Notebooks & Netbooks

[AcerForumer]

Hi,

I'm actively thinking of purchasing a R7-572. But does it have a mSata ssd slot? I saw one French ecommerce website that seems to say to, as they sell it with a 1To HDD + 24Go SSD ( http://www.rueducommerce.fr/Ordinateurs/Ordinateur-Portable/Ordinateur-Portable-Grand-Public/ACER/49... ) but other websites say it's not likely (but they didn't open the laptop)...

Any idea about the subject?

[septitank]

You are thinking about having the OS on mSata and everything else on included harddisk versus having everything on SSD ?

1) According to http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/system-requirements the OS requires 20 GB, so if the mSata is only 24 GB, it leaves little room for modifications. 

2) SSD is more quite.

[mazen]

Yes, it has mSata slot. If you are in the U.S u must have the 1TB version wich is not bad and fast enough for regular use at the begining but, i u use your r7 with a heavy programs like editing and similar you need a faster speed drive.

For me i will install a 120GB mSata using it as storage and for faster access.

Good luck

[AcerForumer]

@mazen: Just to confirm, are you speaking about the R5-572 and not the 571? And did you have the possibility to check it by yourself or where did you find the info? I actually saw the 571 indeed have a mSata slot, but I'm not sure about the 572... Regards

[mazen]

maybe it was V7 582PG that i was talking about, i will check my r7 and return to you.

[AcerForumer · Accepted solution]

I have received my R7-572 in the meantime, and I can confirm:

Despite what Acer's technical support told me (!!!),

Yes, the Acer R7-572 has a mSata slot. I tested it and it works well. With it, the R7-572 is fully silent : trully marvelous.

I actually hesitated with the Vaio Flip, which has strong positive points as well, but Vaio Flip suffers so much from its noisy fan that it was a blocking point for me.

[jra166]

I am planning on adding an SSD to my R7.  What models do you reccomend, or have you had success with? 

[greg1]

I have the R7-572-6423 and I don't recall seeing any mSATA slot.  What is your model number?  Does yours have 2 slots for RAM?

[greg1]

http://community.acer.com/t5/Notebooks-Netbooks/Aspire-R7-572-Stylus-RAM-upgrade-Hard-Drive-upgrade/...

[AcerForumer]

I installed a Crucial m500 480Go, and my R7 is precisely a R7-572-54208G75ASS. Yet, I believe they all have the same motherboard, and so can all receive a msata. To install the msata disk was just a question of removing the 13 torx screws, opening the case and inserting the msata card - trivial, and done in 5 min.

This is a picture of the R7-571 (found on Anadtech), not of the 572 but they are exactly the same with the single difference being that there is a 2nd slot of RAM for the R572. As far as the other components are concerned, inlcuding the msata, there are exactly at the same location.

So I have both a 480 ssd (msata) drive and a regular 750Go drive on the laptop, the latter being seldom used (big movies, backup, virtual machines...).