Precision 3660 Tower Setup and Specifications

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Storage

This section lists the storage options on your Precision 3660 Tower.

M.2 SSD Boot + Optional M.2 SSDs – This configuration enables boot on M.2 NVMe SSD with up to three additional NVMe SSDs. No SATA HDDs are configured in this option.
2.5" SATA HDD Boot + Optional 2.5" SATA HDDs – This configuration enables boot on 2.5" SATA HDD with up to three additional 2.5" SATA HDDs.
NOTE:The above option is being discontinued.
3.5" HDD Boot + Optional 3.5" HDDs – This configuration enables boot on 3.5" HDD with up to one additional 3.5" HDD.
NOTE:The above option is being discontinued.
M.2 SSD Boot + Optional M.2 SSDs + 2.5" SATA HDD + Optional 2.5" SATA HDDs – This configuration enables boot on M.2 NVMe SSD with up to three additional NVMe SSDs, one 2.5" SATA HDD and up to three additional 2.5" SATA HDDs.
M.2 SSD Boot + Optional M.2 SSD + 3.5" SATA HDD + Optional 3.5" SATA HDDs – This configuration enables boot on M.2 NVMe SSD with up to three additional NVMe SSDs, one 3.5" SATA HDD and one additional 3.5" SATA HDD.
M.2 SSD Boot + Optional SSDs + Front-accessible 2.5" SATA HDD + Optional 2.5" SATA HDDs - This configuration enabled boot on M.2 NVMe SSD with up to three additional NVMe SSDs, one front-accessible 2.5" SATA HDD and two additional 2.5" SATA HDDs
M.2 SSD Boot + Optional SSDs + Front-accessible 3.5" SATA HDD + Optional 3.5" SATA HDDs - This configuration enabled boot on M.2 NVMe SSD with up to three additional NVMe SSDs, one front-accessible 3.5" SATA HDD and up to two additional 3.5" SATA HDDs
RAID 0/1/5/10 available.

NOTE:M.2 NVMe SSD cannot build RAID disk with any SATA drive.

NOTE:Precision 3660 motherboard can support up to two M.2 2230 NVMe SSDs or up to three M.2 2280 NVMe SSDs.

Table 1. Storage specifications
The following table provides the different storage options available on Precision 3660 Tower.
Storage type	Interface type	Capacity
2.5-inch, 7200 RPM, hard-disk drive	SATA 3.0	Up to 1 TB
2.5-inch, 7200 RPM, FIPS Self Encrypting Opal 2.0, hard-disk drive	SATA 3.0	500 GB
3.5-inch, 5400 RPM, hard-disk drive	SATA 3.0	4 TB
3.5-inch, 7200 RPM, hard-disk drive	SATA 3.0	Up to 2 TB
3.5-inch, 7200 RPM, Enterprise hard-disk drive	SATA 3.0	Up to 8 TB
M.2 2230 solid-state drive	PCIe NVMe Gen3 x4, Class 35	256 GB
M.2 2230 solid-state drive	PCIe NVMe Gen4 x4, Class 35	256 GB
M.2 2280 solid-state drive	PCIe NVMe Gen4 x4, Class 40	Up to 4 TB
M.2 2280 Opal Self-Encrypting solid-state drive	PCIe NVMe Gen3 x4, Class 40	Up to 1 TB
M.2 2280 Opal Self-Encrypting solid-state drive	PCIe NVMe Gen4 x4, Class 40	Up to 1 TB