“I just picked this up & looking at it without taking it apart, can someone tell me where the SSD & HDD are located? For the life of me, I cannot see them, thanks for any help.”
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The NVMe is the black heatsink covered stick right below the CPU and above the graphics card. It is kinda underneath the cpu cooler, but it sticks out beyond it. It is labelled Gen4 M2. The harddrive is a 2.5" (laptop size) drive and can be found inside the black box at the bottom.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Take the back cover off to get at the HDD in the bottom area. The screws holding it in place are underneath the case. The SSD is an M.2 style SSD which means it looks like a stick of RAM that lays flat on the motherboard. It is underneath the long black metal piece just underneath the CPU (see picture).
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Western Digital WD 512GB SSD PC SN530 M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe SDBPNPZ-512G Solid State Drive If this is the one installed its Gen3. Benchmark and save/print run. Upgrade like I did to 1tb or 2tb Gen4, and swap HDD out for 2.5 SSD 1 Tb or higher. I went with M.2 WD BLACK SN 850 1Tb, Benchmark again, save/print. I get twice the read/write speeds in benchmark runs. Very happy
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