So, I setup the new HP model for her, installing Kubuntu 14.10 on it (a linux distro using an Ubuntu base with a KDE Desktop), since I don't want her using the Win 8.1 config it shipped with for a variety of reasons, like avoiding Windows Update problems, malware, adware, etc. She didn't want to hurt his feelings (as it was a gift he gave her after selling a home), so she wanted me to make it work for her (and her old Dell was starting to have some issues with some of it's keys, and would have needed a new keyboard soon).
This one (it was a gift from my wife's brother, not a machine that I would have purchased with our own money):
The only reason she's not still using it is because her brother gave her a new laptop as a gift recently (an HP model that I really don't like very much). It still works (it's sitting opened up and running, plugged into an outlet in my office about 5 feet from where I'm sitting right this minute). She used that same laptop for over 7 years with no repairs needed. Support for four storage devices: one 2.5" drive in easy eject drive bay one 2.5" drive in internal bay one 2.5" in optical bay caddy one solid state Mini-Card.īut, even if you don't get into the higher end configs in the business lineup, Dell has offered a number of other models with multi-drive support for a number of years, even in some of their consumer models.įor example, I bought my wife a refurbished Dell Inspiron (Inspiron models are their low end consumer line) 17 from Dell Outlet in December 2007 that has two internal 2.5" Drive bays + an optical drive that I could use a caddy with for a third 2.5" drive if I wanted to. Unless you've never bothered to look at what Dell is selling in that market niche, it's amazing you didn't know you could get a Dell Laptop like that.ĭell Storage Options (and many vendors offer mSATA cards now, including Samsung, Crucial, Intel, Plextor and more with Dell using Samsung mSATA models). The current Dell model that's closest to your 17" ZBook is the Dell Precision M6800, which officially supports a 4 drive configuration - using what they call a Mini Card for one drive (which is just an mSATA SSD model that plugs into a slot on the motherboard) two 2.5" drives in it's internal drive bays, and a 2.5" drive in the optical bay if you prefer to get a caddy for it versus an optical drive.ĭell supports that type of 4 drive config (one mSATA, three 2.5" drives), including support for RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5 setups. Their Precision Mobile workstations (the equivalent of the HP ZBook line), has offered models supporting mult-drive configurations for many years now. Have you even looked at Dell's business laptop lineup in the past 10 years or so? I don't know of any Dell product that can do that. This is a true "mobile workstation", as HP call it. I have a 17" ZBook and besides the two you mentioned, I installed a third drive in the optical bay.
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