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In this guide, I will disassemble an Alienware 17 R4. I will remove the bottom cover to upgrade the SSD, HDD, and RAM.
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The Alienware 17 R2 can have up to 5 total drives - ONE slot accepts a 2.5' drive (either HDD or SSD, your choice). The other 4 slots are M.2 'gumstick' drive slots (SSD ONLY). (Look more like RAM chips than what you're used to seeing a SSD look like). Also note that the first 3 M.2 slots on this computer are SATA III (6Gb/s) and the fourth is. This guide will show you how to access and remove the solid state drive (SSD) for your Alienware 17 R4. Buy these tools. Phillips Head Screwdriver: Size PH1. M.2. One M.2 2242 card slot for SSD. Two M.2 2280 card slots for SSD. One M.2 2230 card slot for WiFi/Bluetooth combo card 11. Alienware 17 R4 Setup. The Alienware - 17.3' Laptop - Intel Core i7 - 16GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 - 1TB Hard Drive + 128GB Solid State Drive - Silver is the best laptop that we have ever had. It's fast, pleasant to look at and is a great gaming computer.
There are two different types of screws, and I circled them with different colors.
Remove six screws (red) that securing the bottom cover to the laptop.
Loosen one screw (yellow). Insert a pick to pry up the bottom cover.
Alienware 17 R4 Ssd Slots
Alienware 17 R4 Ssd Slots
When you're downloading lots of games to your Alienware 17, you can fill up your storage space very quickly. The gaming notebook uses both an NVMe M.2 SSD and a traditional HDD, and both can be.
Under the bottom cover, you can get access to three M.2 SSD slots, two RAM slots, and a hard drive module.
From the picture you can see, Alienware 17 R4 comes with two M.2 2280 SSD slots (support SATA and PCIe SSD) and an M.2 2242 slot.
Here’s left the cooling fan.
The Alienware 17 R4 comes with two 8GB DDR4 2667MHz RAMs. According to Dell website information, it supports up to 32GB RAM, so you can replace it with 16GB DDR4 2667MHz RAM respectively.
Here’s hard drive module, it is securing to the laptop by four screws.
Here’s Toshiba 256GB PCIe SSD.