Precision 3460 Small Form Factor Setup and Specifications

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Storage

This section lists the storage options on your Precision 3460 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 solid-state drive
One M.2 2230 solid-state drive (Class 35) and one 2.5 inch hard drive
One M.2 2230 solid-state drive (Class 35) and two 2.5 inch hard drive
One M.2 2230 solid-state drive (Class 35) and one 3.5 inch hard drive
One M.2 2280 solid-state drive
One M.2 2280 solid-state drive (Class 40) and one 3.5 inch hard drive
One M.2 2280 solid-state drive (Class 40) and one 2.5 inch hard drive
One M.2 2280 solid-state drive (Class 40) and two 2.5 inch hard drives
Two M.2 2280 solid-state drive (Class 40) and one 3.5 inch hard drive
Two M.2 2280 solid-state drive (Class 40) and one 2.5 inch hard drive
Two M.2 2280 solid-state drive (Class 40) and two 2.5 inch hard drives
Three M.2 2280 solid-state drive (Class 40) and one 3.5 inch hard drive
Three M.2 2280 solid-state drive (Class 40) and one 2.5 inch hard drive
Three M.2 2280 solid-state drive (Class 40) and two 2.5 inch hard 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 Precision 3460 Small Form Factor.
Storage type	Interface type	Capacity
2.5-inch, 5400 RPM, hard drive	SATA 3.0	Up to 2 TB
2.5-inch, 7200 RPM, hard drive	SATA 3.0	Up to 1 TB
2.5-inch, 7200 RPM, Opal Self-Encrypting hard drive	SATA 3.0	Up to 500 GB
3.5-inch, 5400 RPM, hard drive	SATA 3.0	Up to 4 TB
3.5-inch, 7200 RPM, hard drive	SATA 3.0	Up to 2 TB
M.2 2280, Class 40 solid-state drive	PCIe NVMe Gen3 x4	Up to 1 TB
M.2 2280, Class 40 solid-state drive	PCIe NVMe Gen4 x4	Up to 4 TB
M.2 2280, Class 40, Opal Self-Encrypting solid-state drive	PCIe NVMe Gen3 x4	Up to 1 TB
M.2 2280, Class 50 solid-state drive	PCIe NVMe Gen3 x4	Up to 1 TB