How To Install The HP Z Turbo Drive G2 PCIe SSD

Step by step instruction on how to install the HP Z Turbo Drive G2 SSD on an HP Z440 workstation.
Click on this link for additional info from HP:
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The HP Z Turbo Drive PCIe SSD is an M.2 PCIe connected SSD.
The PCIe card used in the Z Turbo Drive requires a PCIe x4 slot for maximum performance.
The Z Turbo G2 is compatible with the HP Z Workstations for which it was designed as both a boot device and a storage device. It was not designed to work on other platforms.
The Z Turbo incorporates SSD technology that uses PCIe Gen3 x4 for added bandwidth and uses NVMe controller technology.
At over 2 Gigabites/sec the sequential read of the Z Turbo significantly outperforms a standard SATA SSD. All SATA SSDs are limited by the 6 GigaBits/s SATA bandwidth.
The Sequential performance of the Z Turbo is 4x faster than a standard SATA SSD.

[@honahwikeepa2115]

Thank you. I'm going to do this to my Z440.

[@danmckee9725]

helpful. thanks!

[@LuisCruz-yg6rs]

Super easy to follow tut. Ty so much for making it and sharing it.

[@MoulfritProd]

Glad it was helpful!

[@DrDaab]

What about LED cable polarity ? There is a polarity mark on the LED cable connector but no indication on the Turbo drive board.

[@brianlarsen3457]

Did you find out anything about the polarity?

[@Blurko17]

Can I do it with a HP Compaq dc5800 SFF which has a mother board "2820h" ?
I mean, to install a SSD PCIe NVMe with an adapter to a HP Compaq dc5800 SFF ?
In other words does the "2820h" mother board support the NVMe technology ?
At least it has the PCIe ports !!!
Thanks in advance for anyone who could help me with this !!!

[@Konanarian]

What's this music?

[@mikebreler9724]

Can I use a different brand adapter like Antec? I need to use as boot drive. Thanks

[@sergeyyatsenko3213]

Yes.

[@joseamaral6320]

Is this turbo drive, with a Samsung 512gb PM961 NVMe SSD, compatible with the HP Z820 WorkStation?
I bought one and still can't get it to work as a bootable disk with windows 10. Only as a data disk.
What do I have to do?

[@g4arquitecturag494]

No, it won't boot; Zx20 will only work with AHCI compatible SSD's (Intel 750, Samsung SM951) or it can't be used as a boot device; also check for the latest BIOS; no NVME support, though.

[@joseamaral6320]

@@g4arquitecturag494 After some time I was able to boot through a flash drive where I installed some Clover files.
In order not to always have the pen drive there, then I created a small partition on a data disk where I copied the files on the pen.
Thus, booting through Clover, installed on this partition, the NVMe SSD disk works perfectly.

[@honahwikeepa2115]

I did it without a hitch for $29 AU.

[@Alpha-ms9nj]

Hello, I realize this is an old upload but hope to know if installing the HP m.2 adapter runs any different in slot 5 instead of slot 4? I have an old HPZ 620 workstation and installed a GTX 1060 GPU card that is much wider then the Quadro K2000D that I removed that is now REALLY close to the HPZ adapter with the M.2 drive which is in slot 4. BTW the HP Turbo adapter is housing a rare Samsung SM951 512GB AHCI M.2 as my boot drive. It's slower then an NVME but works for me.

[@erikmanguslehnsherr4389]

I don't see any cables

[@wilsione]

does it works for z840?

[@VladIDrago]

Yes with Z2-Z8 too... .

[@michaelpearce4861]

Can you use this as boot drive

[@davebing11]

for a Z440 or z640 or Z840, Yes.. For zx00 or Zx20 no.

[@RayMurray]

what about the BIOS config?

[@dinubulgac1156]

hi, did you set up the BIOS?

[@RayMurray]

Yah

[@HouseofBrady]

id like some help with bios config

[@curvingfyre6810]

What did you do in the bios to make it work?

[@tarelochca8833]

это что старый двд.зачем ему шнурок нужен.

[@Smartphonekanalen]

Cable management? LOL