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Alienware 17 SSD drive location?
I own an Alienware 17 that I purchased in January of this year. It came with a 256 mb SSD. Which I have found to be woefully inadequate for my purposes. I'm at the point of cleaning the temporary files every day so that I don't fill up the drive. I purchased a new 1TB Samsung SATA III SSD, but I cannot locate where the current SSD is installed. There are two ports for HDD1 and HDD2 that are easily accessed. I added two 1 TB drives to both of these but I have no idea where the SSD is without tearing the whole laptop apart to find it. I looked the owners manual and there IS NO mention of removing OR replacing the SSD???
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Mark Hansen
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September 11th, 2014 14:00
The only port left is the mSATA which is located beneath the palmrest.
Alienware-Naomi
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September 9th, 2014 16:00
Hi!
Try checking the Owner's Manual again. Pages 21 to 30 indicate where the 3 HDD slots are located and how to replace them.
HansWild62
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September 9th, 2014 20:00
In the primary hard drive slot is the 768 GB hard drive, in the secondary hard drive slot is nothing. and in the third hard drive slot is the DVD/BD drive. That's all three slots.
Like I said before, where is the SSD drive installed?????
HansWild62
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September 11th, 2014 15:00
That would be it. How do I get to it? Do I need to remove alot of stuff to get to it?
And, thanks for the reply.
Thanks,
Mark
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September 11th, 2014 17:00
Yes, removing the palmrest requires advanced disassembly. We recommend having a Dell Certified Technician install the new part.