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December 28th, 2016 11:00
Alienware 15 R3 Late 2016 M2 SSD Question
Just trying to figure out what is supported in the second full size M2 bay.
From what i gather it is a 4 lane PCIe M2 2280 form factor. I assume it supports NVMe correct?
Would either the samsung 850pro or the samsung 960 evo/pro work with this laptop?
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December 29th, 2016 15:00
Hi.
The system has 3 pcie M2 ports: 2 x 2280 working at 4x and 1 x 2242 working at 2x.
This is the list of validated SSD:
SSD 1TB Hynix PC300 PCIe NVMe 2280
SANDISK X400 512G M.2 2280 SSD
SSD 256G Samsung PM951 PCIe NVMe 2280
LITEON CV3 128G M.2 2280 SSD
SSD 512G Samsung PM951 PCIe NVMe 2280
HYNIX SC308 256G M.2 2280 SSD
SANDISK X400 128G M.2 2280 SSD
SSD 256G Toshiba XG3n PCIe NVMe 2280
SSD 256G Hynix PC305 PCIe NVMe 2280
HYNIX SC308 128G M.2 2280 SSD
SANDISK X400 256G M.2 2280 SSD
SSD 512G LiteOn CX2 PCIe NVMe 2280
HYNIX SC308 512G M.2 2280 SSD
SSD 512G Hynix PC300 PCIe NVMe 2280
SSD 1TB LiteOn CX2 PCIe NVMe 2280
SSD 1TB Samsung PM951 PCIe NVMe 2280
LITEON CV3 512G M.2 2280 SSD
SSD 512G Toshiba XG3n PCIe NVMe 2280
SSD 1TB Toshiba XG3n PCIe NVMe 2280
SSD 256G LiteOn CX2 PCIe NVMe 2280