18 Area-51 AA18250, cannot obtain a SSD-1 thermal shield?

Question

Hi,

Had the Alienware 18 Area-51 AA18250 for about a week, and am really happy so far.

Except that I want to put in 2 Gen5's in slot 1 and 3, but there is no thermal shield for SSD-1. The only one I could find was from Dell USA

Dell 2280 Solid State Drive slot bracket and Thermal Pad for Alienware 18 Area-51/ 16 Area-51 SSD-1 | Dell USA

But they do not ship outside the USA. TWO tech support calls and a number of e-mails got me exactly nowhere. This cost me more than I'd like and it's hard to believe such a simple, but vital, part is unobtainable, in Europe at least?

Meh-Baa · Accepted Answer

Ok, Dell Denmark does have it, so my bad. Sorry Dell. Not sure how to mark this as Solved.

Baa-meh · Answer

@Sydneyblue  Thanks for the suggestion, but I do not think they have spares for the Alienware 18 Area-51 aa18250, yet anyway. I've written to them to double-check.

Sydneyblue · Answer

https://www.parts-people.com/index.php?action=category&start=48&id=151&subid=1412 try them

gilles012345 · Answer

Salut Baa-meh,

Peut-être pourra tu me renseigner,

J'ai commandé un Alienware 18 Area-51 avec RTX 5090 et un SSD 2 To Gen5 , sur quel port sera connecté mon SSD d'origine, car à réception je vais installer un second SSD sansung pro 9100 mais il faut que je commande un dissipateur thermique mais pour cela il faut que je sache si celui d'origine est sur le port 2 et dans ce cas le dissipateur thermique inclus servira pour installer le second disque sur le port 3 et donc rien à acheter, ou bien le SSD d'origine est sur le port 1 et là je dois commander le dissipateur pour les ports 2 et 3 pour pouvoir y ajouter mon ssd samsung que j'ai déjà. Je reçois le portable pour noël et je voudrais ainsi tout avoir sous la main pour ce jour.

merci

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18 Area-51 AA18250, cannot obtain a SSD-1 thermal shield?

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