Upgrade SSD in Iconia W510

Scatt

Hello Everyone

 

The 64GB SSD in the Acer Iconia W510 was filled up in no time at all.  I had to uninstall the supplied MS Office as no room. Despite that the Iconia was rather an expensive piece of kit at the time of purchase, Acer are no help and say as its a tablet it can't be upgraded.  I suppose they mean officially!  

 

This article about the W500 32GB is really helpful, but as its not the same model I don't know whether to be brave enough to just try.  http://www.tweaking4all.com/hardware/pc/ssd-upgrade-for-acer-iconia-tab-w500/

 

As an example the Crucial site states that there is nothing compatible at all for W500 or W510 although in the above articule many people have used that brand.

 

Has anyone successfully upgraded the W510 please?  Can you share your experience? 

 

Thank you

billsey

It's been a while since I was in a W510 last, but what I remember was that unlike the earlier W500, the on-board flash EMMC was not replacable without replacing the motherboard.

 

You can, however, put much larger SD cards in than specs calls for. 64GB, 128GB and 256GB are all on the table.

Scatt

Thank you for the reply.  I have always had a 64GB SD card, as that was the maximum in the specs, but I can try a bigger one.  It would be so good though if I could upgrade the mSATA. 

 

At the moment I am worrying about prying the two sections apart to have a look, then that will settle it for me.  Dam nuisance if the mSATA is soldered.

padgett

128GB SD works in my W510.

 

ps ones I've seen were soldered.

 

 

 

Scatt

Thank you very much for confirming the 128GB SD card works.  I don't like to waste money and I can't exactly return it once its been removed from its blister pack.  I would love to try 256GB but 128 will be a huge improvement.  In hindsight it would have been a whole lot cheaper to have bought a windows tablet and a blue tooth keyboard, the attraction of the 'up to 18 hours battery life' was too compelling at the time 

padgett

Amazon has quite a selection of inexpensive folding cases with a wired keyboard in several different sizes.

Scatt

Yes.  At the time I really wanted the Surface Pro - but didn't buy as no facility for SD cards etc.  The Iconia had SD card and USB port (plus 1 x USB in KB) so it was a very useful little machine.  I just didn't grasp how quickly I would fill up the storage of a 64GB SD card and the remaining storage on the mSATA.  Especially as I am not using it as my main machine. 

 

I really fancy the Surface Pro4 but would want the big HD, so that's very big money - so shan't be going there for the time being.

padgett

Depends on how you use it. I keep all recovery and install media seperately on all of my tabs & phone & each has all the SD card it can handle. And then I have a couple of terabyte mobile drives for backups, .ISOs, and images.

 

Travelling I carry either an Aspire One or a Switch 12 but can do anything on my smart phone so they are more for screen size, real keyboard, and mouse.

 

 

Scatt

Microsoft Office will not install anywhere but C Drive - even though I would prefer to put it on D Drive.  Perhaps it is possible for me to use a 128GB SD card and configure with Disc Management to swap C and D over.

 

I didn't understand >> I keep all recovery and install media seperately on all of my tabs<<   What do you mean by 'install media?'  I would back up files onto external media anyway, wouldn't everyone? 

padgett

Was referring to .isos and .msis used to install things. Only needed executables are on the C: drive

 

BTW OFFICE executables install on C: but can point all file storage elsewhere. I grew up with mainframes and am used to a locked down C: and an open with many subdirectories and not a single "my documents" area.

 

Creating such a machine is non-trivial but only needs to be done once. Of course I have no use for the cloud. What was more difficult (have to watch closely on install) was using only local accounts.