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looking for help/manual for Dell Storage Adapter Card SSD 2 Slot M.2 PCI-e DPWC300 023PX6 on 5810
I'm hoping my community can help! I have a 5810 which is working great. I bought an older Dell Storage Adapter Card SSD 2 Slot M.2 PCI-e card with part numbers such as: DPWC300 023PX6 NTRCY, but when I search Dell web site, no information is found. It's an older card so I understand it may be archived, but I'm hoping someone else may have information on this. If not, I'll install and see what happens! Also I'm not sure of the specs for the M.2 drives - so any help in that area is appreciated. TYI.
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July 17th, 2024 00:58
There is not much to it. Your storage adapter is a Dell Ultra-Speed Duo. It can support up to two M.2 NVMe SSD and to be used on a PCIe x8 or PCIe x16 slot. Since it's a passive adapter, it requires the motherboard that can support bifurcation, which, the T5810 does natively. You can use the adapter for additional storage and/or for boot drive.
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July 17th, 2024 13:57
thanks much. I don't think this card is the ultra-speed one, but the older lower speed model.
Right now, I'm booting from a normal internal SSD. Would I have to do anything special to select the M.2 NVMe drive as boot? and also install Windows so it would be able to boot from that drive? Do you think it would give the system any boost in performace, or should I just use as storage/programs?
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July 18th, 2024 03:13
All of those adapter cards/drives are passive. Meaning they do not provide the speed. The connected system controller and the generation of the SSD do.
By saying that you are booting for normal SSD, I am guessing normal meant SATA. Upgrading to use NVMe SSD via adapter and installing on PCIe slot will certainly improve the performance of both OS and applications. There is no special settings in BIOS to enable bifurcations. The system will detect the drive(s) automatically.