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The stock Micron drive shipped in the m15 (made by Crucial’s parent company) isn’t exactly a stellar performer and I’d expect many customers to buy the minimum storage configuration and install two high-performance 1Tb or 2Tb SSDs. This is something of a bugbear I have with Alienware systems. Inside you’ll find whatever SSDs are fit in your stock build and you might also notice the distinct lack of spare heatshields for the unpopulated SSDs. Despite the SSDs being the only thing that’s supposed to be user-serviceable (lots of m15 owners will re-apply thermal paste), Alienware have gone to great lengths to make opening this machine straightforward.įurther clips release along the front edge of the baseplate, and it lifts off cleanly. While unscrewing the base, the captive screws also cause the central plastic clips to release automatically – effectively prying the panel off – which is a really nice touch. This is handy, since during the course of my testing I have removed and replaced the bottom panel of the Alienware m15 r3 more times than I’d care to count. The two rear screws must be retrieved fully and set aside, but the remaining screws stay attached to the bottom panel. All of the screws required to access the bottom of the computer are cross-head and all but two of them are captive within the base. Fortunately the process is incredibly simple with the m15 r3. Fitting the SSDįirst thing’s first, you can’t test an SSD without sticking it into your computer. This is particularly curious because sequential reads are something that SSDs are particularly good at. I found during my tests that the P5 showed a weird performance profile that – while on a par with some of the numbers Crucial reported – appeared to exceed their own tests by quite some margin while insisting upon reporting sequential read speeds that fell far, far short of my expectations. To spoil it up front, it’s not exactly the most thrilling of adventures. In this article I’ll be walking you through my experience of the Alienware m15 r3 and Crucials “P5” CT1000P5SSD8 SSD. What I didn’t expect was to happen upon a mystery.
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We welcome everyone and value all of your opinions but attacking another member for their choice in brands will not be tolerated and will result in an immediate ban without warning.Upon finding out the Alienware m15 r3 included two 2280 NVMe SSD bays plus a smaller 2230 bay I figured it would be an excellent opportunity to get up to speed with the latest and greatest in absurdly-fast-storage-devices.
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