How to Determine Hard Drive Type
Note: The following procedure is for Dell computers only.
Determining Hard Drive Type using Dell BIOS
You can usually determine the type of drives you have in your system using the UEFI BIOS Setup. Power down your Dell. Then power it up and press [F2] when you see the Dell Logo to get to the UEFI BIOS Setup.
Press the [↓] arrow on your keyboard (use the mouse pointer if available) until you get to System Information and then press [Enter].
In the section Device Information, we can see there is a drive in SATA-0 and in M.2 and hence we know we have a SATA interface and a M.2 interface in this system.
There is also a System Configuration field. This can be expanded by pressing [Enter].
There is a sub-field called Drives. Highlighting this shows that the drive in SATA-0 is a Crucial CT240M500SSD1 and in M.2 is a Samsung MZVPW256HEGL-000L7.
As always if you run into any issues please contact the Extension IT Helpdesk at extensionit-help@illinois.edu.