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7010, 2012, NVMe support
I've been waiting for Optiplex7010 BIOS to support NVMe bootable disk... I just would like to know if this is going to be avaliable in a near future... we have 15 of these 7010 and we want to upgrade the HDD to NVMe.
Until now this is not possible... I can have a NVMe disk, and it works fine in windows10 but not a bootable one, because there is no support on BIOS.
When will this be avaliable (NVMe bootable support)?
Paulo R
Tesla1856
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August 21st, 2018 08:00
If I'm interpreting this thread correctly, sounds like you are waiting for something that will never happen. :Smile:
Since these machines are likely still acceptably suited for your use-case, I suggest ...
You go ahead and install bootable SATA-3/600 SSDs in them and move forward. The machines will then boot and load programs very fast. They will also be generally "snappier" in general use. Compared to spinning-platter-drives (HDD), even SATA-based SSDs are MUCH FASTER (like 5 times faster).
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August 21st, 2018 03:00
Paulo_Res,
Unfortunately, I have no information on when or if a bios rev is coming for the OptiPlex 7010. We do not get any information on when bios revs come out for systems. You will just need to keep checking back on the support page for the 7010.
speedstep
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August 21st, 2018 04:00
The Current Models are 4 generations newer aka 7050. There isn't likely to ever be any bios revisions to support 2018 PCI-E crosspoint SSD Bootable storage. These models are well past the 5 year life cycle. 2013 models are now at the end of the 5 year life cycle. This was added to the 100 series chipsets. Ivy Bridge Chipset was not designed to support NVME PCI-E booting started with Haswell. The first commercially available NVMe chipsets were released by Integrated Device Technology(89HF16P04AG3 and 89HF32P08AG3) in August 2012.
The first NVMe drive, Samsung's XS1715 enterprise drive, was announced in July 2013. Subsequently Microsoft added native support for NVMe to Windows 8.1 August 27, 2013. Windows 8.0 and Earlier do not have Native booting support. 8.0 windows is End Of Life End of Support.
Early 2012 was the introduction of Secure Boot UEFI 2.3.1
NVME Booting Specifications and Booting
1.0e (Jan. 2013)
1.1b (July 2014)
1.2 (Nov. 2014)
1.2a (Oct. 2015)
1.2b (June 2016)
1.2.1 (June 2016)
1.3 (May 2017)
1.3a (Oct. 2017)
1.3b (May 2018)
1.3c (May 2018)
Core I7 I5 I3
2008 Nehalem microarchitecture (1st generation)
2010 Westmere microarchitecture (1st generation)
2011 Sandy Bridge microarchitecture (2nd generation)
2012 Ivy Bridge microarchitecture (3rd generation)
2013 Haswell microarchitecture (4th generation)
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/optix/en/optiplex_7010_technical_guidebook.pdf
Year
OptiPlex
Precision
Latitude 15
Latitude 14
Latitude 13
Latitude 12
2017
5050
5580
54,807,480
528,952,857,280
2016
T3420, T3620
5570
5470, 7470
7370
7270
2015
5040, 7040
5550
5450, 7450
7250
2014
7020
T5810, T7810, T7910
2013
9020
T1700, T3610, T5610, T7610
6540
7440, E6440
7240
2012
7010, 9010
T1650, T3600, T5600, T7600
E6530
E6430
E6330
E6230
2011
790, 990
T1600
E6520
E6420
E6320
E6220
2010
780, 980
T1500
E6510
E6410
E4310, 13
2009
760, 960
T3500, T5500, T7500
E6500
E6400
E4300
E4200
2008
755
T7400
2007
745
T3400, T5400
D830
D630
D430
2006
GX620
390, 490
D820
D620, D520
D420
2005
GX280
380
D810
D610, D510
D410
2004
GX270, 170L
360
D505
D400
2003
D800
D600, D500
2002
GX260
C640
C400
2001
GX240
330
hai_p_nguyen
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May 6th, 2019 10:00
I don't have an Optiplex, but I have a Dell Precision T3600 and a PowerEdge T320.
Both have the "older" UEFI that do not directly boot OSes on SSD NVMe M.2 on PCIe x4 riser card.
Both can do UEFI boot of OSes on SSDs connected to SATA2 (T320) or SATA3 (T3600).
However you can do UEFI boot an USB (FAT32) with REFIND which then boots OSes on SSD NVMe M.2 on PCIe riser card connect to a PCIe x4 slot.
Please search for "Precision T5600 PCIe boot success".
paul_1011
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December 27th, 2021 00:00
Hi @Paulo_Res
Dell will never update the BIOS, but you can do it yourself. I have done it and it works great. I've written the procedure up here:
How to install and boot from an NVMe SSD on a Dell OptiPlex 7010
It's pretty easy to do and the speed increase is amazing.