Upgrading Defiance series

[Slinky69]

I have a defiance series laptop which I want to add some more storage to, spec below, is there a guide to opening up the laptop I can refer to? Ive had the keyboard off but didnt get any further as I was flying blind so to speak. Cheers.

Chassis & Display Defiance Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD 144Hz 72% NTSC LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™ i7 Six Core Processor 8750H (2.2GHz, 4.1GHz Turbo)
Memory (RAM) 16GB Corsair 2666MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2070 Max-Q - 8.0GB GDDR6 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1
1st Storage Drive 1TB Samsung 860 QVO 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
1st M.2 SSD Drive 256GB INTEL® 760p M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (upto 3210MB/sR | 1315MB/sW)
Memory Card Reader Integrated 6 in 1 Card Reader (SD /Mini SD/ SDHC / SDXC / MMC / RSMMC)
AC Adaptor 1 x 180W AC Adaptor Battery Defiance Series 4 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (62WH)
Power Cable 1 x 1 Metre Cloverleaf UK Power Cable
Thermal Paste COOLER MASTER MASTERGEL MAKER THERMAL COMPOUND
Sound Card 2 Channel High Definition Audio + MIC/Headphone Jack Bluetooth & Wireless
GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® AC-9260 M.2 (1.73Gbps, 802.11AC) +BT 5.0
USB/Thunderbolt Options 2 x USB 3.1 PORTS (Type C) + 2 x USB 3.1 PORTS
Keyboard Language RGB BACKLIT UK KEYBOARD

 

[Scanian]

I think that is actually described in the manual you got with it. Otherwise I believe I have seen some guide on YouTube or notebookcheck.com. I will get an extra 1 TB M.2 in the coming week that I will plug in. Maybe I can be of help when I've done it.

 

[Bhuna50]

If you log into your PCS account and go to the Upgrades page (linked on the right hand side), you will get some choices on what can be upgraded. You can then choose to send it in or have the parts sent to you.

 

[Scanian]

If you log into your PCS account and go to the Upgrades page (linked on the right hand side), you will get some choices on what can be upgraded. You can then choose to send it in or have the parts sent to you.

Thanks for the info, mate. I didn't know that. That's quite handy. This time I was disloyal and shopped my disc from another dealer. But it is within specs and it shouldn't be a problem.

 

[Bhuna50]

I think on the Defiance, you have to undo the bottom and the discs go in there - on my old Defiance (II), the keyboard made way for extra memory not hard drives.

I dont know what spare space you have though sorry as chassis will be different to my old Defiance and I dont have it any more..

 

[Slinky69]

To get into the defiance you undo all the screws on the bottom, 2(might be 3) of which release the keyboard, then remove the keyboard (this might require popping up from the underside of the laptop). Then once the keyboard is removed it reveals more screws to remove which allows the case to split revealing the drives M2 and Sata and battery etc. Cant remember if it was the top or bottom that came off tbh but it wasnt hard once all the screws were out.

Never noticed the upgrades bit, cheers