Help please

[johnross]

I am looking to upgrade my laptops on board storage (acer Nitro AN515-54) I contacted Acer and they told me all they could guarantee would work is a 500 gb nvme drive. obviously i need more space than that. is there any way to tell if it can handle a 4 or even 8 TB nvme drive? or does size even matter?

thanks

[Windows7ge]

It should work but lets first ask the question why do you need 4 to 8TB of storage in your laptop?

[johnross]

im getting into deepfakes. (replacing james bond with mr bean) i can use an external drive but its much slower and a major PITA to lug around with me

[Windows7ge]

6 minutes ago, johnross said:

im getting into deepfakes. (replacing james bond with mr bean) i can use an external drive but its much slower and a major PITA to lug around with me

Do you plan to make some sort of money off of this? That's gonna be an awfully expensive upgrade for the sake of some comedic videos.

[johnross]

naaa just for me

for now

[Windows7ge]

7 minutes ago, johnross said:

naaa just for me

for now

Well, as far as I'm aware unless a BIOS limiter was implemented deliberately a standard UEFI system should recognize, and be able to boot to a 4 or 8TB GPT partition.

 

Even if it cant if the drive is recognized you can use it as a D:\ drive. It should function the same just have to point the software to that drive.

[johnross]

kk thank you

 

[Archer42]

Few things to be aware of:

 

Which form-factor is used in laptop (2280?)? Larger one (22110 for example) obviously will not fit.

 

Does SSD have to be single-sided? Sometimes there might not be enough space for it to fit if it is doble-sided (which large m.2 will probably be).

 

Heat. Some SSD-s generate more heat than other, and if you are planning to do large writes regularly overheating might become an issue in laptop.

 

So in terms of software and interface compatibility size does not matter, but physical characteristics might be very important for laptop.