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February 25th, 2019 12:00

5490 HDD + SSD ?

Hello,

 

Got a 5490 with HDD, opened it up to put a SSD PCIe m.2 for a dual boot Win/Linux, they had the brightest idea ever to put the m.2 slot in the same place of the HDD, like it could have been room for both, but they made sure it doesn't, then a completely useless WWAN slot just above (galactic facepalm).

Also tried booting from SD Card with no avail, funniest part is that there is a page on Dell website explaining how to boot from SD, then after some failed attempts I search for more info and see on same website that Dell doesn't handle booting from SD, lmao.

 

Only got surprises, and not good ones.

 

Does Dell know we already are in 2019?

 

If it wouldn't already be set in the finances of the company I would have totally sent it back quicker than it got here and go to HP.

 

This is just plain impressive, do Dell engineers try to be the most unefficient by nature or is it a company requirement?