M6600 Owners Thread

So many drives, I like it (not that my M6700 is any different now). Regardless of whether it's SATA II or III, triple SSD is still awesome.

 

Scott_RC-TEK where in M6600 is External empty port 5 and what can be connected there?

 

My Samsung 840 PRO came today. Any tips and moving my data from my 830 SSD to the 840 PRO SSD? How is Norton Ghost? Also, and info on setting up the FDE?

 

I had a hell of a time with my ssd move. I would suggest trying ghost and if you have issues to boot then you might need to use something else such as wd program. That is as long as you have a wd drive installed.

For me norton would not move a system partition for dell boot manager and the system would not boot.

 

I really like and use Paragon. It just works and is very efficient. I can back up an entire drive and write the image to a new drive in less than 10 minutes.

Scott-

 

Thanks...I used it and it worked just fine. How does one setup the Full Disk Encryption feature on the 840 Pro SSD? The Magician software doesn't have anything about it. And there are no docs/PDFs about by Samsung that I could fine.

 

Do you guys find Paragon is superior to Acronis? Last time I tried to boot into a Acronis disk in the M6600 it would not load at all.

 

huhuhu... need 1 more SSD

 

Acronis is OK most of the time, but I feel it is not as stable as Paragon. I experienced a rare issue with Acronis using excessive system resources on occasion, but Paragon is fluid and "proper". Those Germans know their software.

I hope that answers your question.

Scott-

 

In the M6600 BIOS under "Security", you will see the option to password each compatible drive. With the 840 Pro, setting the drive password in the BIOS tells the SSD to also enable the FDE at the hardware level so you will be double protected without the loss of performance. That is a nice side effect of the 256bit AES encryption being controller based and not software based.

If your drive is powered up and the correct drive password is not used, it will not respond.
If your drive is removed and attempted to be read elsewhere, it will not respond.
If your drive is brute force attacked, it will not respond.

You are secure - at least for the 3.6 years it would take for a dedicated supercomputer to decrypt the password data (unless there is a secret NSA backdoor).

Scott-