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June 28th, 2020 04:00
Product M6400: Why two HDDs?
Hi. I bought a pr-owned M6400. I've managed to put my OS on Disk 1. But, I just discovered that it has a second HDD of 80Gb capacity (Disk 0). What's the reasoning behind being able to insert two internal disks into the M6400? To put OS on Disk 0 and Data on Disk 1? Or what? Thanks. Rich
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U2CAMEB4ME
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June 28th, 2020 05:00
Welcome to the Dell Community @Richard3945
Your correct.
The best configuration would be having SSD's in both.
Having one for Boot and Apps and the other as "Default" storage.
Something that would also work would be the Boot and Apps drive be an SSD and the "Default" storage drive be an HHD/SSHD.
Sizes would be determined by your specific needs.
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U2
JamesJAB1
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July 2nd, 2020 06:00
The M6X00 series Precision workstations are considered "Desktop Replacement" machines. Because of this there are 2 SATA HDD ports that can either be used for storage.
Here are a few possible configuration options:
HDD 0 = Windows Drive, HDD 1 = Extra Storage
HDD 0 + 1 = Raid 0 for Speed (best done with 2x identical SSDs)
HDD 0 + 1 = Raid 1 for redundancy. (best done with 2x identical SSDs or HDDs)