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    4th Hard Drive for 17

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by alienwolf, Jul 29, 2013.

  1. alienwolf

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    Anyone or even a Rep have an Idea on where to purchase and or model number of the hard drive to replace the Blu-Ray. I have not been able to find any posts on the 17 to do this. I have read and heard that it can be done. Any info would be nice. :thumbsup:
     
    alienwolf, Jul 29, 2013
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    flingin M17x R2 Mafia

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    You can buy a special battery pack for your 17 that has no battery inside just 4 places for hard drives, looks just like oryginal battery, small thin ribbon goes inside your lappy and you can connect it to msata port.
    a new thing for new 17

    Hope that helps.
     
    flingin, Jul 29, 2013
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    alienwolf, Jul 30, 2013
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  4. flingin

    flingin M17x R2 Mafia

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    You know bro, that with this battery thing, it was pure Trolling :)

    anyways, nice find, and...for what do you need so much space ? 750GB is already a lot of space for obscene videos :D... in FULL HD or 4K even !
     
    flingin, Jul 30, 2013
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  5. alienwolf

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    Kind of thought it was..lol what good is the extra HDD if you can not run on Battery any more..:laugh:
    I have a lot of games and photos..I do not see a lot of reason for a Blu-Ray. Thinking of Raiding the 500g 840 so I would need another drive.
     
    alienwolf, Jul 30, 2013
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  6. mmolteratx

    mmolteratx Notebook Consultant

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    Price is a little high. $10 is the most I'd pay for one. Here's one for $8.49 plus .99¢ shipping.

    Universal 12 7mm SATA 2nd HDD Hard Driver Caddy for DVD CD ROM Optical Drive Bay | eBay
     
    mmolteratx, Jul 30, 2013
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    flingin M17x R2 Mafia

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    flingin, Jul 30, 2013
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  8. Alienware-L_Porras

    Alienware-L_Porras Company Representative

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    6CTX5 is the part number for the caddy in our internal system.
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Aug 1, 2013
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  9. alienwolf

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    Thanks for the part number.. :D

    Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk 2
     
    alienwolf, Aug 2, 2013
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    netinbd Notebook Consultant

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    DSC_0007.jpg
    nothing also included just aluminium badge

    40usd from dell
     
    netinbd, Sep 21, 2013
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  11. alienwolf

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    Wow thats an awful lot glade I found one that would work on ebay was like 18 bucks.. ;)
     
    alienwolf, Sep 21, 2013
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    Newegg.com - hdd caddy

    I have bought one which is 12.7 mm from newegg and got it for about $10. Anything within that size (or even smaller like 9.5 mm), it will work just fine.
     
    juliant, Sep 22, 2013
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