Alpha HDD to SSD upgrade

Hey, I just bought an Alienware Alpha and after talking to the support team, I have been informed that the included HARD disk is a disk 3.5 ".

Does anyone know if you he could move to a 2.5 "SSD, via support or something similar? I would be very interested in doing this.

Thank you all!

Can confirm that you have wrong information to the support team.

The alpha has a 2.5 drive ", I replaced the stock drive in mine with an SSD, I picked up from NewEgg with absolutely NO problem 2.5"

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