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
    2022-08-25T08:51:53+00:00

    I guess, the Koaxia BG4 is a PCIe 3.0 drive and the BG5 is the 4.0 version.

    So it seems, that the Surface cannot use those drives.

    This makes an official statement even more necessary, since the drives are downward compatible!

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-09-20T22:21:00+00:00

    so i been having the same issue as everyone else and what fixed the issue for me was a low level format of the ssd and downloading the AHCI Link Power Management HIPM-DIPM Power Options after you download the power options set it up to active and it should fix the issue btw im using a bg5 ssd

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-10-03T14:49:32+00:00

    I can confirm that this also much improved the compatibility for me with a WD SN740 - it was super unstable before. I setup the power options via command line in my original install and then cloned that install to my new SN740.

    More than doubled the speed of my read/write with the new SSD - getting reads of over 5,000MB/s and writes of 3,800.

    Thanks again!

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-10-04T17:48:24+00:00

    I'm trying to get my SN740 to work. I've applied the power options discussed above but I'm experiencing reboots when device is put into sleep mode. Can anyone help?

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-10-05T14:12:17+00:00

    My process was to apply the power options - on the working card - and then I cloned the hard drive using the free version of Macrium reflect.

    Not sure if that made any difference - but my system has been stable for days now.

    Ghostie above did specify a low-level format as part of their process - did you try that first?

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