Precision M6400 Owner's Lounge *Part 2*

Haha, pliers, liked that!...not the best friend of hard discs so far!
If you Google the 'Secure Erase' for SSDs you'll find lot of info and even some software for this, like HDDErase etc...However, I would always trust the Anandtech forums, they are much more into SSD's...

 

I've read so much about HDDErase and pretty much every word written about it in Anandtech and it's still like doing a moon shot. Gotta boot into something called 'compatibility mode' and that's just the start. Gparted is also an option but no less complicated. Got momentarily excited hearing, what's the name of Perfect Disks main competitor?.....having some new SSD cleanup utilities and that turned out to be BS. Just a defrag company trying to be relevant thinking they have some high spending new demographic to exploit. Found something called MFT that sounded perfect until more study and you need antigravity boots or something while you go through a 15 page set of instructions that must have at least one instruction to amaze anyone. The "stand on your head and plug in your external SATA drive in the last 4 seconds of the boot" got me scratching my head. And that's the easy part! You'd think with half a million outfits selling the things someone would have come up with an idiots tool to erase the damn pages. But no joy there, time to fire up the reactor and see what I can do with that.
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Precision Covet | QX9300 | 4GB | 64GB Samsung SSD & 320GB Seagate | XP Pro 32bit & Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

 

lol..let us know how you get on with
I couldn't be arsed really..the hours upon hours you've spent on this will not be regained by your SSD drive booting up 10 seconds faster

I'll see what's out there for secure erase and get back to you.

 

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=264090

secure erase..

 

M6500 introduced:

http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/precision-m6500?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04

 

the white led monitor what adobe coverage has ??

the rgbled 100%...and the white ??

 

White LEDs mostly lose out in the green end of the spectrum.

Maybe someone here has a custom profile for a WLED panel? Coordinates of the primaries can be extracted from a profile.

 

BTW I placed an order for a HP Envy 15 last week. In the end, portablity and cost does matter to me. I'll have to get a good desktop display instead. Seeing specs and pricing for the M6500 today, I feel that I made the right choice for my needs and budget. It is a bit of a gamble WRT quality though, HP has some work to do to get that BIOS in order.

 

Does your SSD support TRIM? If it does and you can manage to at least do some triming with Windows 7, there is no need to investigate more deeply, it should clean and keep your SSD performant. Thing is, that Win 7 is very new and has not entirely finalized the Trim utility from support and operative side,on the other hand the various SSD firmwares either they do not support TRIM or will support it in the near future with new FW versions (for those SSD's that can be updated...).What can I say,it is still...early, must wait till they make things better.Being at the edge of the technology brings some side effects too

 

new A09 bios up at dell downloads........

Fixes/Enhancements:
1. Updated Computrace OPROM.
2. Removed HDD Acoustic support.
3. Fixed issue that unable to set Asset Tag when Admin password set.
4. Enhanced INT 19h support.