My 2014 and 2015s both have an M-Key m.2 slot thus allowing the installation of a pcie ssd.
I got the chance to try it out with a Samsung PM951 and low and behold, it gets detected, but isn't bootable.
No suprise here, though i can't boot my sata m.2 that came with the RB any more too, so something's up.
The drive currently contains a Manjaro Linux install and if booted by a grub located on a usb stick, the nvme is detected ,it boots and does things fine.
Only downside is the performance, gnome-disks benchmarks it at 417MB/s read and 120MB/s write with Average 0.03mSec latency.
Worse then what is to be expected from the ssd and the 4xpcie2.0 DMI interface.
But hey, it works, kind of : )
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well, they don't.
or at least, not jet. The only things missing are some uefi drivers, and a switch to change the port mode from ahci to nvme.
that should be it. In theory.
If you, like i did, circumvent the bios driver problem by booting a usb stick, and then switching over to the ssd, it works since grub can load nvmes.
The crappy performance might be because of the portmode initially being set to ahci, though keep in mind, i have no clue, i know nothing : ) -
I was wrong. Windows boots just fine.
i'm amazed.
The pm951 shouldn't support ahci. What is going on ?
Why can't i boot linux, but windows ?
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