The Razer Blade 15 Dual Storage edition has a hybrid HDD/SSD drive

Razer’s premier gaming laptop is getting a big update.

Less than six months after releasing the Blade 15, Razer is already rolling out an update to its gaming laptop line with its new Blade 15 Dual Storage edition. 

If you couldn’t tell from its name, the Razer Blade 15 Dual Storage edition comes with two drives, a smaller SSD for performance and a larger hard drive for capacity. The Blade 15 Dual Storage edition is a little bit thicker than the earlier Blade 15 models because of this additional 2.5-inch drive, but Razer took advantage of the extra space by adding in a gigabit Ethernet port to improve connectivity. For a gaming laptop especially, this is more than an acceptable tradeoff. 

One visual aspect that most associate with Razer’s gaming computers is its Chroma lighting keyboard features. In its dual-storage models, the company is including a full single-zone RGB Chroma keyboard. This allows users to illuminate their entire keyboard with any one of 16.8 million colors. While the earlier Blade 15 laptops allowed users to select per-key colors, unlike the previous models, this new keyboard allows secondary functions, such as the “@” or “#” symbols, to be backlit as well.

Razer calls its Blade 15 line “the world’s smallest 15.6-inch gaming laptop” and the dual-storage version, weighing in at 4.48 pounds, is even a little lighter than its prior iterations. It has a full HD 60Hz display, up to 6 hours of battery life, packs an 8th-generation Intel Core i7 core processor, and has 16GB of dual-channel RAM. 

The Razer Blade 15 Dual Storage edition is available Oct. 10, and starts at $1,599 for a 128GB SSD and a 1TB HDD. At that price, the dual storage edition is a full $300 less than the earlier, higher-end Blade 15 models.

Fitting in nicely as an entry-level Razer gaming laptop, the company says that many of the qualities users have come to love about the Blade 15, like its performance and build, are kept intact in the dual-storage edition. And, for fans of the single storage model, there’s a Razer store exclusive Mercury White edition coming later this year.

While the dual-storage edition certainly does lose some cool features like the per-key Chroma option, it certainly makes up for it on the pricing end. We reviewed the Razer Blade 15 earlier this year and called it “damn close to being the perfect gaming laptop.” Razer’s latest dual storage offering will only open the door to its near-perfect gaming experience to the hardcore gamers who may have been priced out before.