A weird thing happened with a 3 year old Dell Optiplex and a new SSD

I swapped the old hard drive in a client's Optiplex 3070 for a 500GB Samsung 870 EVO, cloned it, and it booted fine. But the system kept freezing for 2 seconds every minute, like clockwork. Turns out the SATA controller mode in the BIOS was set to RAID ON from the factory, not AHCI. Switched it to AHCI and the freezes stopped completely. Has anyone else run into this on a Dell business machine that seemed too new for that kind of issue?

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claire_davis3113d ago

Check the SATA mode first on any Dell you work on. Saw this exact thing on an Optiplex 3040 last month, same fix.

logan65813d ago

Seriously, that's the first thing you check every single time?

dylan_brown3013d ago

My buddy learned that the hard way, @logan658.