![]() ![]() The ZX00 series are SATA generation II workstations, and this is one way to break through the speed limits of that. The Predator is a PCIe Gen 2 card that can run through 4 PCIe lanes so you want to at least give it that. You can look up the PCIe slot type posiitons of your ZX00 workstations in the technical and service manual. For the xw6600 and xw4600 the two PCIe x16 slots are Gen 2 so use the lower of those for this card. For those with xw6400 workstations there are zero PCIe Gen 2 slots so you'll run at 1/2 speed. For my particular Z600 (my main home office workstation) I have a HP "2x2" Texas Instruments chipset USB3 card up in the top PCIe slot that would work for this, so I put the Predator card down in the lower PCIe x16 slot you'd normally think of as for a second video card. You want to place that in a PCIe slot that is generation 2 or higher, and has at least x4 lanes. Noticable jump in speed, for sure, and well worth it. The feel is more like an upgrade from a moderate to a very fast video card. For those who pay attention to such things: This upgrade is not like we experienced going from HDD to SSD. Breakthrough came from a clean install, from scratch, so I knew then that it could work and then I worked my way back to the two tricks above. I used DiskPart to clear the Predator before doing the clone. Also, my Acronis clone software would not clone over correctly until I changed image capture type to sector by sector. Blue screen the instant boot went beyond BIOS. HP has two storage controller drivers listed for the ZX00 series and the more recent one (11.) did not work when I updated to that, so stick with the original (9.). The Z800 works this way just like the Z600. Have not yet tried it on a spare xw4600 but have no reason to believe it will not work in that too. I also did some testing and got that up and running in one of my xw6400 and xw6600 workstations. I am now running the Kingston Predator M.2 PCIe card as my boot drive in one of my W7Pro64 Z600 workstations, and it is running great. Business PCs, Workstations and Point of Sale Systems.Printer Wireless, Networking & Internet.DesignJet, Large Format Printers & Digital Press.Printing Errors or Lights & Stuck Print Jobs.Notebook Hardware and Upgrade Questions. ![]()
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