OptiPlex Tower 7010 Owner's Manual

Storage

This section lists the storage options on your OptiPlex Tower 7010.

Table 1. Storage MatrixThe following table provides the storage configurations that are supported for your OptiPlex Tower 7010.
Storage	1st 2.5-inch hard drive	2nd 2.5-inch hard drive	Single 3.5-inch hard drive	Single M.2 socket
2.5-inch hard drive	Yes	No	No	No
Dual 2.5-inch hard drive	Yes	Yes	No	No
3.5-inch hard drive	No	No	Yes	No
2.5-inch hard drive + 3.5-inch hard drive	Yes	No	Yes	No
3.5-inch hard drive + 2.5-inch hard drive	No	Yes	Yes	No
M.2 solid state drive + 3.5-inch hard drive	No	No	Yes	Yes
M.2 solid state drive + 2.5-inch hard drive	No	Yes	No	Yes
M.2 solid state drive + Dual 2.5-inch hard drive	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
M.2 16 GB/32 GB + 2.5-inch hard drive	Yes	No	No	Yes
M.2 16 GB/32 GB + Dual 2.5-inch hard drive	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
M.2 16 GB/32 GB + 3.5-inch hard drive	No	No	Yes	Yes
M.2 16 GB/32 GB + 2.5-inch hard drive + 3.5-inch hard drive	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
M.2 16 GB/32 GB + 3.5-inch hard drive + 2.5-inch hard drive	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
M.2 solid state drive	No	No	No	Yes

Table 2. Storage specifications
The following table provides the different storage options available on OptiPlex Tower 7010.
Storage type	Interface type	Capacity
2.5-inch, 7200 RPM, hard-disk drive	SATA 3.0	Up to 1 TB
3.5-inch, 7200 RPM, hard-disk drive	SATA 3.0	Up to 2 TB
M.2 2230 solid state drive	PCIe NVMe, Class 25	Up to 2 TB
M.2 2230 solid state drive	PCIe NVMe, Class 35	Up to 1 TB
M.2 2230 Opal Self-Encrypting solid state drive	PCIe NVMe, Class 35	256 GB
M.2 2280 solid state drive	PCIe NVMe, Class 40	Up to 1 TB
M.2 2280 Opal Self-Encrypting solid state drive	PCIe NVMe, Class 40	Up to 1 TB