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February 18th, 2018 21:00
Aurora-R7, adding additional SSD (SATA) storage
I'm considering adding more storage to my new-ish R7. Dell has told me that Samsung 860Pro and Evo drives are not supported with the R7.
From Dell Technical Support: "Unfortunately Samsung EVO and Samsung PRO SSDs are not compatible with any Alienware systems due to the fact that their firmware does not include validation for our OEM BIOS and motherboards; any other brand and make of SSD should be fully compatible though."
They do support the 850 series drives though.
How much difference can there be?
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hrgreen
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March 2nd, 2018 16:00
I don't know that. I remember reading that the 961 has a new "Polaris" controller.
Tesla1856
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March 3rd, 2018 13:00
1. One
2. I like to use Macrium Reflect. It will do "bare-metal restores" and they have a free version. A tip is to turn-on "Verify Image after Creation". You don't clone ... you Image it to a file and then Restore.
3. Yeah, a 4tb spinner should work (if you do it right). However, that's a lot of data to lose all-at-once if/when it crashes so I suggest you keep it backed-up.
Berlines
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March 3rd, 2018 18:00
Tesla1856:
Thank you so much...
JH1999
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March 16th, 2018 09:00
I saw NMVe mentioned several times in this thread. Support, however, told me that NMVe is neither supported by the mainboard nor by the 256 GB SSD provided (M.2-PCIe).
Is it now supported? I'm a little confused right now.
Tesla1856
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March 16th, 2018 11:00
You will have to ask them what they meant.
https://www.google.com/search?q=are+all+pcie+nvme
How does it affect you? What are you trying to do?
JH1999
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March 27th, 2018 07:00
I do have an NVMe SSD here, so I wanted to know if NVMe is generally supported by the motherboard
Tesla1856
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March 27th, 2018 09:00
Yes, definitely. Read my posts in this thread.
Even Eimy shows it is in 2nd post of this thread.
JH1999
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March 27th, 2018 10:00
Thanks for your reply. Then the support was either misinformated or misunderstood me
Thief
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July 6th, 2018 18:00
Hello can you please tell me which ssd this is
400-AVIX
Thief
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July 6th, 2018 18:00
Hi can you please tell me which ssd this is i cant seem to find it anywhere and this is the part number from dell
400-AVIX
Thief
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July 6th, 2018 18:00
Thief
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July 6th, 2018 19:00
I also am pretty sure I never set my name to thief? And I cant even find anywhere to change it on the options
tsranktank
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July 29th, 2018 16:00
I added an 860 EVO SATA 6Gb/s to my Aurora R7.
wilcreatives
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November 14th, 2018 10:00
Did you need to buy an extra cable or was there an extra inside the tower?
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November 26th, 2018 19:00