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Aurora R10, drive bay confusion
I have a new Alienware Aurora R10, AMD Ryzen. I chatted with Dell about adding an additional HDD and SSD. Mine came with a 1TB HDD. There are two open drive bays. Per Dell support they said you can install either a 2.5" or 3.5" drive. I just opened it up today and I see no way to add a 3.5" HDD to either bay? I installed a 2.5" 2TB SSD in one bay and removed cage in the other bay. But if I use it for the larger bay without the cage it was just be loose. Did I get wrong info from Dell. If so I just ate the cost of an HDD bought back in December.
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Posted February 13th, 2021 19:00
Yes. You just have to lift up the LED wire in the back as the HDD caddy will go all the way in.
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Posted February 13th, 2021 19:00
"The same dell support agent said the max tb fir each drive is 2tb, hope that's right"
There is no 2TB limit to a storage drive. You can put a 6 TB storage drive in there if you want.
The 2TB issue only arises for a boot drive partition, if the boot drive is MBR.
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Posted February 13th, 2021 19:00
So i can install a 3.5 caddy where a 2.5 caddy was?
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Posted February 13th, 2021 19:00
According to the specs here you can have 2 x 2.5" drives and a single 3.5" drive. The 2 drive cages you see are for 2.5" drives. The 3.5" drive location is behind the PSU as shown in this picture on the support page. And on this pdf of the same pages (25-27) which is a bit clearer.
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Posted February 13th, 2021 19:00
Thanks for the clarification, looks like I'll have to swap out the 1 tb for the 2tb and buy another 2tb ssd 2.5. The same dell support agent said the max tb fir each drive is 2tb, hope that's right
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Posted February 13th, 2021 20:00
Think I'll forego that option, too green to mive wires and pop in caddy extensions, just hoping i hooked the one i put in correctly to an existing cable with 2 connectors. Thanks again for the help
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Posted February 13th, 2021 20:00
Crud, they even showed me the spec sheet with the maximum tb limit, otherwise i would have gotten a 4 or 6 tb ssd. Oh well, hey thanks for the help.
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Posted October 13th, 2021 11:00
I want 3.5" drives in those bottom bays - is there actually a caddy for it? I can't find them...
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Posted February 13th, 2021 19:00
@Sifu1961
The 3.5" HDD caddies and 2.5" HDD caddies are interchangeable. You can have up three 3.5" HDDs in the chasses, though that would add a lot of heat. You can buy another caddy on eBay.