HP Z Turbo Drive
The HP Z Turbo Drive features the next generation PCIe NVMe SSD. This M.2 form factor device uses PCIe Gen3 x4 which enablesperformance levels greater than 3GB/s, which is roughly 6x greater than SATA SSDs. The Random Read performance issignificantly improved also, due to the NVMe controller technology used on the device. This performance is available at a pricethat is comparable to commercial SATA SSDs.
The HP Z Turbo Drive will be supported on desktop platforms of HP Z Workstations including Z2 G4 SFF and tower, Z2 G4 Mini, Z4,Z6 and Z8 G4, Z240, Z440, Z640 and Z840. It will support storage configurations as a Boot device and as a Data device. It also canbe configured with other storage components including SATA and SAS drives and controllers. Not all configurations are availablefrom the factory.
It is also supported by our current offering of Operating Systems, including Linux, and may require a separate driver, depending onOS. It does require a BIOS update for Z440, Z640 and Z840 systems shipped prior to the Z Turbo Drive launch, minimum BIOS is1.53. Z2 G4, Z4 G4, Z6 G4, and Z8 G4 have been enabled for Z Turbo Drive prior to launch, and do not require a minimum BIOSrevision.
The HP Z Turbo Drive comes with a custom thermal solution to keep the device within full performance operating temperatures.This solution consists of a heat sink and thermal pads to make a solid thermal connection between the heatsink and the M.2 SSD.Without adequate cooling, PCIe NVMe SSDs will throttle down their performance significantly, until the device cools off, to getback in the acceptable operating temperature range.