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Replacement of stock 1TB HDD on Alienware 17 r4 with a 4TB SSD
Replacement of stock 1TB HDD on Alienware 17 r4 with a 4TB SSD
Is it possible to replace the stock hdd with a sdd?
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-Arek
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June 16th, 2017 05:00
http://topics-cdn.dell.com/pdf/alienware-17-laptop_Setup%20Guide_en-us.pdf
Hard drive
One 2.5-inch drive
Solid-state drive (SSD)
Two full-size M.2 PCIe/SATA drives
One half-size M.2 PCIe/SATA drive
You can replace the 2.5 with an SSD
HOWEVER I am not aware of any 4TB SSD's in either the M.2 physical size that is TB
On the 2.5 inch models PM1633a SSD is quite fat.
Samsung 4TB 850 Evo 2.5" SATA III SSD might fit but its $1600
Installing drives larger than 2TB is not trivial. Average user will not know how to install the proper AHCI F6 driver with WINPE and use diskpart to format and mount the drive then finish the install. It must be converted to GPT mode before it can be formatted as a single partition.
shift f10 to open adminstrator command prompt
then run diskpart
WD Caviar Green 3TB Hard Drive Installation Demo - YouTube
SSD 850 EVO 2.5" SATA III 4TB Memory & Storage - MZ-75E4T0B/AM | Samsung US