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I wish to add an mSATA drive to an older Dell XPS8700 i7-4770 desktop to act as the boot device for Windows 10.
I contacted Dell support but was only able to confirm that the slot exists(duh) and they directed me to the manual. The manual simply shows how to install or remove the drive from the board. In two different calls the agent was unable to confirm that there would be no issue installing an mSATA device and booting from the mSATA.
Some forum posts at Dell report the mSATA is a cache only. Another suggests possible devices to use but no indication of if they would be a cache device only or a bootable device.
Has anyone used an mSata successfully as the primary boot device on an XPS8700?
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verified it works>>>>https://www.dell.com/community/Desktops-General-Read-Only/XPS-8700-New-mSata-wont-boot-unless/td-p/4639452
– Moab – 2019-11-29T22:49:50.3501You are better to use a regular SSD on the sata bus, it will be much much faster. – Moab – 2019-11-29T22:51:16.363