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Can the Alienware 15 R3 take a 2tb or 3tb HDD
I bought my laptop a year ago and I've found that the default 1tb hard drive has not been large enough. I've done quite a search and found very different answers. The Alienware youtube channel told a user that the computer could take a 2tb HDD but have not tested anything larger. But when I went into a dell support chat I was told it could only support a 1tb hard drive. Lastly on a steam forum when someone asked the same question they were told that it could take up to a 4tb hard drive. It would be nice to finally have a solid answer.
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December 26th, 2017 07:00
Boot Drives Larger than 2TB require, 64 bit windows, AHCI F6 drivers AND LEGACY CSM GPT UEFI Boot Partition. Non UEFI MBR has a maximum of 2TB.
Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST) drivers and Support for Disk Drives Beyond 2.2 TeraBytes (TB)
https://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/beyond-2tb/
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December 26th, 2017 15:00
I'm not looking to make my 3Tb hard drive the boot drive.
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December 28th, 2017 04:00
The answer is Yes and No.
4TB is available in SSD 7mm but 4TB hard drives in 2.5 inch format are 15mm thick. 15mm is too thick to fit into the case. Samsung 850 EVO is
3.94" x 2.75" x 0.27" aka 7mm thick.
Amazon.com: Samsung 850 EVO 4TB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-75E4T0B/AM): Computers & Accessories
Amazon.com: Seagate 4TB Barracuda Sata 6GB/s 128MB Cache 2.5-Inch 15mm Internal Bare/OEM Hard Drive (ST4000LM024): Compu…