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- When you're downloading lots of games to your Alienware 17, you can fill up your storage space very quickly.The gaming notebook uses both an NVMe M.2 SSD and a traditional HDD, and both can be.
- As far as I understood the new Alienware 17 R4 has 3 M.2 SSD slots (2 x 2280 and 1 x 2242). I was having a look at the HyperX Predator PCIe Gen2 x4 (M.2) Internal SSD - 240 GB (SHPM2280P2/240G). What do you think? Would you have any suggestions?
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1. Removing the bottom
This is fairly easy to do and it requires little unscrewing to do. Just remove all the screws and the cover will pop right out.
2. Storage
With DDR4 still being relatively new, and Alienware/Dell only claiming support for '16 GBs' of RAM, I strongly you suggest that you get picky when looking to upgrade to 32GBs. The memory controller that is included in the Skylake CPU packages can support 64 GBs of RAM, but the 17 R3 only has two memory slots.
Once again, the laptop offers a good amount of storage options. The motherboard holds three M.2 PCIe NVMe-enabled SSD slots with one in our unit taken by a Toshiba M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD with 256GB capacity while the 2.5-inch HDD slot is taken by an HGST drive with 1TB capacity. The other two M.2 SSD slots are also PCIe NVMe-enabled but one of them is 2260 while the other supports the standard 2280 sizes.
3. RAM and Wi-Fi card
Usually, we are used to seeing high-end gaming laptops with four RAM slots but interestingly enough, the Alienware R4 holds only two of those and in out case, they are both taken by 8GB DDR4-2666 chips by SK Hynix.
The Wi-Fi card is Killer 1535 and can be found right next to the left cooling fan (with the notebook’s bottom facing upwards).
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4. Full disassembly
Ready yourself with some patience because this will get tricky. Before doing anything, remove all the screws holding the black plate. Then, unscrew the two bolts holding the back, pull it out gently and remove the rest of the screws. You will see that near the two edges, where the heat pipes end, the Wi-Fi antennas, which go along the LED strips, are held by two screws. Remove them and gently pull the whole black plate.
5. Battery
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As you can see, it’s quite the hassle to get to the battery but we were surprised to see that it’s the maximum allowed capacity you can bring on an airplane – 99Wh.
6. Cooling system
The cooling system is neatly designed with two fans and several big heat pipes. The right fan draws cool air from the side vent opening and pushes it towards the left fan, which in turn, pushes the hot air through its own vent opening. However, the rear radiators are responsible for most of the cooling.
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In this guide, I will disassemble an Alienware 17 R4. I will remove the bottom cover to upgrade the SSD, HDD, and RAM.
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There are two different types of screws, and I circled them with different colors.
Remove six screws (red) that securing the bottom cover to the laptop.
Loosen one screw (yellow). Insert a pick to pry up the bottom cover.
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Under the bottom cover, you can get access to three M.2 SSD slots, two RAM slots, and a hard drive module.
From the picture you can see, Alienware 17 R4 comes with two M.2 2280 SSD slots (support SATA and PCIe SSD) and an M.2 2242 slot.
Here’s left the cooling fan.
The Alienware 17 R4 comes with two 8GB DDR4 2667MHz RAMs. According to Dell website information, it supports up to 32GB RAM, so you can replace it with 16GB DDR4 2667MHz RAM respectively.
Here’s hard drive module, it is securing to the laptop by four screws.
Here’s Toshiba 256GB PCIe SSD.