Is it possible to upgrade the Alienware hard drive?
Hello dear community,
I have an Alienware m15 p79f001 gaming laptop.
The following hard drives are currently installed:
kxg60znv512g nvme toshiba (512gb)
st1000lx015-1u7172 (1TB)
Here is an excerpt from the manual:
Am I right in thinking that I could only upgrade the 512GB SSD to a 1TB SSD?
And maybe you could also swap the 1TB hard drive for a 1TB SSD?
I've already removed the battery, which theoretically means there would be room for a third hard drive, but if I see it correctly, that's not possible?!
What bothers me most is the performance of the second hard drive. Almost all of my games are installed on it, and loading takes a miserably long time! (According to the task manager, it's always at 99-100% capacity when starting games.)
In the second instance, more space is of course also cool 😀
Thank you in advance!
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Hello,
you have 3 different hard drives slots.
Of which 2 different M.2.
The SATA Seagate FireCuda is a hybrid SSHD 1TB with 64GB cash.
She’s running over the M.2 Intel Optane?
That’s “double pooping”.
There is no wonder that newer games are loaded so slowly.
So it would be easiest to replace the M.2 Toshiba XG6 NVMe.
And maybe the second M.2 slot.
Then you make two 1TB M.2 NVMe memory in,
and shut down the Sata SSHD Seagate Lauwerk.
You can then use the SSHD with corresponding adapters as an external drive.
Or you replace the SSHD with a 1TB SSD.
With only one M.2 1TB NVMe.
Hope this is about the same:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOec3LWPuFI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94ybJagrf2M
Hansi
Thank you for the detailed dog quick help:) Do I understand that the Toshiba is then an M.2 SSD and the other HDD is a 2.5 inch hard drive? And I could expand another M.2 free slot, for example, with an M.2 1TB SSD?
This would have to go: Other
? If I take this right from the manual I can’t install M.2 2TB or more hard drive right?
Thanks again for the help! 🙂 LG
Hello,
you always have to SATA; M.2 NVMe and M.2 AHCI.
These are three different things.
For the NVMe then on its controller and firmware (or updates).
The easiest way is to get a Samsung NVMe M.2 980Pro 1TB. Samsung builds its own controller, also for others like Crucial.
If they don’t work, you can still give them back.
And not such a cheap M.2 NVMe from “who weis where from”.
The device is no longer so deaf.
2TB NVMe could work.
Just try.
Hansi
Well,
the same controllers and the same clock speed,
makes the CPU easier, and everything becomes much more liquid.
Especially at Shooter Ballergames.
Hansi
I’m still thinking: what advantage do I have in it two M.2 of the same type? At the RAM, I was aware that only at the hard drive I’ve never heard that before?! At the moment, I’ll leave the 512 on it because I’m too lazy to replay the operating system 😂😂😂🙌
Because of the manual, I would not have dared to order a 2 TB.
who arrived yesterday, built it and then got to run!
thank you all and especially you Hansi 🙂
LG from the Westerwald
Both of you!
Renew the 1TB SSHD.
Enlarge the NVme.
Clon the two NVMe if you can.
Or just reimbursed, because the alien should be one,
have electronic key.
But that’s another story.
Can be done gradually.
Only replace the SSHD with an SSD.
👽👽👽
Hani
Yesterday I extended the RAM from 16 to 32 gb 🙂
Do you mean the SSHD the 1TB or the 512gb toshiba?
then I would have to devote myself to the topic that Windows is installed on it and I have no idea how to get the operating system on the new disk (Windows was already pre-installed 😅)
I’d do that.
I can talk. I had a thing hanging on the wall.
Otherwise, I’ll take Crucial, because they’re running with HP.
And exchange the SSHD for an HDD.
Expanding RAM would also be useful.
Hansi
Ok then I just test the Samsung with 2tb 👍 thank you very much!
I would be interested in the performance of the two hard drives. Can you benchmark them with CrystalDiskMark and upload the screenshots of the results here? Thank you.
I uploaded the picture to my question. Until this is released here the text:
—————–
CrystalDiskMark 8.0.5 x64 (C) 2007-2024 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World: https://crystalmark.info/
—————–
* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes
[Read]
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 3276.035 MB/s [ 3124.3 IOPS] < 2549.91 us>
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 2516.110 MB/s [ 2399.5 IOPS] < 416.37 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 432.249 MB/s [ 105529.5 IOPS] < 293.51 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 44,500 MB/s [ 10864.3 IOPS] < 91.82 us>
[Write]
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 2938.956 MB/s [ 2802.8 IOPS] < 2844.97 us>
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 2466.260 MB/s [ 2352.0 IOPS] < 424.66 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 302.676 MB/s [ 73895.5 IOPS] < 419.02 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 105.773 MB/s [ 25823.5 IOPS] < 38.54 us>
Profile: Default
Test: 1 GiB (x5) [C: 30% (139/457GiB)]
Mode: [Admin]
Time: Measure 5 sec / Interval 5 sec
Date: 2024/04/18 14:14:38
OS: Windows 11 Pro 23H2 [10.0 Build 22631] (x64)
Okay, thanks, this is the fast 512 GB SSD. How are the values of 1 TB hard drive?
Very tidy for a HDD.
Hansi
Well, that’s why it’s all so badly marching, the 1 TB HDD is 24 times slower than your m.2 NVMe!
Otherwise, you can do it as Kerner has described it to you.
Good luck!
Well,
enough time for a coffee.
Hansi
This was only the SSD 😀 Unfortunately
—————–
CrystalDiskMark 8.0.5 x64 (C) 2007-2024 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World: https://crystalmark.info/
—————–
* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes
[Read]
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 135.056 MB/s [ 128.8 IOPS] < 61549.48 us>
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 133.095 MB/s [ 126.9 IOPS] < 7873.11 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 1.631 MB/s [ 398.2 IOPS] < 78861.63 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 0.832 MB/s [ 203.1 IOPS] < 4913.02 us>
[Write]
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 114.404 MB/s [ 109.1 IOPS] < 72645.83 us>
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 121.169 MB/s [ 115.6 IOPS] < 8643.16 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 0.223 MB/s [ 54.4 IOPS] <524884.54 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 0.195 MB/s [ 47.6 IOPS] < 20177.55 us>
Profile: Default
Test: 1 GiB (x5) [D: 47% (440/931GiB)]
Mode: [Admin]
Time: Measure 5 sec / Interval 5 sec
Date: 2024/04/18 15:02:20
OS: Windows 11 Pro 23H2 [10.0 Build 22631] (x64)