Alienware 17 R4 mod
!! WARNING !! If you do this it WILL void warranty and support.
This mod involves a dremel Stanley knife steady, precise hands and observation what you doing.
This is my latest mod on my 17-R4 unit late 2018 model, i7 8720HK, 32 GB Ram GTX 1080, 4K UHD display, Tobii, Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut repaste. I have tree years warranty still as i have a spare (rib cage) for mine and all modification can be made seemless if i need to. The factory 1TB HGST drive become puny , the 2TB seagate mobile drives.... well i had 4 of them failed on me recently. so, reliability is questionable at this point, the 4TB wd drives dont have SATA ports so the only one I could trust and i could fit, is a 4TB BarraCuda from a USB 3.0 enclosure LOL
1 st I've cut out the bottom base of the hdd bay to accommodate a non standard 15mm 2.5" Seagate Barracuda ST4000LM024 4TB for storage.
2 nd cut out the SSD1 slot base cover that was wrong totally reducing the bay to a 2242 m.2 slot which is useless as it is. Making space for a full 2280 drive in the future.
3 rd creating a mounting bracket for the screw hole that will fix the 2280 drive in the bay.
4 Put the laptop back together and enjoy.
All sockets working fine with NVMe and SATA drives too.
!! WARNING !! If you do this it WILL void warranty and support.
This mod involves a dremel Stanley knife steady, precise hands and observation what you doing.
This is my latest mod on my 17-R4 unit late 2018 model, i7 8720HK, 32 GB Ram GTX 1080, 4K UHD display, Tobii, Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut repaste. I have tree years warranty still as i have a spare (rib cage) for mine and all modification can be made seemless if i need to. The factory 1TB HGST drive become puny , the 2TB seagate mobile drives.... well i had 4 of them failed on me recently. so, reliability is questionable at this point, the 4TB wd drives dont have SATA ports so the only one I could trust and i could fit, is a 4TB BarraCuda from a USB 3.0 enclosure LOL
1 st I've cut out the bottom base of the hdd bay to accommodate a non standard 15mm 2.5" Seagate Barracuda ST4000LM024 4TB for storage.
2 nd cut out the SSD1 slot base cover that was wrong totally reducing the bay to a 2242 m.2 slot which is useless as it is. Making space for a full 2280 drive in the future.
3 rd creating a mounting bracket for the screw hole that will fix the 2280 drive in the bay.
4 Put the laptop back together and enjoy.
All sockets working fine with NVMe and SATA drives too.
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