As far as I understand, I can buy the model with only HDD and buy separately a good ssd like the 970 evo, and put it in there with no problems, right? just will have to reinstall windows on the ssd?
It appears the unit only has x2 PCIe 3.0. You might check for yourself to confirm. The two lanes on an NVMe drive may still give better performance than a SATA SSD.
I do not have any experience with the Optane memory or how it might be effected.
Where did you get the idea that the Aurora R7 M.2 slot only has 2 PCIe lanes? It would make no sense for Dell to not have all 4 lanes in a high end machine.
It also conflicts with the results in the Aurora R7 with Samsung 970 EVO youtube video at the end of the other thread I linked to. 3532/2503 sequential read/write in CrystalDiskMark shown at the end is full PCIe 3.0 x4 speed.
Techgee
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November 12th, 2018 16:00
You might want to take a look at the Aurora R7 nvme/Optane? thread, if you haven't already.
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As far as I understand, I can buy the model with only HDD and buy separately a good ssd like the 970 evo, and put it in there with no problems, right? just will have to reinstall windows on the ssd?
Techgee
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November 12th, 2018 17:00
That about sums it up. Probably the same on the new Aurora R8 version.
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It appears the unit only has x2 PCIe 3.0. You might check for yourself to confirm. The two lanes on an NVMe drive may still give better performance than a SATA SSD.
I do not have any experience with the Optane memory or how it might be effected.
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November 18th, 2018 08:00
Where did you get the idea that the Aurora R7 M.2 slot only has 2 PCIe lanes? It would make no sense for Dell to not have all 4 lanes in a high end machine.
It also conflicts with the results in the Aurora R7 with Samsung 970 EVO youtube video at the end of the other thread I linked to. 3532/2503 sequential read/write in CrystalDiskMark shown at the end is full PCIe 3.0 x4 speed.