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Alienware 15 R3 - Compatible M.2 SSDs
What M.2 SSDs are compatible with the Alienware 15 R3? What is the short M.2 slot for?
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What M.2 SSDs are compatible with the Alienware 15 R3? What is the short M.2 slot for?
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Alienware-Eimy
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January 12th, 2017 08:00
Hi,
This model has 3 M.2 SSD ports: 2 in size 2280 that will work at 4x and 1 in size 2242 that will work at 2x (thats the short one).
Here you have a list of compatible SSDs:
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
mpelley-pelleys
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January 16th, 2017 12:00
Thanks! Follow-up question. While not on the tested list would something like the Samsung 850 EVO - 500GB - M.2 SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-N5E500BW) also work in the M.2 slots?
Alienware-Eimy
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January 17th, 2017 17:00
It is not validated so we can not confirm functionality. You can ask in other forums like AlienwareArena and see if another user has already tried.
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October 23rd, 2017 10:00
Is there an updated list? Anything tested that is compatible with the 2242 2x slot? What can we put there?
Also testing the Samsung EVO would be very helpful as this is a popular SSD.