Hands on Dell Precision 7710

You can do :
1 x standard SATA drive (2.5", up to 9.5 mm thick)
2 x M2 SSD (SATA or NVME protocole).

You are limited to 3 drives in the 7710.

 

Do you know if one able to use an msata drive in the wwan slot?

 

Not as much room for drives on the 7510/7710.
7510 has one 2.5" SATA and one M.2 PCIe SSD.
7710 has one 2.5" SATA and two M.2 PCIe SSD.

 

so what's guys ?? you mean 7510 and 7710 no difference in storage?
and so, for example, now, in my 6700 I'm using the two crucial in sign both in raid0 that I could not use in 7710, since I can raid0 only M2 drive ?!
can't understand dell...

 

They are different only in the number of M.2 PCIe SSDs you can install.

 

yes but, because of M.2 size, maybe (I say maybe), they could have tried to keep 2 x M.2 space (like now) and 2 x 2.5" (since, for sure, is cheaper find "standard" SSD or also standard HDD). And, anyway, they lost 1 x 2.5" (ex DVD room) that in M6700 you could (like me, now) use like 4th device...

 

from dell 7710 general informations:

what are the last two CPU compared to the first two Xeon ?

 

I'd like to maximize the about of 7710 SSD storage while also choosing the fastest available. Given all the choices, what combination of drives would fit this requirement? I know the 7710 limits to one 2.5" SATA and two M.2 PCIe SSD so I guess what I'm really struggling with is how to differentiate between which are fastest given the various options. Thanks!

 

PCIe has the capability for much higher bandwidth than SATA (which is one of the reasons that you are seeing these instead of mSATA mini-cards now). If you want fast SSDs, look at those.
As a starting point, you can see some drives here and the max read and write speed is listed next to each one. Note that there is quite a variance in speeds between the drives. 2.5" SATA drives will max out around 550 MB/s.

 

...which got announced in the past couple of days. Xeon e3-1545M (as leaked previously in some HP collateral) and e3-1575M. Exact street date unknown, which of the Precisions will get them is unknown. The 128MB of eDRAM cache may have some advantage even if you've got a big dGPU.

As best I can tell:
* 7710 is 1x 2.5" SATA3, and 2x m.2 SATA3 or PCI-E.
* 7510 is 1x 2.5" SATA3 and 1x m.2 SATA3 or PCI-E

Yes, it's quite a drop from the older Precisions. OTOH, the PCI-E SSDs are fast enough that a RAID no longer makes any sense from a speed perspective, and while Dell doesn't offer them, there are 2TB SSDs for the 2.5" drive bay -- if money were no object, it's hard to see a 1TB PCI-E drive in the m.2 slot and an aftermarket 2.5" 2TB SSD in the other not being enough, or on the 7710, 2x 1TB PCI-E if you need either the data redundancy or that much really fast space.