Location of the Alienware 17 SSD drive?

I own an Alienware 17 that I bought in January this year.  It came with an SSD of 256 MB.  That I found woefully inadequate for my purposes.  I'm at the clean temporary files every day so that I do not fill the drive.  I bought a new 1 TB Samsung SATA III SSD, but I can't find where the current SSD is installed.  There are two ports for HDD1 and HDD2 which are easily accessible.  I've added two 1 TB drives to these two, but I have no idea where the SSD is without tearing the laptop all out to find.  I watched the reference owners manual and there IS NO remove OR replace the SSD drive?

Thank you

Have

The only left port is the mSATA located under the palm rest.

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