ALIENWARE 17 R2 Nvidia GTX 980M i7 4710HQ 8GB RAM 1TB Gaming Laptop (READ. bought a bunch of m.2 128gb SSDs for $28 each - have the SSD as the primary drive holding the OS. Dell Alienware M14X :: Laptop Taking Long Like 2 Minutes To Boot Mar 9, 2013. I bought second ssds for all my upgrades. I upgraded my 2012 macbook from hdd w/ 4 gb to SSD (primary) + HDD (storage) w/ 16gb - it's pretty damn excellent for speed.Īs for your machine -it would cost ~ $100 to upgrade it with additional ram and SSD (if you do it cheaply) you will notice a huge difference in performance.- remember the SSD doesn't have to be 512gb or anything over the top. so get the same speced memory as what you already have. RAM - it takes dual-channel DDR3 and usually for dual-channel configuration, the memory modules must be of the same type and capacity. Then in the bios boot from the ssd/caddy drive. You can remove the optical drive and install a SSD with a caddy (caddys are around $3 from aliexpress). According to the dell site it has space for a sata drive and a mSata drive.
