inspiron 15R SE 7520 msata

Question

Ordered an Inspiron 15R SE 7520 currently in production so hoping to get it this week!.  Looking on the description page it says that the msata drive is an optioal extra but there was no option for this in the ordering process, from looking here is seems a bit pot luck if the laptop will come with the slot on the daughter board or not.  Is there an easy way to tell without opening the case as i dont want to invalidate the warranty on day 1. I want to use the msata ssd as the primary boot and seem to have found out how to do just wondering if anyone has successfully done this?

DELL-Royan S · Answer

Hi Michael,

Welcome to the Community. There is an option where you can add a Msata Drive on the Daughter Board.

Yes you can set your Msata as the primary boot devices, you will need to change the SATA operation setting in the BIOS to AHCI and select it as the primary boot device.

Thank you.

DELL-Royan S · Answer

Hi Michael, Yes the Inspiron 15R SE 7520 does come with a Msata port on the daughter board, incase you need to upgrade in the future. Thank you.

michaelgordon2 · Answer

Thanks Royan, will the daughter board have the port for the msata drive as it seems some do and some dont?

michaelgordon2 · Answer

Thanks Royan, one last thisng can you tell me which msata drives are compatible

DELL-Royan S · Answer

Hi Michael, Below is the chart for MSATA options on your system. Sorry missed out on the chart. Thank you.

YuvarajaMG · Answer

Hi Mr.Rosan, I ordered mSATA daughter board for my laptop, waiting for delivery. The mSATA port is SATA 3? I can get 6 Gb/s speed in it? Thanks in advance. Regards, Yuvaraja Manikandan G

michaelgordon2 · Answer

looks like the link or whatever it is has not been put in

DELL-Royan S · Answer

Hi, Sorry I did not add the chart, I have edited my post. @Yuvaraja, The above chart should answer your question. Thank you.

YuvarajaMG · Answer

Hi Royan,

Sorry that still I see the same chart.

My question is, in my Inspiron 15R SE, this new daugher board (N7JHH)'s mSATA port is connected to SATA3 or SATA2?

That is, after installing SATA3 compatible mSATA drive in this daughter board, will I get SATA3 speed or will be limited to SATA2?

Hope my question will be clear.

Thanks.

Regards,

Yuvaraja Manikandan G

nc123 · Answer

Yuvaraja ,

Did you order the daughter board part N7JHH from Dell US? I've been calling them for the past month without success? They keep saying its out of stock. How did you order it?

nc

YuvarajaMG · Answer

I ordered from Dell Korea.

ejn63 · Answer

Easy way to tell:  if you order the system with the mSATA drive, the board will be there.  If you order the system without it, it will not.

michaelgordon2 · Answer

got my laptop today if I pm my service tag can you tell me for definite that the correct daughter board with the msata port is installed don't want to waste my money buying the drive or opening the case if I don't need too?

michaelgordon2 · Answer

thats the problem, on the ordering page it says its an option so in theory should be there but there are other posts saying that the laptopn either do or do not come with it when it was not included as an option but there was no option to include so i dont know if it has the port

ejn63 · Answer

If you chose the 32G mSATA cache drive option, you'll have the daughterboard.  If you did not, the daughterboard will not be in the system.

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