So i got my hands on the 2016 Razer Blade, was hoping to be able to replace the internal SSD with the Sandisk X400 1TB M.2 Drive. (Warranty be damned), and to my surprise, the bios does not even detect the drive at all... Have windows installation going from USB, and it cant see the drive either. (I went into bios to make sure and its not showing as a drive being detected....
To be sure, i plopped the drive into an enclosure i have for M.2 Drives just in case, and can see its working just fine... even formatted before hand from RAW to NTFS just in case... but still nothing. Whats going on here? Am i missing something?
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Hey there;
Yes, you are missing something. The Sandisk X400 is an M.2 SATA drive, but the Blade uses an M.2 NVMe. While they use a similar interface - the M.2 - the controllers are not compatible.
Right now I don't think there are M.2 NVMe drives larger than 500/512GB, but I could be wrong. -
I think i answered my own question. Apparently the Sandisk M.2 SSD Drive is not PCIe, and is only SATA. How come is M.2 apparently capable of different protocols... ****in aye man...!!
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Yep, same problem with the Razer Blade Stealth. You can sometimes find a Samsung PM951 1TB PCIe SSD on eBay.
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Awww man, part of me wants to get that x400 for my 2014. The other part wants me to just continue managing the 512 so my backups stay smaller. I've always got at least 70-80GB free. I think I'll continue to fight the urge.
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If it's a SATA m.2 2280, which it appears to be, it should be. The only way to truly know is try it. I find it hard to believe there would be some compatibility issue.
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cant find any review of Samsung 950 series -
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I'm surprised Razer hasn't added a 1TB model as a purchase option.
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I get abnormally low Random write and Read IOPS with the 950 Pro Razer Blade 2016. Anyone else experiencing this?
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I wouldn't call 80-100K low...
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Would running a max performance really help? Yes I am plugged in. I prefer a balance tweaked power setting.
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Yeah, if you aren't on max power, the CPU will step down in clock speed, and will force sleep cycles on processes. This will limit your peak I/O capabilities.
For best perf, you need to go into your bios and disable speedstep, and disable c-states...
-- Dave
Razer Blade (2016) M.2 Swap
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