Hands on Dell Precision 7710

Looking at your sig, it looks like one of your PCIe drives for the RAID 0 is in the 2.5" SATA drive slot with an adapter. Maybe that is limiting the speed to the SATA interface? Does that bat run at the same speed as the M.2 PCIe slots?

 

Has anyone updated to the new (21 March) BIOS for the 7710 - 1.4.8? I believe I remember others having serious issues with their displays and something to do with switchable graphics with this update. My new system has the 29 February update 1.3.12 and I'm reluctant to update.

 

I am one of the lucky ones that updated without issue. I was on 1.3.12. I made sure the systems was not docked (TB15) and power plugged in. I also had the firmware updated on the Thunderbolt and Control vault before I did the bios update.

 

Back in the very beginning of the discussion on the 7000 series it was adamantly stated by Dell-Mano that the Interposer connected to a dual purpose connector - i.e. both SATA and PCIe so I am sure that the correct PCIe interface is there - when I was setting up RAID it only listed PCIe RAID and not SATA RAID. It wouldn't make sense for Dell to sell an expensive PCIe drive and then have it run at SATA speeds.

 

ok. was just guessing. Out of curiosity, did you or can you run speed test on the individual drives not in a RAID array?

 

I have all updated firmware on Thunderbolt systems. I was sort of surprised they didn't install the new BIOS since installation date was April 4 but perhaps it takes awhile for updates to filter down to the new system builds.

 

I will try but I am getting the same reading on the single OS drive. It really doesn't bother me that much since these drives are still far and above the requirements for any video grading/editing program I might use. I dowloaded a 1 TB 4K video files from the Sandisk 3.1 SSD through the Thunderbolt connection to the Video Drive (RAID0) and took about 18 minutes - ran at 700 all the way.

 

I think mine came with 1.3.10 and 1.3.12 was available. I updated to 1.3.12 the day I got it.

Do you have the latest version of the Crystal DiskMark. I had both an older portable version and current portable version and inadvertently ran the older one and got poor results. Then I realized I ran the older version instead of current.

 

I thought i ran the most recent version on their website but I did it so quickly I'm not sure.

BTW - Dell Precision Optimizer? Useful utility or not?

 

Well this is a new issue from the outlet.... I received another system that would not boot - lights just flashed. Figured in might be an unseated ram module since it would not even go to the bios (have had this happen before). Low and behold the Dell outlet shipped a system with no ram installed.... Hello Dell, are you even testing these when they come back?????