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New Alienware 15 R2
I upgraded my gaming PC from a several year old MX11R3 to a 15R2 recently. I missed out on the free M.2 SSD special they were running at the time, and went with the 7200rpm 1TB HDD instead. Knowing that Alienware's laptops are easy to upgrade (memory, hd ...) I just figured I would upgrade the HDD later.
It's been a long time since I had a mechanical HDD in a laptop, so I guess I had forgotten what bottleneck they can be. My disk activity is at 100% for the first 5 min of the device being booted up, and I don't really have much installed on the machine.
So I am looking at M.2 SSD drives, but I am new to this SSD format. Are there any specific requirements/compatibility that I have to watch for? or will ANY work with my 15R2?
For example:
www.amazon.com/.../ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl;colid=2SG3FB5VTA56A&coliid=I1S2M6NHAC3EOV&psc=1
tomorrowmatters
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January 20th, 2016 07:00
I have the 15R2 and it has the M.2 SSD , the form factor is 2280.
Vedeyn
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January 21st, 2016 06:00
Hmm I am not sure about an NVME drive working in the Alienware 15R2.. Hopefully someone else here can answer that or Dell support could.
I do know that these drives work, I have two of them in my 15R2:
www.newegg.com/.../Product.aspx
I currently have them striped together and get a bit over 1Gbps read and writes to them.
Drew732
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January 28th, 2016 13:00
Thanks for the suggestion! I ordered one.
Did you clone your old drive to the new M.2 SSD or did you rebuild the OS.
Since my machine is pretty new, I am hoping I can just pop in the new M.2 SSD and clone the drive over. Once I am certain everything is stable I will use the 1TB 7200 HD for backups and file storage.
Vedeyn
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January 29th, 2016 07:00
I had just done a clean install of Windows.