Does the Acer Aspire 5 laptop support Optane memory?

[RenaKry]

Dave2D mentioned that his 7th gen Aspire 5 in his review here: 

that all the NVMe drives he tried in this laptop didn't work, however, I speculate hope that it Optane support is unaffected by this fact as the slot is only keyed in M, which indicates (at least physical) support for PCIe drives. His laptop is also a last generation laptop, so that might make a difference in compatibility. I don't currently own this laptop, however, it is one I plan to purchase in the future and I am just researching and collecting undocumented information on its features.

 

The reason why I didn't ask Acer directly is because on their Amazon listing for the 8th gen model of this laptop they said they only tested up to a 256GB SATA M.2 drive, so I figured I shouldn't bother them with a redundant question.

 

Any brave souls out there willing to spend a little bit of time and money to try and install Optane memory in this particular series of laptops and report back if it works or not? Perhaps a BIOS hack might work in theory.

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

RTFM...

(read the freaking manual)

 

if it supports it, it's in the manual.. 

[genexis_x]

It doesn't support NVMe drives. Optane requires NVMe protocol