Hi, I'm an Aurora R4 owner who has just purchased an Alienware 14 for when I need to game on the go.
The item shipped with a 750GB SATA HDD, but I'd like to add an SSD drive to the laptop to act as the boot and application disk.
I'm unclear as to whether this is possible, however. Even after a call to Dell parts, I couldn't gauge whether it would be possible to add the SSD and keep the existing SATA HDD and the optical drive. There was some indication that I would need to remove the optical drive, but I'm unsure of whether this was a temporary removal in order to install the SSD, or whether there is not actually room for the SSD, HDD and optical drive in the laptop at the same time.
I've seen Alienware 14s specced with SSDs and SATA HDDs, so I'm assuming that it must be possible.
I'm a bit of a laptop newb. I can build a PC no problem, but don't have much experience pulling laptops apart and installing new parts, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
The item shipped with a 750GB SATA HDD, but I'd like to add an SSD drive to the laptop to act as the boot and application disk.
I'm unclear as to whether this is possible, however. Even after a call to Dell parts, I couldn't gauge whether it would be possible to add the SSD and keep the existing SATA HDD and the optical drive. There was some indication that I would need to remove the optical drive, but I'm unsure of whether this was a temporary removal in order to install the SSD, or whether there is not actually room for the SSD, HDD and optical drive in the laptop at the same time.
I've seen Alienware 14s specced with SSDs and SATA HDDs, so I'm assuming that it must be possible.
I'm a bit of a laptop newb. I can build a PC no problem, but don't have much experience pulling laptops apart and installing new parts, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
