Surface 8 Pro - new SSD - compatibility with PCIe 4

Anonymous
2022-08-21T13:47:41+00:00

Hello,

is the Surface 8 Pro compatible with PCIe 4 drives or can I only use PCIe 3 ssd?

If not all drives are compatible, which drives work?

Best regards,

Peter

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-06-12T20:38:44+00:00

    Hello,

    Thank you for reporting.

    And how does it work in sleep mode / awakening ?

    Because my SP8 crash every time after sleeping mode.l with the WD SN740.

    Thank you.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-06-12T18:42:08+00:00

    I'd like to give a little update about the new Corsair MP600 Mini. Windows installation finished with no blue screens, no freezes, no bootloops. No need to apply the patches. The speeds are fantastic as well: I get 4800/4800 MBps!

    I haven't run complete tests of how it functions in sleep modes.

    Will keep you guys updated!

    Tested on 1TB drive.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-05-28T05:39:35+00:00

    Unfortunately this did not actually work for me. It helped the install go through to Windows, but any updates after that would send it into hard BSDO + boot-loop mode. Can't even boot to USB, or if it does, the USB installer screen is completely non-responsive. Nothing can be clicked/touched, does not respond to keyboard (including to open the command prompt with Shift-F10), cannot be exited, etc.

    Updated: Tried a few more times and eventually got into USB in an responsive way. I repeated the steps and noticed that some of the reg values got reset, so I set them again. Also, this time the diskpart disk/volume numbers were slightly different than before, so anyone running it from the script should double-check.

    No luck.

    So I manually added the above key that wasn't available by default, and set the values as recommended. Then it took a few more restarts for Windows to fix itself, and now I managed to get back into the full system.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-05-07T06:07:37+00:00

    Thanks. This

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\OFFLINE\ControlSet001\Control\Power\User\PowerSchemes\381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e\0012ee47-9041-4b5d-9b77-535fba8b1442\0b2d69d7-a2a1-449c-9680-f91c70521c60]

    "DCSettingIndex"=dword:00000000

    "ACSettingIndex"=dword:00000000

    Wasn't available on my machine, but it worked fine by applying all the other changes.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-05-01T02:17:04+00:00

    SP8 has widely reported stability problems with PCIe 4.

    If you want more storage and a stable system, stay with a Gen3 SSD in the SP8.

    We recently upgraded 2 x SP8 i7/16/256 LTE to 1TB Samsung PM991a SSD ( Part No MZ9LQ1T0HBLB-00B00 ) and both are working well. We got similar real world speeds using winsat disk between the Kioxia BG4 and Samsung PM991a when mounted in the SP8. So still only Gen3 performance but they are working well.

    We documented the upgrade and posted a full how to guide along with the speed test comparisons at https://windowssolved.com/ultimate-guide-how-to-upgrade-microsoft-surface-pro-8-ssd/

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