But you could still potentially install an SSD on it. If I had it to do all over again, I would not have purchased this system. I could not do that on an SSHD on this system. Started it last night and I got up this morning to find that it says it has only 6:31:24 hours remaining! But it still is leaps and bounds better than this system's bottlenecking with an SSHD installed! At least I can still work on the system while scanning or during file intensive operations. Performance is good for most things, but heaven forbid that you have to run a full virus scan! Performance is not all that great in that case.

I just plugged it in, formatted it, and have been using it for a few weeks now. Windows 10 and 11 both have the driver for my device built in. Yet in spite of the above, even with the Samsung SSD, I installed it, and installed Windows onto it just fine. What can you do? 'Suck it up and buy a new one!' I guess. I guess it was too much to ask to have a system be capable of Windows upgrades a few years in future or be capable of running a decent graphics card out of the box! Oh well. One egregious issue is that it won't expose the processor's capabilities of VBS or firmware TPM even though the processor was supposed to be supported for the system and does have those capabilities. Still, the UEFI BIOS on the machine is practically crippled and they won't release an update to correct its several issues now that the system is out of warranty support. (Had exactly the same problem on a Dell Inspiron 560, too! But then that one was only certified for Windows 7, so.) I guess I cannot really blame Dell for that because the system only was certified for Windows 8 and 8.1. I had had multiple problems with Windows thinking the system was a laptop computer from Windows 10 onward (which Microsoft was good enough to correct on being notified about Windows thinking the computer was a laptop and installing the laptop role every time there was a major update). But that is no guarantee with a Dell Inspiron. Not sure, but you might have better luck with a Crucial SSD, if you want it recognized as a SATA SSD by various software on your Dell machine. It was like a new lease on life for this machine. Other than that, the drive does seem to work okay, and has excellent performance for the circumstances. Returned one and got a replacement, thinking it was defective because the Samsung Magician software displays it with a USB icon instead of a hard drive icon, and some weird 0MB volume A: shows up that isn't there on the drive. Performance Benchmarking is not available because the software claims it is not a supported feature (even though Samsung states that it is for this SSD.īIOS and software update did not make any difference. Samsung Magician software thinks that the drive is USB, although detecting it as SATA. I installed a Samsung 870 EVO on my Dell Inspiron 3847. You did not state what you wanted to install.

Using apricorn sata wire