My brand new M.2 NVMe SDD SM961 arrived today, and I decided to check if it improved the performance on my XPS 13. I know it'll probably be bottlenecked by the x2 PCI-E interface, but anyway. If I don't see any improvement, it'll go in my desktop.
The installation of the drive went smoothly, the Windows 10 installation recognized the drive and everything was installed correctly (from USB) at the first attempt without touching anything ..
But after the installation, impossible to boot from the drive: no bootable devices detected
I've tried:
Install without UEFI (legacy): The Windows 10 installation can't create partitions / format the hard drive.
Install with UEFI: Windows 10 install works, doesn't find a boot device after.
Install with UEFI, then go legacy in BIOS: Recovery screen: winload.exe Error code 0xc00000e.
I don't quite understand why the Windows 10 installation is capable of detecting the drive & installing everything correctly, and then the computer is not able to boot after that.
I have the latest BIOS (A09).
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Dell Nvm Express Controller Driver Xps 13 Laptop
How-to guide: PCIe SSD upgrade using the Dell XPS 13 (9350) as an example. If the PCIe SSD is indeed connected at the maximum bandwidth, a possible culprit could be the software respectively.
The controller is now in AHCI mode, running the generic Microsoft driver. Now let’s proceed to update that to the OCZ RD400 driver. Download and extract OCZ RD400 driver zip here. Once you finish downloading and extracting the driver, open your Device Manager, then: Storage Controllers - Standard NVM Express Controller.
I've also tried to manually create the hard drive in the UEFI Boot Sequence like this page explains. But then I got another Recovery screen when trying to boot Windows. I'm only able to do this when the USB media is connected (edit: yeah, you guessed, no SSD, only seeing the USB there). If I do it when it's disconnected, I get a'File System not found' prompt.
I finally ended up changing the motherboard for a 9350 one. It improves the 9343 in significant ways:
NVMe drives work.
It provides a USB-C Thunderbolt port.
Slightly new processor.
I upgraded from 8Gb to 16Gb in the process.
The 9350 motherboard has basically the same layout as the 9343, so switching motherboards is not very difficult if you follow the iFixit guide and some Youtube videos.
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If the BIOS recognises the drive, and you were able to install Windows 10 on it, then obviously it's not a hardware/compatibility problem. It's likely not even a driver problem, unless the drivers somehow were removed after installation or were specific to the Windows installation image but aren't included in the OS - which seems unlikely.
Have you checked the BIOS for 'legacy boot', 'compatibility' or 'secure boot' settings? On Asus motherboards these need to be either disabled or set to allow UEFI boot devices in order for M2 drives to be bootable.
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Standard Nvm Express Controller Driver
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Toshiba NVME slow write speed fix.
Dell Nvm Express Controller Driver Xps 13 2
I recently purchased an XPS 13 9360 with a 256GB Toshiba NVME SSD (THNSN5256GPUK). I was noticing that it felt a lot slower than the standard SATA SSD in my desktop. It feld more like a HDD. After some testing I found out that read speeds seemed to be fine but write speeds and 4k speeds were very slow. So on my search to find a fix I stumbled on a guide on Tom's Hardware. It says that you can install the OCZ RD400 (another NVME drive) driver for your storage controller instead of the standard windows one to fix the issue. The fix worked and it gave me an enormous performance boost. The drive feels like a proper SSD now.
Installing the driver: Device Manager > Storage Devices > NVME controller > Update driver software > browse my computer.. > Let me pick from.. > Have Disk.. > choose ocznvme.inf (inside the x64 folder) > RD400 > restart your pc.
Link to guide:http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3277929/microsoft-nvme-drivers-poor-random-write-performance-purchase-nvme-drives-proprietary-drivers.html
OCZ Driver:https://ssd.toshiba-memory.com/download/drivers/nvme/windows/ocznvme-1.2.126.843_whck.zipBefore and after:https://imgur.com/gallery/y45fQ