On 15/7/2017 11:29 pm, Sherman Grunewagen wrote:
To be clear, my issue is with the new M.2 PCIe SSD "drive" itself which I ordered from amazon. It arrives today and I'm not certain it will work. I've not been able to confirm it does or doesn't, and Dell support has been no help. (I've never used SSD before, let alone PCIe SSD) It's the Samsung PM961 1TB card, by the way, if anyone knows about this stuff.
I haven't used one either, but my friends do (one using Ubuntu, the other using Windows, neither with any special computing skills). My understanding is that they're supposed to be a drop-in hard drive replacement. Your OS should work with them in the same way.
If they need any special parameters I'm unaware of them, and I would hope that if you do a fresh install onto one of them that the installer would do what it needs to do.
If you install a SSD by itself, you're free to experiment on it. Your other, unplugged, drive won't be disturbed by such testing.