.uk>
>wrote:
>
>>I reset the boot order in the BIOS to fix that then took of the primary
>>partition and put a logical drive on it. I now have a stonkingly fast data
>>drive that could do with being bigger than its 500 GB.
>
>You can install Windows on the non-boot drive, it puts the boot stuff on
>one
>and the rest of Windows on the other, which will get you the nice speed
>but it
>does mean you then have a double chance of failure as both boot and Windows
>disks need to be working to come up.
>
> Cheers - Jaimie
I think I may have done that in the dim and distant past when
>On 23 Jul 2020 at 15:40:07 BST, ""Jeff Gaines""
><jgaines...@yahoo.co.uk>
>wrote:
>
>>I reset the boot order in the BIOS to fix that then took of the primary
>>partition and put a logical drive on it. I now have a stonkingly fast data
>>drive that could do with being bigger than its 500 GB.
>
>You can install Windows on the non-boot drive, it puts the boot stuff on
>one
>and the rest of Windows on the other, which will get you the nice speed
>but it
>does mean you then have a double chance of failure as both boot and Windows
>disks need to be working to come up.
>
> Cheers - Jaimie
experimenting was more important than having a working machine! I'll think
about it.
--
Jeff Gaines Wiltshire UK
was responsible went immediately.
(Gordon Brown, April 2009)
Raj Kundra
Jul 23, 2020, 12:26:26 PM7/23/20
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On 23/07/2020 15:40, Jeff Gaines wrote:
>
> The card arrived earlier so I put the Sabrent in it and inserted it in
> the Z230.
>
> The good news is it was immediately recognised.
>
> The not so good news is that the Z230 won't boot from it (the next
> model apparently does) and it completely confused the BIOS so that it
> didn't know what to boot from.
>
> I reset the boot order in the BIOS to fix that then took of the
> primary partition and put a logical drive on it. I now have a
> stonkingly fast data drive that could do with being bigger than its
> 500 GB.
>
> Comparative benchmarks here:
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/76e1308toycaey2/BM-Combined.png?dl=0
>
> The SSD is a WD Blue.
>
first thing to do is get latest BIOS and update it, then see other things.
>
> The card arrived earlier so I put the Sabrent in it and inserted it in
> the Z230.
>
> The good news is it was immediately recognised.
>
> The not so good news is that the Z230 won't boot from it (the next
> model apparently does) and it completely confused the BIOS so that it
> didn't know what to boot from.
>
> I reset the boot order in the BIOS to fix that then took of the
> primary partition and put a logical drive on it. I now have a
> stonkingly fast data drive that could do with being bigger than its
> 500 GB.
>
> Comparative benchmarks here:
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/76e1308toycaey2/BM-Combined.png?dl=0
>
> The SSD is a WD Blue.
>
Raj Kundra
Jul 23, 2020, 12:32:44 PM7/23/20
to
On 23/07/2020 15:40, Jeff Gaines wrote:
>
>
> The card arrived earlier so I put the Sabrent in it and inserted it in
> the Z230.
>
> The good news is it was immediately recognised.
>
> The not so good news is that the Z230 won't boot from it (the next
> model apparently does) and it completely confused the BIOS so that it
> didn't know what to boot from.
>
> I reset the boot order in the BIOS to fix that then took of the
> primary partition and put a logical drive on it. I now have a
> stonkingly fast data drive that could do with being bigger than its
> 500 GB.
>
> Comparative benchmarks here:
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/76e1308toycaey2/BM-Combined.png?dl=0
>
> The SSD is a WD Blue.
>
Here is latest BIOS dated April 28, 2020, which might sort it for you.
> the Z230.
>
> The good news is it was immediately recognised.
>
> The not so good news is that the Z230 won't boot from it (the next
> model apparently does) and it completely confused the BIOS so that it
> didn't know what to boot from.
>
> I reset the boot order in the BIOS to fix that then took of the
> primary partition and put a logical drive on it. I now have a
> stonkingly fast data drive that could do with being bigger than its
> 500 GB.
>
> Comparative benchmarks here:
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/76e1308toycaey2/BM-Combined.png?dl=0
>
> The SSD is a WD Blue.
>
https://support.hp.com/gb-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-z230-tower-workstation/5367825
Haidar Mukmin
May 20, 2021, 7:29:30 PM5/20/21
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