E6410 Owner's Thread

I don't have any other USB 3.0 devices.

Since I'm looking for portability, I don't own and will probably never own any 3.5" external drives.

Why are there not more eSATA 2.5" external drives available? That would seem like a simple solution since the standard has already been out for a while now.

 

Because people don't buy them. Maybe because they don't know it, or don't have the port.

So far, mostly only business class and high end OEM system have eSATA. Of course, almost every single custom builder motherboard have one, but that is not the large market. I find it shameful as well. All I could found, and this is what I use now, is an external powered 3.5 HDD enclosure with eSATA port (of course, with an 7200RPM HDD inside). Not very portable as you mentioned, due to the power adapter.

I purchase myself a super high speed 2.0 USB memory key 8GB.
It says 27MB/s read and 25MB/s write.

If you are interested, it's life time warranty, and available in 8, 16 and 64GB

So it's very very nice. It's only 25-35$ price tag for the 16GB depending on the store. Putting Win7 on it to install it on a system, allows me to install Win7 64-bit in 7min.

 

You can buy an enclosure with eSATA and put in your own HDD. This is the least expensive enclosure I have seen (does it improve the cables). These enclosures use the eSATA port for data and a USB port for power. An alternative is to use an eSATA powered cable such as this which connects to a bare 2.5" HDD and uses the combo USB / eSATA port for both power and data.

John

 

^That cable is a good idea! Looks like it will only work for 2.5 drives...

Also, it would be ~$43US for those of us in the United States.

Here is one for those of us in the United States...$9.95.

 

I achieved around 70 MB/s reads from a 2,5" WD Passport over USB 3 running over expresscard. A proper esata 2,5" drive would be a dream though, there are literally none on the market in Norway right now.

 

2.5" enclosures with eSATA or the combo cables (see above) are available. Pre-packaged external 2.5" HDDs with eSATA are uncommon. How easy is it for you to purchase from elsewhere in Europe if you can't find a suitable enclosure in Norway?

John

 

I am having some difficulty with my latitude e6410 running dual monitors when docked on my ePort. One monitor is using the DVI connection and the second monitor is using a VGA connection. In the display properties the laptop recognizes two monitors, but the secondary monitor is the laptop monitor. When I select identify, the 1 is on the DVI monitor and the 2 is on the laptop monitor. I know the docking station / monitors / cables are all good as I have connected another Latitude e6410 to the same ePort and I can get the dual monitors working just fine. It's something on this laptop - drivers, updates, etc.

Has anybody else encountered this problem?

 

Has anyone of you encountered overheating problems with the E6410? I've seen 2 E6410's this week that spontaneously shut down, giving error message #M1004 just before the shutdown and some message about overheating (they were hot, but not hotter than other E6410's).
Dell replaced the motherboard and heatsink of both units, and that seems to have solved it.

I was wondering if this is a production fault or something? We have a lot of E6410 so I hope that this isn't a remake of the D630-overheated-video-card-problem.

 

Only 2 monitors can be used at the same time. This is a common graphic card limitation. You need to close the laptop screen, to have your 2 monitor working

You are the first with this issue here.

 

Poor mounting of the heatsink assembly and/or a clogged cooling system could cause exceptionally high temperatures. With a properly mounted and clean cooling system the temperatures should never get so high that the system shuts down. Do you know if the computers had dedicated GPUs and were those GPUs under heavy load at the time of shutdown? I have once seen my CPU throttle itself under sustained heavy load (although the temperature wasn't dangerously high). I don't know if a dedicated GPU has a similar throttling mechanism.

John