Inspiron 17R SE Sata III Support?

I'm looking to pull the trigger on the new 17R 7720 and I've been lurking here for about a month.

I know it currently supports Sata II, but I'm curious if there's any chance that a software update from dell would provide support for Sata III?

what are the odds?

matchbx

 

Why wouldn't it have native SATA 3 support? All Sandy Bridge laptops support SATA 3, Ivy Bridge laptops should too.

 

I know it supports sata 3 for both internal 2.5 bay. The part i am not sure is about the mSata, i have a 32gb mSata but the one dell has installed for me is only a Sata 2. I plan on upgrading this mSata someday, for a Sata 3, but i don't know if the mSata is Sata 3.

 

When I started researching the SE a few weeks ago, I could have sworn I saw it spec'd out with SATA II. I guess I could could have gotten confused amongst the sea of browser tabs open at the time.

good to know.

Thanks,
matchbx

 

why does it matter so much that the mSATA is SATA II? It is only used for caching and its not used for your main data anyways. You should be replacing your hard disk with a SSD as your Windows drive and only use your hard disk as your storage drive raided with the mSATA. To me this is a complete non-issue unless you really want to wait another year for this. Its not like SATA II is bad either just for caching.

 

Sorry for any confusion, but I was't talking about the msata port. I was under the impression the regular drives were sata II. This made no sense to me, but neither does only including 10/100 network port and not 10/100/1000.

matchbx

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There are SATA 3 mechanical drives, but there's no point as they don't even saturate SATA 1 speeds. Not everyone needs a gigabit Ethernet port, but it's nice.

 

I am using gigabit network at home, for all my desktop/servers, but all laptops, barely EVER used the wired ethernet card, mostly for config of one remote router but that's it... 99% of the time, my laptops are using wireless network, so i don't really see the point of a 10/100/1000 port here on the laptop... I did replace the internal wireless card with a Bigfoot Killer network card, as i need reliable network especially on gaming, and imho, this can only be reached with a Bigfoot Killer network card.

 

You don't have anything to worry about. The hard drive ports are SATA III. They are not SATA II ports so no worries.

Second it used to bother me about why didn't Dell include a 10/100/1000 Ethernet port instead of a 10/100 Ethernet port and they said that the motherboards they buy for the laptop come in kits and the kit contained a 10/100 Ethernet port only. Also do you understand that a Gigabit port is useless since most cable, DSL, FIOS companies offer only 10, 20, or 30 Mbps connection. Unless your home ISP is topping well past 100 Mbps, a Gigabit port is completely useless. To me the lack of a gigabit port is not a deal breaker for me since I use wireless most of the time anyways.

 

Ethernet ports don't have to be used to connect to an ISP, they can be used to connect computers, in a local area network for example. A Cat 6a cable can support up to 10Gbit/s.

Now 10 Gigabit Ethernet is hardly commonplace but (1)Gigabit Ethernet has been around since I think 1999 and has transfer rates of...you guessed it! So transferring between two computers or to a server with Gigabit controllers and a straight Cat 5e or better cable will give you 1Gbit/s transfer speeds.

Now compare that to the Bigfoot Killer Network Wireless-N 1102 that Rassal mentioned which has a transfer rate of something like 300Mb/s and you can see the difference.

All that being said, for me it's not the end of the world as I most likely won't be using it for this purpose. But I can see how it would be a deal breaker for others

 

Yeah I guess if you are transferring a bunch of stuff between 2 computers than I agree that a gigabit port would be very handy. But the average consumer doesn't use the Ethernet port for transferring files between computers all day and uses it for Internet mainly. Also the average user nowadays is using wireless connections at home since most homes now have multiple computers and is a pain to wire the house with Cat 5 cables. However in an enterprise setting it is still all wired connections.

I am assuming everyone on this board is planning to use the laptops for home personal use. I didn't mean to apply my statements to all situations.

I mean the same principle applies to Wireless G and wireless N. Most home ISPs don't even offer speeds to max out wireless G speeds (54 Mbps) so I find it funny when people freak out like wireless G is phased out and that they need to jump to wireless N and buy a new router/network card. Wireless G is suitable for most folks since the speeds aren't topped yet. However the reason to jump to wireless N is the range improvements, improvements in max speeds (300 Mbps) and use of MIMO.

 

Yea, I really wouldn't have a lot of use for a gigabit port, I only mentioned it as an example of cost cutting measures dell used. I was under the impression they did the same thing with Sata.

 

You could always purchase something like this:
Belkin-USB-Gigabit-Ethernet-Adapter