Hey all,
i am using a FUJITSU Desktop ESPRIMO P756 (I5 6500) WIN10 Pro (GPT).
The Motherboard is a D3401-A, and comes with a M.2-Port, which can fit a M.2-SATA III or a M.2-NVMe PCIe 3.0x2 .
(when i bought the PC, it came with its Factory-installed M.2-SATA-SSD)
Allthough the PC works very well for me, i allways thougt, that an upgrade to an NVMe would be nice.
Even though the M.2-Port is only PCIe 3.0x2, it would offer around double the actual SATA-Speed (maybe more).
Further, for even more Speed, there would be the possibility to use a PCIe-to-NVMe-Adaptor, in an additional existing PCIe 3.0x4-Socket.
I allways was hesitant, because i thought, that NVMe-Boot was not supported for this platform.
Finaly yesterday i gave it a shot, and tried this:
Because i didn’t want to reinstall all System and Software from scratch, i cloned my SATA-SSD to a brand-new NVMe (1TB Samsung 980), using Acronis.
(i know, mostly recommended is a clean-install, but that would really be a “pain in the A$$” for me…)
After a little bit of back and forth, i finally got it to boot from the NVMe (BIOS-Setting: UEFI; CSM off; TPM on)
BIOS-Boot-Menue shows as first entry: “Windows Boot Manager (P1: Samsung SSD 980 1TB”
Regarding to several Benchmark-Programs, the maximum read-/write-speed of about 1600 MB/s is achieved, not bad.
So, at first glance, it seems to work fine, but i’m not sure, how stable it might be, and if i can trust it…
On one side i’m happy, that it seems to work (knock on wood…), on the other side i’m not sure, if i only was lucky.
So far, nowhere in the documentation from Fujitsu i could find the explicit info, that NVMe-Boot is supported at all.
(unlike for newer Motherboards, where this feature is explicit mentioned)
I’ve been reading a while in this Forum (though not all the Pages…), but there are still doubts…
Regarding the Datasheets, the BIOS is an AMI Aptio V
Is it so, that this BIOS does offer full NVMe-Support (incl. BOOT), even if not oficially stated ?
At the moment i don’t have a dump (.rom-File) from my very own BIOS, but in one BIOS-File (for this 3401-A MoBo), which i found in www, i couldn’t
find the Module “NvmExpressDxe_5.ffs” (or is it only for AMI Aptio IV) ?
An other thougt: maybe the Samsung 980 NVMe “does the trick” with some kind of option-ROM (similar to the Samsung 950) ?
So my questions are:
Was i only lucky so far, or is my System on the brink of an fatal data-loss ?
(btw.: since i had to learn some lessons the hard way, i run frequent backups …)
Or would it be strongly recommended to do any kind of BIOS-Mod to get full-NVMe-Support ?
Any thougts /comments / ideas ?
FUJITSU Desktop ESPRIMO P756 (I5 6500) WIN10 Pro (GPT)
Motherboard D3401-A
BIOS AMI Aptio V (Customized by Fujitsu)
M.2-Port: can fit a M.2-SATA III or a M.2-NVME PCIe 3.0x2 (here: 1TB Samsung 980 NVME)
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