Dell Precision 5510 Owner's Lounge

Can the machine accommodate a 9.5 mm 2.5" ssd/HD?

 

Nope. Sorry. You need a 7mm drive and you have to have the smaller battery to accommodate the drive.

 

After reinstalling windows with fresh copy I started with ~1300MB/s in read and after couple of updates I'm down to 500MB/s again.
Is there any special driver for these disks?

 

Any way you could check in what mode the PCI-E is operating at. 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, x1, x2, etc. I don't really have experience with PCI-E SSDs, but I've seen graphics card behavior where the PCI-E interface didn't operate in the proper mode.

 

Aida, SSD-z can't even show anything but basic info about disk. This is strange and frustrating.

 

I'm not that surprised given that PCI-e SSDs being "mainstream" is kind of a new thing and for all we know, the drive's controller may not be reporting everything.

 

hey 5510 owners:

I am the only one having problems with keys repeating? I frequently get double 't's, double commas, double 'e's, double 'v's, and other letters. (It's not happening right now as I'm using an external keyboard.)

I had Dell replace the keyboard in my first unit, but that didn't helps. they I had them place the entire laptop, but the second laptop wasn't any better.

yet this issue is not mentioned in any of the XPS15 reviews, and I don't think anyone has complained about it on this board. am I just an outlier? I type 100-120 wpm with a fairly heavy touch.

 

mtalinm -> nope, haven't experienced double letters so far. If second laptop didn't help it might be something with your typing? Are you used to such keyboard designs?
I hate it so far... Writing itself isn't that bad, but F1-F12 spacing is awful (I place my finger where usualy f4 was and I see f3), small up/down/left/down + fn to use page scrolling...
Need time to adapt...

On the other hand I managed to get m.2 sata to the speeds on previous page - read ~1500 / write ~300 which is a joke when Samsung advertises it as high as 1500.

Hope other people can do some benchmarks.

 

I wonder if the new keyboard design is overly sensitive to your typing. We used to be able to change the keyboard Delay and Repeat rates (individual sliders) in earlier versions of Windows but not sure in WinX. It was in Control Panel -then- Keyboard. I'm not sure if it is specific to device (internal keyboard vs USB keyboard) or if the setting is global for all of your keyboards.

 

it's true, I have not really used "island" style keyboards before except for my Surface. maybe it is just my typing style but if that's true then I probably need to return the machine because that's not easy to change.

sad. such an amazing machine otherwise...