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Offline  BearBack
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I need to increase the boot drive capacity in my aging but still functional AIO.
Already done secondary SSD upgrades etc... but the 128 gb Samsung XP941 pcie 2.0 is pretty much chokka
(MZHPU128HCGM-000H1)
Its a gen2x4 drive I believe. Can I buy any updated drive or are gen 4 or gen 3 not backwards compatible?
thanks

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Posted : 13/03/2023 4:44 am
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I think gen 4 are backwards compatible but they will work at gen 3 speeds and think the same for gen 2.
Hopefully someone better qualified will confirm.

 
Posted : 13/03/2023 7:11 am
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That Samsung XP941 was made in higher capacities, 256 and 512gb if you can find one. Released in 2014 though....

I'd be looking at forums to see if anyone else has done similar upgrades - possibly not that common for an AIO device. A Gen 3 ssd might work but the HP BIOS might just not recognise it at all or just see it as smaller than it is.

 
Posted : 14/03/2023 6:10 pm
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Yes, it will work, but limited to the fastest speed your motherboard can handle, so get whatever is a good deal and don’t bother with the fastest thing out there unless you know you are going to move it to a new system soon.

 
Posted : 14/03/2023 7:28 pm
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Bought a larger drive put it in a USB m.2 enclosure, cloned the C: partition into a new partition on the new drive then extended that partition to make it larger.
Then realized I might have to cone the system partition for the boot wizardry so have done that too.. but partition by partition, not the whole drive.

I assuem when I switch the m.2 drive out, I just change the boot order in the bios to reflect the new drive, as this is D: and C: will have been removed.

As I have to disassemble the screen, bezels etc to get teh the m.2 mount, any way I can test this clone before I take things apart?
Or have I already made a glaring error?

 
Posted : 20/03/2023 6:29 pm

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