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    P35W v3 adding HDD/SSD

    Discussion in 'Gigabyte and Aorus' started by MJBarnes, Jan 12, 2015.

  1. MJBarnes

    MJBarnes Notebook Geek

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    Hello, all.

    Picked up one of these last week and so far, moderately please. Definitely does not ha the aesthetic appeal (at least to me as an Alienware; however, price to performance ration is high.

    Anyway, I would like to add additional storage. I have done his successfully using the hot swappable DVD drive bay and that works great! Can I also add an additional 2.5" HDD internally? I thought I read somewhere that I could.

    Anyone know which screws to remove from the bottom of the laptop in order to add another drive? Also, does the laptop already contain all the plug and play hardware needed to simply slide in an additional drive?

    Thanks much.
     
    MJBarnes, Jan 12, 2015
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  2. markjk7

    markjk7 Notebook Guru

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    I think You only have two HDD bays, the one with the standard HDD and the hot swap HDD/ODD bay, then you have the two mSATA spaces which I think it's reasonably easy to add another drive into if you only have one at present.

    Have a look in the P35x thread there is a guide about repasting recently that should help with removing screws to take the back off. I've still not opened mine up so can't help with this.
     
    markjk7, Jan 13, 2015
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