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August 9th, 2016 18:00
Alienware 17 R3 with Samsung 950 Pro
After receiving my new Alienware I decided to install a Samsung 950 Pro. After a lot of blood sweat and tears and TONS of frustration, I was able to get Windows 10 installed along with most of my games. I felt that it was finally safe to re-install the 1TB HDD that came with the laptop.
Boy was I wrong, it refused to detect the 950 PRO and refused to boot at all. I had to take the 1TB back out, just so I could boot back into the windows installed on the 950 Pro. And before you say anything yes I did disable to windows boot option for the 1TB in the Bios.
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August 11th, 2016 12:00
Hi,
Engineering has been investigating the compatibility of this SSD and is apparently not compatible with this model, therefore will cause this type of erorres, among others.
Below is the list of SSD M2 drives compatible with the 15R2, 17R3 and Aurora R5:
SSD 1TB Hynix PC300 PCIe NVMe 2280
SANDISK X400 512G M.2 2280 SSD
SSD 256G Samsung PM951 PCIe NVMe 2280
LITEON CV3 128G M.2 2280 SSD
SSD 512G Samsung PM951 PCIe NVMe 2280
HYNIX SC308 256G M.2 2280 SSD
SANDISK X400 128G M.2 2280 SSD
SSD 256G Toshiba XG3n PCIe NVMe 2280
SSD 256G Hynix PC305 PCIe NVMe 2280
HYNIX SC308 128G M.2 2280 SSD
SANDISK X400 256G M.2 2280 SSD
SSD 512G LiteOn CX2 PCIe NVMe 2280
HYNIX SC308 512G M.2 2280 SSD
SSD 512G Hynix PC300 PCIe NVMe 2280
SSD 1TB LiteOn CX2 PCIe NVMe 2280
SSD 1TB Samsung PM951 PCIe NVMe 2280
LITEON CV3 512G M.2 2280 SSD
SSD 512G Toshiba XG3n PCIe NVMe 2280
SSD 1TB Toshiba XG3n PCIe NVMe 2280
SSD 256G LiteOn CX2 PCIe NVMe 2280
LITEON CV3 256G M.2 2280 SSD