Dell Support for Alienware m17 R4 Storage slots says it has One M.2 2230 and Two M.2 2280, for PCIe Gen3.0 x4 NVMe cards. A 1TB or 2TB ultrafast M.2 2280 NVMe card is recommended for the OS(C:) drive, such as the Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB M.2 internal SSD (MZ-V8V1T0BW) with PCIe Gen3.0 x4 read/write speeds of up to 3,500/3,000 Mbps. The 1TB and 2TB NVMe cards usually offer the best read/write speeds. Use the internet to get the best price complete with the option of free cloning application with cloning instructions.
As part of your disaster Recovery Plan, create a standby NVMe OS(C) drive. If the NVMe OS(C) drive becomes unrecoverable, swap in the standby NVMe OS(C) drive to get up and running in minutes.
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Hi @Silverblack welcome to this user to user discussion forum. This is not Dell Support.
If your system has the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 16GB GDDR6 it must be a (2021) Alienware m17 R4 gaming laptop.
Dell Support for Alienware m17 R4 Storage slots says it has One M.2 2230 and Two M.2 2280, for PCIe Gen3.0 x4 NVMe cards. A 1TB or 2TB ultrafast M.2 2280 NVMe card is recommended for the OS(C:) drive, such as the Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB M.2 internal SSD (MZ-V8V1T0BW) with PCIe Gen3.0 x4 read/write speeds of up to 3,500/3,000 Mbps. The 1TB and 2TB NVMe cards usually offer the best read/write speeds. Use the internet to get the best price complete with the option of free cloning application with cloning instructions.
As part of your disaster Recovery Plan, create a standby NVMe OS(C) drive. If the NVMe OS(C) drive becomes unrecoverable, swap in the standby NVMe OS(C) drive to get up and running in minutes.
Please click on Kudos to say thank you for response from another user. Please share an update on progress, so that other users derive benefit from your experience. Thank you.