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Installing a M.2 in a new Inspiron 5000 5570 (8th Gen i5)
Hi Guys,
I have just taken receipt of a new Inspiron 5000 (5570) with the 5th gen i5 and it comes with a 1TB HDD. I would like to add a M.2 SSD as a boot drive. Are any other parts required, or will any M.2 drive plug straight in? As it didn't have an M.2 from the factory, I know in previous generation extra parts were required to fit. Any help would be really appreciated, as the spinning disk is a real bottleneck.
Kind Regards
Simon
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November 29th, 2017 06:00
Parts are typically required to install 2.5" drives on systems that didn't come with them, since they involve brackets and ribbon cables. For M.2, you'll probably need a screw, although some SSDs actually include that. If the one you purchase doesn't, I believe the required screw type is M2x3, but verify that. Otherwise, verify whether your system supports only M.2 SATA or supports both M.2 SATA and M.2 NVMe. If it supports the latter, you'll get much better performance out of an NVMe drive like the Samsung 960 Evo, but not all Dell systems support NVMe.
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November 29th, 2017 06:00
The Dell documentation shows the M.2 SSD, thus I would suspect the screw to hold it down is already there. I have a 5577 model that came with an M.2 SSD and I added a conventional size SSD and the cabling (data/power) and mounting bracket were pre-installed so the user could install one, thus I would assume whatever is needed for an M.2 SSD is there.
Here is the link to the Dell documentation.
www.dell.com/.../manuals
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November 29th, 2017 07:00
Fyi, brackets and data cables for 2.5" drives are not always pre-installed if you don't order a 2.5" drive from the factory, not even on the "enthusiast" models like the Inspiron Gaming systems where the target market is more likely to do stuff like this. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to which models get it and which don't. I kind of doubt a screw would be there if it's not holding anything down, but it's certainly easy enough to check and remedy if it turns out there's no screw.
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November 29th, 2017 12:00
As I noted, my Inspiron 15, 5577 (sold as a gaming model) came with an M.2 SSD (standard). However, the cabling and the mounting bracket for a hard drive was there.