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Windows 7 and NVMe Imaging Issues
Hello All,
I looked around the forums to see if anyone has come across this issue.
When I image from the K2000 on any system that has a NVMe drive (Optiplex 7440 AIO, Latitude 7470). My imaging speeds are horrendously slow. I image over a gigabit connection and I only see speeds of 10-15MBps. I tested this with older machines using the SATA interface including those that use SSD's and my speeds can reach to about 100-200MBps.
A couple of things that I have tried -
I have recreated the KBE environments numerous times. I am using WINPE 10 Driver pack.
The network admins have verified that there are no networking issues with the K2000.
I installed Windows 7 with NVME drivers integrated and their is no issue.
I believe it has something to do with the boot environment not having NVMe drivers. I have found NVMe drivers that I could include in the boot environment but I wanted to see if anyone has seen this issue.
I created a custom Windows 7 disc using the following instructions -
support.software.dell.com/.../185551
Thanks,
Roland C.
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June 11th, 2016 14:00
And I figured it out.....
Download the following NVMe drivers - [View:/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/4448/8863.Samsung_2B00_NVMe_2B00_driver.zip:0:0]
When you download the WINPE 10 Driver Pack (I'm sure you could do this with the WINPE 5 and 4 versions), extract it and add the NVMe drivers to the storage folder. Create the new boot environment using the K2000 Media Manager. Once created, boot into K2000 and image the machine. You will see the immediate difference. In my case, my imaging speeds went from 10Mbps to about 350Mbps.
Those drivers will only work for Samsung NVMe drives which are currently being installed on all newer machines (Optiplex 7440 AIO, Latitude E7470, etc) This drive is an option that is available when you customize the machine. I believe you still can purchase SATA enabled drives then you won't have to worry about this issue. Hope it helps
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February 3rd, 2017 09:00
This isn't always the case. Now they are coming with Lite-On drives. The specific one I have in my Optiplex 7440 AIO is: NVMe CX2-8B256-Q11 NV SCSI Disk Device. I currently cannot find the driver to inject into my boot.wim to find the drive. I have people talking about a Microsoft driver but I can't seem to find anything except a hotfix that *may* have the driver buried inside it.
No driver on the Optiplex 7440 AIO support page... of course SMH. Tons of firmware.. no driver. It's frustrating when Dell changes their supplier like this and doesn't have support up to date.
Any help is appreciated. thanks!