Alienware X17 R2 Upgrading SSD and RAM

In this video we show you how to upgrade the SSDs and RAM to the Max in the X17 r2.

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[richterx]

With so many people complaining about this laptop I was worried I made a mistake ordering it. Glad you choose to keep it and upgrade it as that means it was obviously working well for you. Didn't go with the 4K version as I'm only going to be using this for gaming and my only real concern is gaming related as such. Meaning I have to figure out how I'm going to go about getting the 10TB worth of games installed given there isn't enough space.

Likely going to have to go with the external drives I've already been using though I haven't shopped around for anything in about 2 years. Meaning hopefully, they have better options at small sizes than the 5GB Western Digital drives on the market. If not, I'm probably just going to make a M2 external drive as I ought to be able to use 4 of those in 1 housing around the same size as my current drives, though I'll have to figure out how to power and cool them in this kind of configuration. Anyway, will look around your channel to see if you covered portable storage options with this kind of use case. Not sure if it's a good idea to use a NAS and hotswap files on the fly given the writes might damage the drives, though I'm only saying this as it might be a good idea to cover such things as I don't see anyone covering it. Use to have to do this on the daily with smartphones as they wouldn't allow you to store apps on the expandable storage for them. So you'd basically just run some software to more or less hotlink files or outright swap files from one drive to the another during the use.

Off chance you read this, sorry. I just woke up. Put more words than needed and I know it.

[TestingSuff]

Got mine with 32gb ram and the 1tb ssd. Added a wad 850 2tb for games. Was the sweet spot for me !. I still wish the build quality was the same as the x14 !

[realbarz]

Great Content..Very Very Useful...Thanks A Bunch ✊️👊💯✌️

[michaelcarter]

Have you figured out how to make the speakers work? Mine sounds like mud when it's not crackling. It's enough to send it back.

[johnsellars]

Great job, I enjoy your videos a lot.

[killermouse]

hi. great video. lots of great videos. i've been out of touch with PC stuff for so long that i'm practically a novice, so trying to learn a lot. i'm looking to buy the x17 r2, and going upgrade to use 2 x 4tb wd black sn850x. i've seen it done on other channels, but more amateurish. but you seen to indicate it isn't viable to use greater than 2tb. could you please indicate if you think using 2 x 4tb wd black sn850x would be possible / impossible / viable / unviable? and you refer to a previous video where you replace ssd rather than clone it, could you provide a link please? thank you

[reaktorleak]

Ok, so the X15 is soldered ram. But the X17 is removable?? I'm interested now. What an odd choice by Alienware.

[BMOO]

Hello, I just bought the Alienware x17 r2 with 1tb of storage. Can i just buy one 2tb ssd and that way have a total storage of 3tb? Or do both drives have to use the same amount?

[krisadams]

You can clone with dells recovery press f12 right as you power up the laptop
Also crucial has a 4tb ssd. Crucial says it is compatible. I'm going to try it out and set it up in a striped raid array to achieve 8TB going by your directions on how to set up RAID!

They are 21% off today both the RAM and SSD Amazon

[RhinoSmash]

It has 2 gen 4 I thought only slot 0 was gen four? How do I find out what I have?

[MabalGT]

Asking for Bitlocker key after booting with cloned ssd