HDD add for Nitro AN515-53-55G9

SneakyNinchilla

After wrestling with the technological changes since I last dealt with computers (circa 2009), I've learned a lot!  M.2 is a thing?  That's neat.  Apparently you youngsters use SSD in everything.  Right on.

So this nifty laptop has an empty bay for a 2.5.  Because the OS is on my SSD, All I really want to do is keep 100gb or so free on that for a favorite game or two for fast loading. Everything else I'm fine with storing on the old school version.

So I I found this:  

Seagate BarraCuda 5TB Internal Hard Drive HDD – 2.5 Inch SATA 6Gb/s 5400 RPM 128MB Cache for Computer Desktop PC (ST5000LM000)

5TB?!  Currently listed at $158?!  I'll spare you all the "back in my day" speech.  But seriously...Back in my day...

So I want it.  Do I need it?  Hell no.  But I love the idea of the quantity.

WIll it fit?  Yes, the form factor is 2.5"  But this sucker is thick, right?  3.95 x 2.75 x 0.59 in to be precise.  Almost twice the thickness of 2TB.

MartinJohn00001

@SneakyNinchilla
Hi, Kindly find the HDD information of your unit below.




       I hope this information is useful for you.

Mainerunr

Not sure about your laptop but I know the hdd bracket for mine fit my ssd (and it fit perfectly, the ssd is only 7.5mm too), it might have fit a standard 9.5mm hdd but no way would it have fit a 12.5mm.  Actually, I do not think I have seen any device made to accept a 2.5" drive that would take a 12.5mm thick drive.

Luckily my next storage upgrade will be a second m.2 ssd but I should not need that for a little while anyway.  My boot drive is a 500gb m.2 SSD, my data drive is a 500gb 2.5" ssd.

jGecko

Have you run into any sleep/hibernation issues since you installed the HDD?

I'm having a major power issue since I changed my drive configuration and this can be a possible "heads-up" to you or perhaps you have some info that can help my situation.

I recently switched the 2nd drive in my AN515-53-55G9 from an HDD to an SSD, and battery life went all to hell.

The worst symptom just occurred and I've been unable to figure this out. All power profiles have been reviewed and "wake-ups" etc suppressed...really a "shouldn't matter" as this was a very short event.

I had 99% battery charge remaining with estimated about 2hrs 30min of use, when I used the keyboard power key to select to put it in "sleep" mode. All things looked like it entered "sleep" (display, keyboard backlight, etc all off). No devices attached. WiFi SHOULD have been sleeping...didn't think to confirm at the router manager...but even so...

I came back 2 hours later and restarted using the keyboard power key to wake the laptop...only to find it reported ZERO charge left "official low battery" and shut itself down. I plugged it into a charger and it shows charging from 0%. I then powered-"off" using the keyboard power key to reboot and see if the battery sensor was simply misfiring. Nope...after reboot still shows 0% and charging.

Note: the display was visible and OFF all the time during the 2 hour "sleep" period and the computer never "woke-up" or at least never showed visible signs it was operational and not sleeping. No record of any updates being performed while "asleep".

Before changing from 1TB 7200rpm HDD to 1TB SSD (Samsung QVO 960) I had been getting about 5 hours on battery. After swapping the SSD in and removing the HDD, battery life instantly went down to about 2.5 hours on a full charge. Swapping in the SSD and removing the HDD was the only hardware change I had made and I didn't change power settings. When NOT reading/writing, power consumption is about the same for the two drives. When writing, the SSD is fractionally higher. While sleeping, I would assume the power consumption would be the same or lower by the SSD according to the HDD and SSD specs.

This really doesn't make any sense.

I'll soon try removing the SSD and re-installing the HDD in its place to see if things go back to normal, but I'd hope someone has some experience on this and can tell what's going on?