Will Samsung 960 EVO MZ-V6E500B work in Aurora R7?

Great thanks. Can you explain the meaning of this:

https://www.dell.com/community/Alienware-Desktops/Aurora-R7-Adding-additional-SSD-SATA-storage/td-p/5907131

"Unfortunately Samsung EVO and Samsung PRO SSDs are not compatible with any Alienware systems due to the fact that their firmware does not include validation for our Motherboards; any other brand and make of SSD should be fully compatible though."

Is the M2 slot different from where it normally should be connected to for primary drive?

Likely you could just put one of these inside the M.2 slot since it likely its NVMe so it should be all good.

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@Yodellmawrote:

 

1. Great thanks. Can you explain the meaning of this:

https://www.dell.com/community/Alienware-Desktops/Aurora-R7-Adding-additional-SSD-SATA-storage/td-p/5907131

"Unfortunately Samsung EVO and Samsung PRO SSDs are not compatible with any Alienware systems due to the fact that their firmware does not include validation for our Motherboards; any other brand and make of SSD should be fully compatible though."

 

2. Is the M2 slot different from where it normally should be connected to for primary drive?

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1. If you read that thread, you would see that was a misleading, contradictory,  and really just incorrect statement. Anyway, it was just 3rd-hand info.

2. There is only one M.2 slot (on motherboard) for PCIe/NVMe 2280 form-factor SSD. If installed, it should be your Primary Windows-bootable SSD. It is 5x faster than the other SATA-3 ports/SSDs.

Wow, since it was made by a moderator I thought it must be true which is why I was so confused. 5x faster sounds incredible, thanks!

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@Yodellmawrote:

Great thanks. Can you explain the meaning of this:

https://www.dell.com/community/Alienware-Desktops/Aurora-R7-Adding-additional-SSD-SATA-storage/td-p/5907131

"Unfortunately Samsung EVO and Samsung PRO SSDs are not compatible with any Alienware systems due to the fact that their firmware does not include validation for our Motherboards; any other brand and make of SSD should be fully compatible though."

 

Is the M2 slot different from where it normally should be connected to for primary drive?

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This thread is regarding 2.5-inch drives not M.2 and any SSD will work, Dell tends to "Validate" certain hardware and call everything else incompatible which is simply not true, this reminds me of the early GTX 1050 ti days where Dell said they would not work on machines like Optiplex. But I got an Optiplex 780 to work perfectly with a 1050ti despite dell would say no. Recently, however, some people have learned to ignore dell validation and try "incompatible hardware" usually with good results. Long story short don't use dell validation as a limiting factor.

I installed Samsung 860 EVO and its working perfect as primary hard..