Latitude 7450 Owners' Thread

Very curious when the next gen of the E7400 series will be here. With a lot of 6th gen Core i out there......I can imagine it won't be too long. I certainly hope there is a PCIe M.2 interface in there for the storage. Would love to see 3x the speeds I see now with my 1TB 850 Pro

 

http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/my...6g-m.2-ngff-ssd-with-fnet-hybridisk-software/

That looks like it might fit the slot.

Looking at the manual https://topics-cdn.dell.com/pdf/latitude-e7450-ultrabook_Owner's Manual_en-us.pdf I see mention of removing both the 2.5 and the msata Im so confused!

Edit: Dell chat suggests the msata cant be used to boot off of just FYI

 

It would fit the slot, but it has a SATA III interface and the slot only supports PCIe.

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try a hammer itll fit

Im curious to see how skylake takes that latitude line

 

Dell chat need to do their homework better. mSATA works fine - that's what I have in my E7450.

You can get a better idea of the storage options by referring to the relevant sections of this. The normal (non-dGPU) E7450 has a 2.5" drive bay that can take drives up to 7mm thick (officially 5mm) but Dell use an mSATA SSD in a frame (called "interposer") rather than a 2.5" SSD (why? - perhaps less weight). The dGPU E7450 has only an mSATA slot.

John

 

Dell clearly doesn't care about selling this business ultrabook line with two disk drives as a "feature". As far as I can remember they never sold a model that included 2 disk drives. Even in the 7440 when they did sell it with an SSD they put an mSATA card into the damn 2.5" bay instead of the working slot that was right there next to it. This leads me to believe that the 2 disk opportunity in 7440 was a fluke and luck of the design rather than a feature (even though many of us use/love it). So I am sure they do not see the change to PCIe as a feature removal when they designed the 7450.

Personally I hope in the 7460 or whatever is next, they ditch 2.5" bay alltogether and go to PCIe 80mm, as this is much faster than the old interface. Yes mSATA works fine, but there are newer, faster options.

 

PCIe may be faster, but it also runs hotter and vulnerable to throttling under heavy workloads. A simple heatsink may be enough to control this problem.

John

 

my e7440 I switched the msata with interposer to the msata slot then I just put in a 7mm rotational drive in the 2.5 slot. It fits so snug it worked but there is no way to secure it so I figure a big business can't just put in a "floating" non secured drive in that bay. It was so tight I don't think they could fit their caddy in it.

e7440 and e7240 the bottom got quite warm for me. Anyone else experience this with an e7450. Wondering if buying an e7450 now is bad timing as the 60 series is coming around the corner soon.

 

This metal caddy is used to secure a hard drive in the E7440 (it also works in the E7450). As you note, the HDD is quite a snug fit and the metal frame just holds it in place.

If you don't have an urent need for a new notebook then I would suggest waiting to see what the next generation offers. If you don't like like the successor then there is likely to still be stock of the E7450.

John

 

I just wanted to chime in and let everyone know that Dell did replace my AUO panel with an LG panel. It was tricky since the Dell tech can't really tell which manufacturer the panel is coming from. The first one they sent out was AUO, but the second was LG.

I do think there's an improvement over the AUO in terms of the "sparkle" effect on the screen, but I will have to work on it a little longer to see if it's effective in reducing the eye fatigue.

I am really pleased with the speed of the Dell warranty service, though!