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September 9th, 2023 19:34
m15 R5, Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD compatibility?
Hi can someone tell me if my laptop Alienware M15 R5 is compatible with Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB M.2 NVMe Internal Solid State Drive
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crimsom
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September 9th, 2023 22:24
Hi Idkwhatmyusershouldbe welcome to this free user-to-user Alienware laptop discussion forum.
The Dell Alienware m15 Ryzen Edition R5 (5/4/2021) Setup and Specifications says Chipset supports PCIe bus up to Gen3. There are two M.2 2230/2280 internal slots for solid-state drives.
The more recent Crucial System Advisor database Alienware m15 R5 | Memory RAM & SSD Upgrades | Crucial.com says internal SSD slot will accept PCIe Gen 4.0 x 4 NVMe.
The Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB M.2 PCIe Gen 3.0 x 4 NVMe Internal Solid State Drive (MZ-V7S1T0B/AM) is compatible.
If this is going to be your new OS(C:) boot drive, the SSD partition format should be GPT (not MBR) so that the modern BIOS boot list option UEFI is enabled. Visit BIOS settings to check that UEFI is already enabled.
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Idkwhatmyusershouldbe
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September 10th, 2023 22:54
@crimsom thank you for replying im not going to be using it for my OS drive in just using it to store my games and sofware. Also do you need to format or install anything once you put it in
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September 11th, 2023 00:12
Hi Idkwhatmyusershouldbe thank you for sharing update.
Alienware m15 R5 (5/4/2021) operating system can be Windows 10, 64-bit or Windows 11.
DATA drive can be used to store personal and other information, but not used to install games or other applications.
Check that BIOS main menu lists new drive. Open Disk Management to format new Disk 1 and assign new letter so that windows operating system can see it.
How to assign permanent letters to drives on Windows 10 | Windows Central.
How to manage storage devices on Windows 11 | Windows Central.
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