I have a Dell Inspiron 7590 purchased in Nov 2019. I purchased this model due to it access to internals so that I could upgrade it.
I have a Corsair MP510 960GB NVME drive that I have been using in an Intel NUC running Linux that I transplanted into the Dell Inspiron.
I used the Dell tools to reload Windows 10 and everything was great until a few issues cropped up after a few days of use:
1. Windows Restart using start->restart would hang in the POST section of the process.
2. Sleep wouldn't work
3. Shutdown and cold boots were fine
I tried a lot of things like power settings mentioned on forums, BIOS changes to secure boot and SATA settings ( Turning off intel RAID default and going to AHCI )
After a few days of trying different things I called up Dell Support not expecting to a lot from them. Fortunately I also had Dell Pro support on this laptop which meant that I got straight through to a knowledgeable support person.
They confirmed that I had tried everything reasonably possible to get this to work however in the Dell Users guide this model is supported upto 512GB on the M2 slot.
While it works fine* ( *with the annoyance issues above ) with the 960GB drive in there it's possible that the Dell BIOS may not be 'polished' to deal with larger capacity, or there is a firmware incompatibility with the Corsair drive ( I am using the latest FW ). It's reportedly a Toshiba chip under the Corsair brand and the Dell support rep mentioned there is a load of internal cases with Toshiba SSD's within the system however FW updates fixed most issues.
I will go back to the original Hynix NVME SSD for now an try maybe try a Samsung later down the track. The Corsair works great in the NUC however.
My advice is check the supported SSD limits from Dell ( even though going past the SSD capacity limits should be fine ) and possibly find someone on the forums who has upgraded your laptop successfully and stick with that brand combo.
I buy Corsair gear and will continue to buy it as it's quality stuff however in this particular case it hasn't quite worked out.
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I have a Dell Inspiron 7590 purchased in Nov 2019. I purchased this model due to it access to internals so that I could upgrade it.
I have a Corsair MP510 960GB NVME drive that I have been using in an Intel NUC running Linux that I transplanted into the Dell Inspiron.
I used the Dell tools to reload Windows 10 and everything was great until a few issues cropped up after a few days of use:
1. Windows Restart using start->restart would hang in the POST section of the process.
2. Sleep wouldn't work
3. Shutdown and cold boots were fine
I tried a lot of things like power settings mentioned on forums, BIOS changes to secure boot and SATA settings ( Turning off intel RAID default and going to AHCI )
After a few days of trying different things I called up Dell Support not expecting to a lot from them. Fortunately I also had Dell Pro support on this laptop which meant that I got straight through to a knowledgeable support person.
They confirmed that I had tried everything reasonably possible to get this to work however in the Dell Users guide this model is supported upto 512GB on the M2 slot.
While it works fine* ( *with the annoyance issues above ) with the 960GB drive in there it's possible that the Dell BIOS may not be 'polished' to deal with larger capacity, or there is a firmware incompatibility with the Corsair drive ( I am using the latest FW ). It's reportedly a Toshiba chip under the Corsair brand and the Dell support rep mentioned there is a load of internal cases with Toshiba SSD's within the system however FW updates fixed most issues.
I will go back to the original Hynix NVME SSD for now an try maybe try a Samsung later down the track. The Corsair works great in the NUC however.
My advice is check the supported SSD limits from Dell ( even though going past the SSD capacity limits should be fine ) and possibly find someone on the forums who has upgraded your laptop successfully and stick with that brand combo.
I buy Corsair gear and will continue to buy it as it's quality stuff however in this particular case it hasn't quite worked out.