windows 10 on Dell T7500 workstation

[DMMsystems]

Does the Dell Precision T7500 support Windows 10?
I just purchased an old Dell Precision T7500 with 2 Xeon x7670 processors and I was wondering if anyone has experience running Windows 10 on this machines I had a quick look on the Dell's website under the support> downloads>BIOS and it states no drives for Windows 10. I'm also planning to configure the 2 existing Hard Drives in RAID 0 to make it a bit faster to overcome the STAII 3GB/s limitation or upgrade the two hard drives to 2 cheap SSDs in RAID 0.

 

[velocityg4]

If you want to get full performance of the SSD. Consider a bootable SATA III/SSD card. With at least a PCIe 2.0 x2 interface.

The Apricorn works quite well. It's not the cheapest.
https://www.amazon.com/Apricorn-Velocity-Extreme-Performance-VEL-SOLO-X2/dp/B0090IA3GY/

This card supports RAID 0/1/10. Uses a PCIe x4 lanes. It supports two M.2 SATA SSD and has two SATA III ports.
https://www.amazon.com/Ableconn-PEXM2-2SA-SSD-HDD-Controller-Express/dp/B01N79SI9Q/

As for drivers. Intel has not updated the drivers for those chipsets. The generic Microsoft Windows drivers do work for the chipset. If you want you can also download the latest drivers from Intel for that computers chipset for Windows 7. Then unpack them with a program like 7Zip. Afterward go into device manager and have it look for updated drivers for the SATA controller in that folder. That's what I did with Windows 10 and my Intel 7 series chipset. Although I didn't note any performance difference between the Intel driver and MS driver.

 

[DMMsystems]

If you want to get full performance of the SSD. Consider a bootable SATA III/SSD card. With at least a PCIe 2.0 x2 interface.

The Apricorn works quite well. It's not the cheapest.
https://www.amazon.com/Apricorn-Velocity-Extreme-Performance-VEL-SOLO-X2/dp/B0090IA3GY/

This card supports RAID 0/1/10. Uses a PCIe x4 lanes. It supports two M.2 SATA SSD and has two SATA III ports.
https://www.amazon.com/Ableconn-PEXM2-2SA-SSD-HDD-Controller-Express/dp/B01N79SI9Q/

As for drivers. Intel has not updated the drivers for those chipsets. The generic Microsoft Windows drivers do work for the chipset. If you want you can also download the latest drivers from Intel for that computers chipset for Windows 7. Then unpack them with a program like 7Zip. Afterward go into device manager and have it look for updated drivers for the SATA controller in that folder. That's what I did with Windows 10 and my Intel 7 series chipset. Although I didn't note any performance difference between the Intel driver and MS driver.

apparently my Dell T7500 has a Intel 5520 chipset and the motherboard does not allow UEFI or boot up for PCIe. are you using the Apricorn - Velocity Solo x1 as a bootable SATA card adapter on your machine? are you runnig Windows 10 on a Dell T7500?

 

[BMoshier]

Does the Dell Precision T7500 support Windows 10?
I just purchased an old Dell Precision T7500 with 2 Xeon x7670 processors and I was wondering if anyone has experience running Windows 10 on this machines I had a quick look on the Dell's website under the support> downloads>BIOS and it states no drives for Windows 10. I'm also planning to configure the 2 existing Hard Drives in RAID 0 to make it a bit faster to overcome the STAII 3GB/s limitation or upgrade the two hard drives to 2 cheap SSDs in RAID 0.

Hello,

I have a Dell Precision T7500 with 2 Xeon X5680 processors, 48GB RAM and have been running Windows 10 Pro x64, since I purchased it about 2.5 years ago.

The boot drive is a Samsung 840 EVO 1TB and the data drive is a Seagate 2TB drive. Video is a NVIDIA GTX 970 and I use a PCI card to provide USB 3.0 front and internal.

As for breaking the STAII 3GB/s limitation, I would recommend you consider a PERC PCI card, specifically the H700. The H700 supports 6GB/s.

Getting support from Microsoft is a bear and an half and totally depends upon who you reach. The Creator Update is cr*p and I wanted to get rid of it. One Microsoft Tier 2 person was happy to help me. Two others told me - NO SUPPORT - as Dell never certified the T7500 beyond Windows 7.

Until Creator Update, I never had any issues with Windows 10 on the T7500! Windows 10 has been great until the Creator Update. (Don't talk about rolling back, as the last Microsoft employee who "helped" me applied the Creator Update in a manner preventing rollback!!!!!!!!!

 

[colthorp_cross]

If you want to get full performance of the SSD. Consider a bootable SATA III/SSD card. With at least a PCIe 2.0 x2 interface.

The Apricorn works quite well. It's not the cheapest.
https://www.amazon.com/Apricorn-Velocity-Extreme-Performance-VEL-SOLO-X2/dp/B0090IA3GY/

This card supports RAID 0/1/10. Uses a PCIe x4 lanes. It supports two M.2 SATA SSD and has two SATA III ports.
https://www.amazon.com/Ableconn-PEXM2-2SA-SSD-HDD-Controller-Express/dp/B01N79SI9Q/

As for drivers. Intel has not updated the drivers for those chipsets. The generic Microsoft Windows drivers do work for the chipset. If you want you can also download the latest drivers from Intel for that computers chipset for Windows 7. Then unpack them with a program like 7Zip. Afterward go into device manager and have it look for updated drivers for the SATA controller in that folder. That's what I did with Windows 10 and my Intel 7 series chipset. Although I didn't note any performance difference between the Intel driver and MS driver.

apparently my Dell T7500 has a Intel 5520 chipset and the motherboard does not allow UEFI or boot up for PCIe. are you using the Apricorn - Velocity Solo x1 as a bootable SATA card adapter on your machine? are you runnig Windows 10 on a Dell T7500?

 

[colthorp_cross]

If you want to get full performance of the SSD. Consider a bootable SATA III/SSD card. With at least a PCIe 2.0 x2 interface.

The Apricorn works quite well. It's not the cheapest.
https://www.amazon.com/Apricorn-Velocity-Extreme-Performance-VEL-SOLO-X2/dp/B0090IA3GY/

This card supports RAID 0/1/10. Uses a PCIe x4 lanes. It supports two M.2 SATA SSD and has two SATA III ports.
https://www.amazon.com/Ableconn-PEXM2-2SA-SSD-HDD-Controller-Express/dp/B01N79SI9Q/

As for drivers. Intel has not updated the drivers for those chipsets. The generic Microsoft Windows drivers do work for the chipset. If you want you can also download the latest drivers from Intel for that computers chipset for Windows 7. Then unpack them with a program like 7Zip. Afterward go into device manager and have it look for updated drivers for the SATA controller in that folder. That's what I did with Windows 10 and my Intel 7 series chipset. Although I didn't note any performance difference between the Intel driver and MS driver.

Hello, I have a Dell t7500 with windows 10 64bit Pro. I have the Legacy BIOS with no option to change this. Is the Ableconn-PEXM2-2SA-SSD-HDD-Controller-Express/dp/B01N79SI9Q/, M.2 Controller card Bootable? I have a 2nd gen PCIexpress slot, with a ASMEDIA ASM106 chipset controller card, I installed a MSATA and a Samsung SSD in the SATA 3 port. My BIOS sees the card as mass storage and externalSATA, but not available in the boot menu. The Windows 10 DVD will format the drive in the PCIEXPRESS card, but would not load to it.
If Ableconn-PEXM2-2SA-SSD-HDD-Controller-Express/dp/B01N79SI9Q/ can raid two M.2 drives in a stripe and boot, that would be excellent.