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Kite591
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So I have see conflicting information about M.2 support for my laptop. I am completely new to the ssd market so apologizing in advice.

 

Crucial's memory advisor tool says my drive interface is SATA/M.2 and SATA version is SATA 3 - 6Gb/s. I also found an Acer forum where people said that they had added NVMe M.2 drives with no issue. Was just hoping to get some clarification. Attached is a picture of the slot in question incase that helps. 

 

System Specs:

Acer Nitro 5 AN515-51

Intel Core i5 7300HQ

8GB DDR4-2400 Kingston Ram

GTX 1050 4GB

 

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The physical socket is standard M.2 M-key. The logical interface supported by the motherboard (as you are saying) is SATA/AHCI.

 

Modern NVMe drives can also work in SATA/AHCI mode, but you will be IOPS/bandwidth/latency limited by the capabilities of the SATA/AHCI interface - you won't get PCIe Gen 3 x4 speeds.

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18 minutes ago, Kite591 said:

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10 minutes ago, 5x5 said:

The slot should work with NVMe drives according to NBC
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Acer-Nitro-5-7700HQ-GTX-1050-Ti-Laptop-Review.251846.0.html

10 minutes ago, jj9987 said:

The physical socket is standard M.2 M-key. The logical interface supported by the motherboard (as you are saying) is SATA/AHCI.

 

Modern NVMe drives can also work in SATA/AHCI mode, but you will be IOPS/bandwidth/latency limited by the capabilities of the SATA/AHCI interface - you won't get PCIe Gen 3 x4 speeds.

Agreed with both ^^^

 

This is what you want:

Crucial MX500 3D NAND M.2 Type 2280 Internal SSD  250GB/500GB/1TB

 

Go with the recommended in this case as mentioned the NVME would work but for the cost you will not see the performance.

 

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I actually have this one (Crucial MX200 250 GB M.2-2280) in my main rig as my C drive, it is very responsive.

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