Precision M6400 Owner's Lounge

sorry you are still having to wait Toad........

 

UGH! God help us. I too got the call - DELAYED INDEFINITELY

QQ

I'm leaving for Australia end of December so this is kinda starting to stress me out a bit.

I'm starting to think I may just want my money back.

And now the Core i7 stuff is out for Alienware... 8 cores.. maybe I don't need notebook mobility as much as I thought...

 

I ordered my Covet on Oct 17.
Estimated ship date of Nov. 17.
As of today it's still "In Production"

When I contacted my rep last week they said it'd ship by last Friday. Hopefully they got mine far enough along in the process that I'm not waiting for back ordered parts and it'll be shipped shortly. I'll let you know if I get it anytime soon.

 

Actually, I purchased one of the 64GB SSD's with my previous Dell laptop (M1330), and I was very dissapointed at the write performance. Sure the laptop started up in about half of the time, but once it started up, as a software developer, the thing just crawled. After researching the issue a bit, I found out that the random write times on the Solid State Drive's are horrible, and that was the cause. I replaced the SSD drive with a normal drive with a huge 16MB Cache, and it was fine after that.
That is why I'm ordering my M6400 Covet with Dual 160GB drives hooked up as RAID 0. I make regular backups to an external eSata drive anyway, so I don't think this is taking any more risk than the other person who posted that they enabled the write-back cache on their SSD to get the performance up to what it was advertised at.

 

Do you recall the model number of the SSD drive your m1330 shipped with? There are two types of SSD drives: SLC (Single Level Cache) and MLC (Multi Level Cache).. MLC SSD drives suffer half the write performance of the SLC drives and there have been multiple complaints concerning these drives (especially the ones that use the JMicron controllers) and I believe the m6400 ships with the Samsung SLC drives which have roughly equal write and read performance (100 MB/s read 80 MB/s write) and are very obvious to identify as they have a brushed aluminum casing. Perhaps someone who has received their m6400 with an SSD drive can confirm this as I’m still waiting on mine.

 

Ok!!!!! GUYS!!! ITS FINALLY UP!

The site is still a bit buggy and i just updated the contents so it might take a little while for the server to adjust and remove the old content...The about page is as slightly buggy on firefox as u wull need to click on a different page and go back to the contact page for the javascript to run properly.

Check this out(lol)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=h-D3upZ-BSI&fmt=18

The link to the review is
http://www.adoniteink.com/reviews.html

 

Can someone tell me why the M6400 can not be configured with 2 HDD (without raid) with Vista Ultimate, but can be with Vista Business or if they HDD are put in RAID?

 

Under Vista 64bit SP1 which of the following are possible for the 1394 on the M6400:
1394a (firewire 400)
1394b (firewire 800)
FireWire S1600
FireWire S3200
1394c (firewire S800T)

I hope 1394b (firewire 800) is definitely a "yes".

 

I have the same problem.

 

It was a Samsung 64GB Solid State Disk SSD 2.5 SATA Laptop Drive. Here's a write-up on Tom's Hardware site confirming the slow write performance:
dubau dubau dubau.tomshardware.com/reviews/solid-state-drives,1745-3.html