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- WINDOWS 7 X64 DRIVERS FOR SAMSUNG XP941 SSD INSTALL
- WINDOWS 7 X64 DRIVERS FOR SAMSUNG XP941 SSD UPDATE
- WINDOWS 7 X64 DRIVERS FOR SAMSUNG XP941 SSD DRIVER
- WINDOWS 7 X64 DRIVERS FOR SAMSUNG XP941 SSD UPGRADE
- WINDOWS 7 X64 DRIVERS FOR SAMSUNG XP941 SSD PRO
To get the XP941 working in the ASUS Z97 Pro motherboard, see these excellent instructions. The latest news on the XP941 is that it is fully compatible and bootable in all new Intel X99-chipset motherboards, and with most previous generation Z97-chipset based motherboards, such as the ASRock Z97 Extreme6 (no adapter required). It is a big improvement over HDD if you're like me and don't need a whole lot of documents storage space inside the box.Now confirmed compatible in desktop machines including the 2006-2012 Model Mac Pro! But for that Z600 at home with the Predator I put in a big SATA II Samsung Enterprise SSD that I tracked down on eBay used for very little cost. Many don't even have a second drive in place. I don't need massive documents space inside my builds. So, again, I'll probably give the Predator-upgrade-to-W10 project one try and that will be down the road, maybe not until after summer. I'd say DGroves approach above is less fiddly by quite a bit, and it will work with great certainty under W10. it was a tinkerer's dream project, but many of us don't have time for that now.
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I would not build a Z600 up that way any more. It added a bit of snap to the feel of the build, and I am using two of the fastest processors and also matching fastest speed memory. The Predator project was a huge time sink until I happened upon the solution. New SATA III SSDs have come down so much in price that buying a used SATA II SSD pretty much no longer makes sense. I personally had been using the Intel 320 series (SATA II) 300GB or 600GB SSDs from eBay in most of the Z600s we still have running. The performance of a SATA III or SATA II drive in a Z600 (or any other SATA II workstation) is such a huge improvement over a HDD that few of us can tell the difference between that and a SATA III SSD running in a SATA III workstation (such as a Z620). If you are a tinkerer on your computer then DUET/REFIND is a great way to go, if you just want to "USE" your system hassle free then the marvell 9230 card setup or just a plain SATA SSD is the way to go if a predator drive can't be sourced
WINDOWS 7 X64 DRIVERS FOR SAMSUNG XP941 SSD INSTALL
Using a software based nvme preloader (DUET/REFIND) PM me on this forum for details, it took me under 20 min to read the directions and install win 10 using this method, and while win 7 could be also done this way i suspect it's more involved due to win 7 not having native ssd support and needing the nvme drivers slipstreamed into it
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The OCZ RevoDrive 3 and RevoDrive 3 x2 line of pci-e ssd's will also boot on a z600/z800 (the revodrive 2 line will not!!) Using a adaptec ASR-6805 SAS/SATA raid card with 2 sata ssd in raid 0 and optionally using two other ports for another raid 0 which is then raided into a raid 10 drive (this setup using 120/240 GB drives is rather fast) Installing a PCI-E x2 SATA III 6GBps card using a marvel 9230 chip card will get you speeds just under twice the sata limit of 600MB/s when using two SATA SSD'S in raid 0 If "SDH" can post some predator ssd benchmarks i have some other options you might want to consider
WINDOWS 7 X64 DRIVERS FOR SAMSUNG XP941 SSD DRIVER
Windows 10 has a generic native nvme driver which supports booting from all known nvme (and sata) ssd's note that the motherboard bios must also support nvme boot (which the z600/z800) lacks The predator ssd is a x2 pci-e card as i recall similar to the original HP z turbo card that originally came with a samsung xp941 Life had gotten too busy and I may not be able to budget time for this legacy project. W10, however, likes to force its will regarding drivers, and preventing that is not easy. getting the Predator to show up in BIOS as a target boot drive was not easy, also.
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The way I got it to work initially under W7Pro64 was to build the system on an Intel SSD and then Acronis-capture that, and then Acronis -clone that to the Predator SSD. It was pure luck that I did not stop after my first attempt with with the other storage driver installer HP offered failed.
WINDOWS 7 X64 DRIVERS FOR SAMSUNG XP941 SSD UPDATE
If W10 forces a driver update over what I used for that then it will likely break the Predator functionality. Remember that the key to getting that Predator to work was to use the specific storage controller driver I found worked with the Predator under W7. I have more modern boxes 50 feet away but that is running so well (as is W10 21H1 here) that I need to give it a try and keep that Z600 going. If so then it will be registered automatically via its UUID (in BIOS) in the Microsoft W10 activation servers. I have to check if that Z600 was ever W10Pro64 upgraded.
WINDOWS 7 X64 DRIVERS FOR SAMSUNG XP941 SSD UPGRADE
The plan would be to capture that, and then try a straight upgrade from within the build to W10Pro64. I can capture an Acronis image from the Z600 I have running on a Predator in my home office on a clean W7Pro64 build (so I can recreate that build if it breaks under W10).