Dell Precision 5510 Owner's Lounge

Has anyone tried to use the HDD drive password feature on an M.2 drive? I just got a Samsung Pro 960 1 TB NVMe and I can't setup the drive encryption. I did before with my SATA SSD but I can't figure out if this is even possible with an M.2 drive. Without this, does anyone know of a way to enable the whole disk encryption on the Pro 960?

 

5510 has a TPM, so you can use BitLocker?

 

Unigine Valley benchmarks with Fedora 25

Intel 530p: FPS 9.1 / Score 380
Quadro 1000M 'optirun': FPS 21.4 / Score 897
Quadro 1000M 'primusrun': FPS 31.6 / Score 1322

 

I'm not a fan of Bitlocker. Plus Bitlocker is software encryption and I'm looking to enable the disks own hardware encryption.

 

bought the DELL U2717D monitor and connected it to the precision via the D3100 docking station-using it mainly for vfx stuff-performance is good but need to but another 16 gb of ram-the programs i use are very ram thirsty.Any recommendations for the brand i should get?Also does changing the ram by meself voids the warranty?

thanx in advance


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Upgrading the RAM does not void the warranty (but follow the instructions in the manual). Dell's warranty covers whatever was supplied by Dell so in the event of any problem restore the hardware to the as-supplied configuration, confirm that the problem still exists and then call Dell.

Regarding the RAM, any reputable brand should be fine but you might want to check the RAM threads such as this for the XPS15 9550 to see if there are known problems. However, the XPS owners are usually trying to see if they can get faster RAM to work (irrelevant in your case if you are adding, not replacing so the RAM will run at the speed of the slowest module).

John

 

Thank you for the reply,John.Going to get Kingston right now-after a bit of research i came to the conclusion that there isn't really much of a great difference by the most brands.

bests,
Ronnie


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the performance of the precision is a fu*king blast when pumped up to 32 gigs ram.When rendering the fans are a bit noisy but come on-it performs superbly.

Had an option to go for the ECC memory but i don't think it will make much of a difference-it's quite stable as it is anyways


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ECC won't work in this machine anyway. I tried it and the system won't even boot with ECC installed.

 

If you previously only had one RAM module then the memory speed would have been sustantially reduced because it would be running single channel.

John