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DaveUK2011
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March 10th, 2011 08:00
Latitude e6410 and OCZ Vertex2 SSD
Hello all.
Had some experiences with the above and having trawled the OCZ forums I thought I'd get the Dell perspective.
Essentially I have a Latitude e6410 with BIOS A06. I decided to take the plunge into SSD and opted for an OCZ Vertex2 120GB SSD.
To cut a long story short it appears there are a raft of incompatibility issues with the IRRT controllers on the laptops and the Sandforce controller on the drive.
I pressed ahead and installed Windows 7 on the SSD using the default BIOS settings of SATA Mode IRRT, initially the main problem was getting the laptop to acknowledge the existence of the drive, a number of cold boots were necessary before the BIOS picked it up.
It installed correctly and ran very well, but often after shutdown the BIOS simply wouldn't pick up the drive.
Has anyone else had experience adding SSD's to the e6410? I'm told a non Sandforce unit such as a OCZ Onyx or Kingston might be more suitable.
Regards,
Dave.
I have had no issues with The Intel® Solid-State Drive (Intel® SSD) 510 Series.
If you do not disable lots of things the drive can die in as little as a few hours.
Indexing, hibernation, virtual memory, Prefetch, Superfetch, defrag etc.
The 120GB version will cost about $280 while the 250GB version will cost about $580.
BEFORE YOU INSTALL OS
-Change SATA operaetion in bios to AHCI. THIS IS A MUST!
AFTER YOU INSTALL OS
Google search for SSD Tweak Utility. First link should lead you to OCZ forum post from 2 years ago (it's been updated since then). Run the utility.
Run Windows Experience Index
Google search for intel chipset update, use their automatic detection utility to see which driver(s) you need. Download and install them
Reboot
Install Windows Updates
You're good
wbottt70
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Posted August 4th, 2011 19:00
Hi Dave,
This is a little late, but I too had problems with the OCZ Vertex 2 on my e6410, but I understand that it's not limited to just that model - dell laptops, in general apparently. Anyway, my first drive lasted about a week, with no additional tweaks and then froze up. I RMA'd it to new egg, not a new one and that one lasted 2 days. Very frustrated I too trawled the OCZ forums in search of an answer.
I found it!!! On the OCZ forums you will find very specific instructions on what to do for Dell Laptops, they don't gaurantee they work, but they did report that if the instructions were followed in order and to the letter, the problems would disappear. It's since been 2 months since I did that and I've had no issues whatsoever with my OCZ V2. It was more than just changing to AHMCI (from the factory default RAID configuration), I also installed an updated chipset driver from the Intel website, and then also tweaked the Sleep/Hibernate settings as per recommendations. Also I turned off Disk Indexing just for good measure (this was a general recommendation for SSD drives).
So...it's possible! But yes, lookout if you are slapping a OCZv2 drive in a Dell Laptop, chances are you're in for some pain if you don't follow the instructions. They say it has something to do with the Sandforce control used on the V2, and not the SSD or Dell.
Hope this helps someone looking for answers. Been there done that. I was pretty dang frustrated at installing the OS and all my applications, but this time...the 3rd time was the charm. ;-)