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Hello, I hope your loved ones are safe and healthy. I have a Dell Precision 3440 SFF workstation. It has Intel W480 chipset (https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/product-briefs/w480-chipset-brief.pdf) with Intel Xeon W 1290 processor. As per Dell it can have following HDD configurations (from what I am interested in): (source: page 15 of this guide: https://topics-cdn.dell.com/pdf/precision-3440-workstation_setup-guide_en-us.pdf) A. 1 x M.2 PCIe SSD with - 1 x 3.5 HDD. B. 1 x M.2 PCIe SSD with - 2 x 2.5 HDDs. I wanted to know if mix drive types: A. 1 x M.2 PCIe SSD with - 1 x 3.5' HDD and 1 x 2.5' **SSD** OR B. 1 x M.2 PCIe SSD with - 2 x 2.5' **SSDs** I am running VMWare ESXi on the workstation and getting an enterprise grade SSD is expensive. Hence I want to use HDD (NAS grade, which I had lying around) and **one additional 2.5' SSD for the IOPS**. As the number of VMs grow latency is eating into my work, I agree mistakes have been made, I am trying to best salvage from this. I purchased the machine 5 years warranty 3 months back :D. I have even connected a NAS (Synology) using iSCSI to put few machines on the NAS. I have one M.2 SSD which I use to mount partitions from as opposed to using it as a boot devices since it is not enterprise grade. Thank you.

Hi I got the following information, does it help: Handle 0x000A, DMI type 17, 84 bytes Memory Device Array Handle: 0x0009 Error Information Handle: Not Provided Total Width: 64 bits Data Width: 64 bits Size: 8192 MB Form Factor: DIMM Set: None Locator: DIMM1 Bank Locator: Not Specified Type: DDR4 Type Detail: Synchronous Speed: 3200 MT/s Manufacturer: 80AD000080AD Serial Number: 938DC48B Asset Tag: 01194900 Part Number: HMA81GU6DJR8N-XN Rank: 1 Configured Clock Speed: 2933 MT/s Minimum Voltage: Unknown Maximum Voltage: Unknown Configured Voltage: 1.2 V # dmidecode 3.1 Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs. SMBIOS 3.2.0 present. # SMBIOS implementations newer than version 3.1.1 are not # fully supported by this version of dmidecode. Handle 0x0009, DMI type 16, 23 bytes Physical Memory Array Location: System Board Or Motherboard Use: System Memory Error Correction Type: None Maximum Capacity: 128 GB Error Information Handle: Not Provided Number Of Devices: 4 Handle 0x000A, DMI type 17, 84 bytes Memory Device Array Handle: 0x0009 Error Information Handle: Not Provided Total Width: 64 bits Data Width: 64 bits Size: 8192 MB Form Factor: DIMM Set: None Locator: DIMM1 Bank Locator: Not Specified Type: DDR4 Type Detail: Synchronous Speed: 3200 MT/s Manufacturer: 80AD000080AD Serial Number: 938DC48B Asset Tag: 01194900 Part Number: HMA81GU6DJR8N-XN Rank: 1 Configured Clock Speed: 2933 MT/s Minimum Voltage: Unknown Maximum Voltage: Unknown Configured Voltage: 1.2 V

Hi I am not sure if this helps but here is the chipset is Intel W480 with following options as per specification page: 128 GB, 4 x 32 GB, DDR4, 2666 MHz for Intel Core i3/i5/XeonW-1250 processors, 2933 MHz for Intel Core i7/i9/XeonW-1270/W-1290 processors. Somehow I am overly excited for the workstation to come in so I can finally have my own virtual lab at home

I purchased Ubuntu with my workstation (it is still in transit), I however see there is a version of CPU-Z for Linux. I will install it and get back (hopefully in a week.) Thank you very much and have a wonderful week ahead.

Thank you very much for your guidance. Workstation will run CPU and I/O intensive tasks (Elastic stack, if you know the solution.) I am not sure if memory is priority. However, since I will be owing the system for couple of years (4-5 as I got full 5 years warranty.) -- I want to populate with 32x1 RAM as opposed to 16x2. I will be installing VMWare's ESXi hypervisor followed by Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for the guest OS (3 VMs to start with) My current setup is a VM on my NAS (Synology 718+) where the system load is ~8.0 (for a 4 core VM) with 4 GB RAM (DDR3). I can see 20% IRQs per processor. Would this be a better choice? : https://www.amazon.in/Crucial-16GB-SDRAM-Memory-Module/dp/B019FRBCQE/ref=sr_1_17?dchild=1&keywords=16gb+ddr4&qid=1593981954&sr=8-17

Ah so this would not be an ideal purchase: https://www.amazon.in/Corsair-Vengeance-3000MHz-Memory-CMK32GX4M1D3000C16/dp/B07VRKX537/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=32+GB+RAM&qid=1593981259&sr=8-2 as I reckon it uses XMP 2.0. While I am unsure of the differences (I am reading them right now.) - Would you totally recommend against these? I need to upgrade RAM as I plan to deploy VMs. I need stability of the system and do not wish to do any overclocking.

Thank you very much. I've been hunting for an answer to this for sometime now. While Dell has not mentioned the motherboard details, is there any other check that i need to do or DDR-4 3000 MHz will work seamlessly as you've kindly pointed out.

Hello, I am trying to buy additional RAM for a Dell Precision Workstation (3441 SFF.) It has Intel Xeon W 1290 processor. As per the product page it support Memory Type: DDR4-2933 with 2 memory channels. Original system configuration has 8 GB DDR-4 2933 MHz non-ecc RAM. Hence my questions: Will DDR-4 3000 MHz RAM work in conjunction with the 2933 MHz RAM stick (8x1.) Will combining different RAM speeds cause system instability? Is there possibility of damage (life) of the system due to varying RAM speeds being used. Thank you very much.