Installing Samsung 840 EVO 1TB MSATA SSD in a HP 8570w

Yesterday was a good day! I finally could lay may hands on not only one, but two Samsung 840 EVO 1TB SSD MSATA cards, and went about to install them in my HP 8570w machines. I bought them at Fry's in Seattle (well Renton, really), and because of their "Match Internet Price" deal, I did not have to pay the initial 549.99 USD price (each) they had, but rather the much better 409 USD price that Amazon sold them for.

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The MSATA card on the hood of our rental car for the week.

Installing the MSATA card

After turning off the HP 8570w, I removed the battery (I know, I'm a chicken), and then removed the bottom cover. When unpacking the Samsung MSATA card I realize they didn't ship any screws, so rather than have the MSATA card hanging loose, I borrowed a screw from the normal hard drive bay (will replace it later).

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The MSATA Card installed in the HP 8570w.

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The MSATA Card installed

Card not found

After booting into Windows, I realized the card was not detected, even though I hade enabled MSATA in BIOS previously. It turned out I simply had to visit the BIOS setup once (without any setup changes at all), for the machine to pick up the card. I had to do this for both my HP 8570w machines, so apparently it's a "feature".

Checking firmware

For those of you using Samsung SSD's in the past you probably know they had a performance issue that was fixed in a firmware upgrade released in October 2014. The firmware is available for download on the Samsung website (direct link). Get the Samsung Magician.

Luckily the drive a bought already had the latest firmware.

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Checking disk drive firmware.

All in all, the SSD is ready be used.

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/ Happy deployment, Johan

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jrobb259
jrobb259
8 years ago

Just fair warning… The performance issues were not fixed with the October firmware update.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8997/samsung-releases-statement-on-840-evo-performance-another-fix-is-in-the-works


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