- Aug 9, 2011
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Dear all,
I have a Dell machine that I use for work (mostly drone related stuff) and I only have a 256 GB NVMe M.2 drive on it. Because I deal with a lot of pictures, I need to expand the drive storage and only use the SSD for booting and doing the heavy lifting (alongside the Nvidia Quadro P4000).
So, the case has three bays that are empty and that seem to accept 3.5" SATA drives. So, I bought a large capacity drive and it spins but it is not showing on the drive manager. I thought that this was because it was not connected to the board via a SATA cable, however, the IT guy told me it is not the issue.
Apparently my PC can only accept M.2 drive? He chatted with DELL who confirmed.
Doubtful, I opened the case and there are 6 SATA slots, two being used. I have no SATA cables so I tried to substitute the HDD to the DVD ROM (and making sure it gets power and connected)... still a no go. Nothing pops up on the drive manager. The HDD works fine as I tested it and because I was told it does not work on my machine, I have it mounted on my other PC.
I have no idea how this works. The M.2 drive is in an aluminum enclosure that plugs into one bay that is different than the others. The three other bays, as aforementioned accept 3.5 and 2.5" drives.
I was able to get the Dell motherboard specs. MT3804 and then 472R4, there is also a qr code DP/N 0X8DXD CN-0X8DXD-FCW00-86F-019V-A00.
Thank you for your help. I stopped building PCs about 10 years ago, so I am not familiar with the new stuff.
Cheers to all,
Hydro
I have a Dell machine that I use for work (mostly drone related stuff) and I only have a 256 GB NVMe M.2 drive on it. Because I deal with a lot of pictures, I need to expand the drive storage and only use the SSD for booting and doing the heavy lifting (alongside the Nvidia Quadro P4000).
So, the case has three bays that are empty and that seem to accept 3.5" SATA drives. So, I bought a large capacity drive and it spins but it is not showing on the drive manager. I thought that this was because it was not connected to the board via a SATA cable, however, the IT guy told me it is not the issue.
Apparently my PC can only accept M.2 drive? He chatted with DELL who confirmed.
Doubtful, I opened the case and there are 6 SATA slots, two being used. I have no SATA cables so I tried to substitute the HDD to the DVD ROM (and making sure it gets power and connected)... still a no go. Nothing pops up on the drive manager. The HDD works fine as I tested it and because I was told it does not work on my machine, I have it mounted on my other PC.
I have no idea how this works. The M.2 drive is in an aluminum enclosure that plugs into one bay that is different than the others. The three other bays, as aforementioned accept 3.5 and 2.5" drives.
I was able to get the Dell motherboard specs. MT3804 and then 472R4, there is also a qr code DP/N 0X8DXD CN-0X8DXD-FCW00-86F-019V-A00.
Thank you for your help. I stopped building PCs about 10 years ago, so I am not familiar with the new stuff.
Cheers to all,
Hydro
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