OptiPlex XE4 Small Form Factor Setup and Specifications

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Storage

This section lists the storage options on your OptiPlex XE4 Small Form Factor.

Your computer supports one of the following configurations:

One 2.5 inch hard drive
Two 2.5 inch hard drives
One 3.5 inch hard drive
One M.2 2230/2280 solid-state drive (class 35 or class 40)
One M.2 2230/2280 solid-state drive (class 35 or class 40) and one 3.5 inch hard-disk drive
One M.2 2230/2280 solid-state drive (class 35 or class 40) and one 2.5 inch hard-disk drive
One M.2 2230/2280 solid-state drive (class 35 or class 40) and two 2.5 inch hard-disk drives
Two M.2 2230/2280 solid-state drive (class 35 or class 40) and one 3.5 inch hard-disk drive
Two M.2 2230/2280 solid-state drive (class 35 or class 40) and one 2.5 inch hard-disk drive
Two M.2 2230/2280 solid-state drive (class 35 or class 40) and two 2.5 inch hard-disk drives

The primary drive of your computer varies with the storage configuration. For computers:

with a M.2 solid-state drive, the M.2 solid-state drive is the primary drive
without a M.2 drive, either the 3.5-inch hard drive or one of the 2.5-inch hard drives is the primary drive

Table 1. Storage specifications
The following table provides the different storage options available on OptiPlex XE4 Small Form Factor.
Storage type	Interface type	Capacity
2.5-inch, 5400 RPM, hard-disk drive	SATA 3.0	Up to 2 TB
2.5-inch, 7200 RPM, hard-disk drive	SATA 3.0	Up to 1 TB
2.5-inch, 7200 RPM, Opal Self-Encrypting hard-disk drive	SATA 3.0	Up to 500 GB
3.5-inch, 5400 RPM, hard-disk drive	SATA 3.0	Up to 4 TB
3.5-inch, 7200 RPM, hard-disk drive	SATA 3.0	Up to 2 TB
M.2 2230, Class 35 solid-state drive	PCIe NVMe Gen3 x4	256 GB
M.2 2230, Class 35, Opal Self-Encrypting solid-state drive	PCIe NVMe Gen3 x4	256 GB
M.2 2280, Class 40 solid-state drive	PCIe NVMe Gen4 x4	2 TB
M.2 2280, Class 40, Opal Self-Encrypting solid-state drive	PCIe NVMe Gen3 x4	Up to 1 TB