Dell XPS 15 9560 - additional Harddisk

It depeneds on the battery you ordered - if you ordered the larger of the two batteries, no - the battery consumes the 2.5" drive bay.

If you have the smaller capacity battery, it may be possible to mount a 2.5" SSD - but note that someone who's tried has found it will only run at SATA 150 speeds.  The system supports either a spinning hard drive + M.2 cache ssd OR a single M.2 SSD -- and if that M.2 drive is NVMe, it likely consumes the bandwidth that's available for the 2.5" SSD connector.

Hi,

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To answer your question, XPS 9560 is shipped with the following:

Hard drive: One 2.5-inch drive

Solid-state drive: One M.2 drive

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thanks ejn63

I could not choose the battery to be honest, I did notice it was a M2 sdd of 512 Gb that was already installed

The 512G SSD model comes with the 97 WHr battery - meaning no space for a 2.5" drive.

Hi ejn63

your post is really interesting to me because I am going to install a second SSD into the 2.5 inch space.

I currently have the 256 M.2 SSD and I would like to install the second SSD just to be used as a storage device.

When you say that the speed is downgraded to SATA 150 you mean it will affect only the second SSD while the main M.2 SSD performance remain unchanged or it will affect the performance of the main M.2 as well?

thanks for the reply!