Alienware's 2017 offerings keep their classic, angular spaceship cases from last year, but much has changed on the inside. The Alienware 17 R4 (starting at $1,299; tested at $1,949 and $2,599) now. Inside Alienware 17 R4 – disassembly, internal photos and upgrade options says The motherboard holds three M.2 PCIe NVMe-enabled SSD slots with one in our unit taken by a Toshiba M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD with 256GB capacity while the 2.5-inch HDD slot is taken by an HGST drive with 1TB capacity.

With DDR4 still being relatively new, and Alienware/Dell only claiming support for '16 GBs' of RAM, I strongly you suggest that you get picky when looking to upgrade to 32GBs. The memory controller that is included in the Skylake CPU packages can support 64 GBs of RAM, but the 17 R3 only has two memory slots. When you're downloading lots of games to your Alienware 17, you can fill up your storage space very quickly.The gaming notebook uses both an NVMe M.2 SSD and a traditional HDD, and both can be.

In this guide, I will disassemble an Alienware 17 R4. I will remove the bottom cover to upgrade the SSD, HDD, and RAM.

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There are two different types of screws, and I circled them with different colors.
Remove six screws (red) that securing the bottom cover to the laptop.
Loosen one screw (yellow). Insert a pick to pry up the bottom cover.

Under the bottom cover, you can get access to three M.2 SSD slots, two RAM slots, and a hard drive module.
From the picture you can see, Alienware 17 R4 comes with two M.2 2280 SSD slots (support SATA and PCIe SSD) and an M.2 2242 slot.

Here’s left the cooling fan.

The Alienware 17 R4 comes with two 8GB DDR4 2667MHz RAMs. According to Dell website information, it supports up to 32GB RAM, so you can replace it with 16GB DDR4 2667MHz RAM respectively.

Here’s hard drive module, it is securing to the laptop by four screws.

Here’s Toshiba 256GB PCIe SSD.

In this guide, I will disassemble an Alienware 17 R4. I will remove the bottom cover to upgrade the SSD, HDD, and RAM.

For the freshest produce, find us on Facebook for the latest teardown news.

There are two different types of screws, and I circled them with different colors.
Remove six screws (red) that securing the bottom cover to the laptop.
Loosen one screw (yellow). Insert a pick to pry up the bottom cover.

Under the bottom cover, you can get access to three M.2 SSD slots, two RAM slots, and a hard drive module.
From the picture you can see, Alienware 17 R4 comes with two M.2 2280 SSD slots (support SATA and PCIe SSD) and an M.2 2242 slot.

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Here’s left the cooling fan.

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The Alienware 17 R4 comes with two 8GB DDR4 2667MHz RAMs. According to Dell website information, it supports up to 32GB RAM, so you can replace it with 16GB DDR4 2667MHz RAM respectively.

Here’s hard drive module, it is securing to the laptop by four screws.

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Here’s Toshiba 256GB PCIe SSD.