I’m looking to upgrade the SSD boot drive in my Z620 (V2 motherboard, full specs below).
I am considering a HP Z Turbo Drive (512 GB or 1 TB). Luckily I did some reading on these forums before grabbing one from eBay.
Questions:
1. Apparently only the original, “G1”, version will work in a Z620. What’s the part number for that version? I keep finding G2 versions on the web or part numbers that I can’t be sure belong to the G1 version.
2. Is there a cable (I assume it’s for the drive activity light on the front of the case) with the G1 version? If so what’s the part number?
3. Will the heatsink from the G2 version fit on the G1? Any real benefit? I just think it looks cool. :)
4. Are the following statements correct?
a. The Z Turbo Drive G1 is highly unlikely to work (as a boot drive) in a non-HP PC.
b. The G1 will work witha non-HP AHCI M.2 SSD but not with a nVME SSD.
5. Any recommended alternative, bootable PCIe-based SSDs for my Z620? I see really cheap PCIe cards but I don’t want to end up with something that has compatibility problems or is just junk.
Advice is much appreciated!
This forum led me to build my slightly unconventional liquid-cooled Z620 and has been a great source of info on this workstation.
Z620 V2
Intel E5-1660 V2 3.7 GHz CPU
Z420 Liquid CPU cooler
32 GB DDR3 ECC Reg RAM (2x 16 GB)
Crucial MX100 512 GB 2.5” SSD boot drive
Western Digital Red 4 TB data drive
8 GB Sapphire Pulse AMD RX580 graphics card
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit