Dell precision T7610

[corporalcuddles]

I have the same issue. Not sure which direction to go with improving the disk performance.

The spec sheet for the T7610 mentions support for a Micron P320h PCIe SSD. However, I can't seem to find anyone selling this drive in the UK, which I imagine is due to it being quite an old drive (mid 2014). I wonder if there is a more recent or equivalent drive ?

From what I am reading online i'm not going to be able to use the samsung 960 pro.

 

[The Paladin]

1) the Micron P320h PCIe SSD was 700GB PCIE card you plugged into your system, that is old tech to a point (since M.2 is a plug into motherboard type as well just not using PCIE anymore)
2) just get a SATA SSD drive. and be done with it, or if you want to use an M.2 Drive then get a PCIE card that supports M/2 Drives.
PCI Express 4x to M Key M.2 SSD Slot Adapter For M.2 PCI-E SSD (NGFF) SSD 2230 2242 2260 2280 Card M Key PCI-E X4 NG for 14.95 and get a M.2 to plug into it.

 

[corporalcuddles]

1) the Micron P320h PCIe SSD was 700GB PCIE card you plugged into your system, that is old tech to a point (since M.2 is a plug into motherboard type as well just not using PCIE anymore)
2) just get a SATA SSD drive. and be done with it, or if you want to use an M.2 Drive then get a PCIE card that supports M/2 Drives.
PCI Express 4x to M Key M.2 SSD Slot Adapter For M.2 PCI-E SSD (NGFF) SSD 2230 2242 2260 2280 Card M Key PCI-E X4 NG for 14.95 and get a M.2 to plug into it.

Thanks for your suggestion.

OK, so I already have an SSD. A Crucial M550 1TB drive but I want to increase the performance of the workstation by using PCIe.

The CPU E5-2697 and memory PC3-14900R 1866 are waiting for the hard disk. The hard disk is the bottleneck.

Its not the adaptor that I am worried about, its what hard drive to put into it, which will boot successfully in the T7610. From what I am reading, the samsungs' wont work as the use the NVMe. The likes of Samsung 960 pro and the evo.

 

[william p]

Look in the owners manual. All Dell workstations I've seen have RAID support built in. Just RAID1 a couple of small SSDs and you should be OK.

 

[corporalcuddles]

You think that would give me the same performance as a PCIe SSD?

Wouldn't the "old tech" mentioned in Paladin's post e.g. the Micron P320h PCIe SSD give me better performance than raiding a few SATA III drives?

I do have two crucial m550 1tb drives.
One is being used as second drive in a HP Elitebook, which I guess I could commandeer.

 

[william p]

I don't know if it would equal a PCIe but it should almost double the speed of what you have now. Since you already own the parts why not give it a try.
It may depend to some extent on what level of SATA you have. 2X3GB/sec. SATA2 =6GB/sec. SATA3, so SATA3 might not improve as much as SATA2 since it's already faster . You can Google various RAID SSD articles and see what they have to offer.