E6440 Owners Thread

You can find around some Half Height Mini PCI-E SSD (e.g. Amazon.com : Sandisk SDSA5FK-64G 64GB Half Height U100 mSATAIII SSD Hard Drive : Computer Internal Hard Drives : Computers & Accessories), but I haven't found a letter about the support of mSATA in Latitude E6440 WWAN slot. It's more confusing that mSATA is electrically different from Mini PCI-E slot which is this WWAN slot as I understand it. But I can't figure out if the newest Half Mini Card/ M.2 (NGFF) is also supported?

Has anybody managed to install SSD in WWAN slot???

 

I've found out, that 3rd mini card slot (mini PCI-E) on Latitude E6440 is above WWAN (after removing base corner caps not just the base cover) and it is possible to use Full Height card (e.g. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Genuine-Original-WIRELESS-Broadband-Dell/dp/B00IJ6KYXU).
So physically seems to be no problem to fit in standard mSATA SSD in this slot, but the mSATA support is still questionable for me. I'd not find any straightforward answer and even the Premiere Support has not confirm neither contradict using mSATA SSD in this notebook.

Please, has anybody physically tried mSATA SSD in 3rd mini card slot (mini PCI-E slot above WWAN)?

Thanks for answers in advance...

 

thought I may add to this very small thread. the msata does work. I have a 512gb. I nearly sold it because my next laptop only had m.2 but this was laptop was too good to pass on. I got mine with i7. 900p 8690m 500gb sshd. wwan 4g. wish it had intel ac 7260 dual band but came with intel 6300. might upgrade that too. the other laptop I was very close to buying was hp 840 g1 with 8750m. but this was far cheaper by half the price of its retail and the hp laptop lol. if this laptop had 750m GT or 8850m , despite its thickness it be perfect. or at least complete for a business type laptop.

anyway. I cant seem to find the resolution to drop to 1366x768p or 720p. its 1600x900 or 1024x768 or 800x600. THATS IT! I updated drivers and still no give. whats the best method?

 

Sisqo_uk, did you mean you have installed 512 GB mSATA SSD in Latitude E6440 and it is working?

According to 1366x768 pixels resolution, I don't think that 1600x900 panel supports this resolution because Latitude E6440 can be configured also with 1366x768 panel which is totally different from 1600x900 panel. IMHO it's not really GPU's or it's drivers fault.

 

What drivers are you running? Try the 14.3 beta drivers.

 

im not sure of exact drivers. I loaded the latest ones I think that wasn't beta. but it still gave me the same 3 only options. even when I run through hdmi it gave me 1080p and then it gave me 1560x768 but no 900p option LOL. its weird because when I had my thinkpad with 900p screen. I could drop the res in the same games from 1600x900 to 1366x768 and lower. and when I ran that through hdmi I had all the choices or resolutions from 1080p, 1050, 900 and 768 and lower. so I wouldn't say our hd+ screen doesn't support it. its the drivers that seems not to include it because after that's what controls the resolutions right?

Also I am running a 512gb msata ssd on my e6440 working and booted on as main drive.

 

Thanks Sisqo_uk for confirming working mSATA SSD on E6440, that's crucial info for me 'cause nobody even DELL Premiere Support could confirm it for me. Do you have it inserted in 3rd mini card slot (mini PCI-E) above WWAN (after removing base corner caps not just the base cover)? Can you post link of your 512 GB SSD? I'm pretty curious, if 4 mm heigth SSD (i.e. Samsung 840 EVO mSata 250GB) could fit..

You're right, the GPU drivers control resolution but IMHO according to display's specs (or more-accurately INF file associated). So when you connect another display to HDMI, you'll get new and (mostly) different set of supported resulotions for this display, won't you?

 

No it doesn't go in the mini PCI e even if the connectors work cos of the length of msata is too long. It does work in the wwan slot. Cant add pics yet. But will do as I'm waiting on 4gb ram so when I slot it in I'll take a pic. Which should be around Monday. I didn't need to remove base corner caps because mine came with a 4g wwan card in. So I pulled it out. Put my ssd in and booted with recovery disk and took no time at all to load. So I can boot from either drive. I hunk raid is possible too. It mentions possible options at boot up including raid so I'd imaging if I got a msata to sata caddy and put another in there I could raid it but this laptop is not long term for me to spend even more cash on. This is just till around September when there are new business models where I got a bit more on the gpu in 14 or less lol.

As for the screen resolution. I'm not sure drivers work like that where hdmi makes the laptop recognise additional drivers. Maybe you can do something with inf. to get it but it's been far too many years me messing on that to remember how since I've never needed to. I only did this stuff when I used workstation graphics and wanted to manually install GeForce drivers on them x

 

Thanks Sisqo_uk for your description, I'll be glad to review your pics.
Meanwhile I've found some pics of installing full heigth mini card (in this case also WWAN) to 3rd slot, which is visible only after removing base corner caps not just the base cover as I've mentioned, but maybe accesible without removing base corner caps as you've mentioned

Are this pictures accurate, as you've installed your mSATA SSD?


Please, what brand and model of 512 GB mSATA SSD are you using (I'll appreciate web page link)?

 

in advance of my pics. that second pic is exactly where my ssd is fitted right now which is where the wwan was as in the picture. my base caps are still there. I didn't realise it was a base cap hiding the connectors.

my ssd is sm841 Samsung. I think its pretty much based off the Samsung 840 pro. but its the fastest drive I ever used. especially on windows 8.1 to boot up without password. when you see the logo to the desktop takes like 6-8 seconds usable. I was quite gutted when I had to purchase my next laptop because I thought it had an m.2 slot so it would of been redeemed useless and have to sell and I never even considered this laptop but it was just better in performance than my thinkpad t430 with nvs 5400m.
needed a bit more oomph for bf4. im just going to put a i7 4702mq in from a i7 4600m. kinda of a waste as battlefield is the only game that benefits most from quad. but im taking it with my when I for what ever is my next laptop and just keep the 4600m and put it back in when I want to resell it since I do actually have a full spec e6440 besides the hard drive. but chances are ill prob let it go with the msata if my next choice has m.2 in stead of msata.

the msata review in in this link. its not a direct retail product but you can purchase then online. It is the pm841 instead of sm841 but it is the same ssd with 2mlc instead 3mlc the pm841 has.

http://www.thessdreview.com/our-rev...iew-performance-and-capacity-in-a-client-ssd/