Acer Helios 500 Nvme i9 ph517-51

PsychoSlayer

Anyone know if this drive will work on the Acer helios 500 i9 ph517-51 for an additional storage or even booting, Sabrent 1TB ROCKET NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 Internal SSD High Performance Solid State Drive (SB-ROCKET-1TB) ?

batmalin

Hi according to a previous post here see below it will not work as it is  3D TLC Nand.

"This model has Two M.2 card slots for NAND Flash Solid State Drive and supports :

512 GB / 1 TB, 2D NVMe, RAID 0 SSD

256 GB / 512 GB, PCIe Gen3 8 Gb/s up to 4 lanes, NVMe

128 / 256 / 512 GB, SATA 6 Gb/s"
 And below also the m2 support.

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PsychoSlayer

This is the one i want to buy,

https://www.wootware.co.za/sabrent-sb-rocket-1tb-rocket-1tb-m-2-2280-nvme-pci-e-3-0-solid-state-drive.html#product_tabs_review_tabbed
https://www.sabrent.com/product/SB-ROCKET-1TB/1tb-rocket-nvme-pcie-m-2-2280-internal-ssd-high-performance-solid-state-drive/#description

The sabrent is M.2, 2280, PCIe x4 lanes

Previous reply from ShadowDragonX: #Thanks

Greetings PsychoSlayer

I have the PH517-51 i7 variant. I installed two 2TB Samsung EVO 970 NVMe's and one 2TB Samsung QVO. I later changed them to two 1TB Samsung EVO Plus 970 NVMe's and one 4TB Samsung QVO. The QVO is a 2.5 inch SSD variant. I chose this setup as having 2TB on the NVMe's was unnecessary and the QVO is a data storage facility. The old drives are now externals and used as backups.

If you choose to get the same setup, ensure that what ever HDD/SSD you get, it MUST be the slim drive (7mm) or it won't fit. The cover won't close properly. Also, if you plan to overclock, consider upgrading the cooling of the NVMe's as it can get quite hot depending on who the manufacturer is of the NVMe. I found slim aluminum and copper heat sinks designed for NVMe's and to fit into laptops. You'd have to remove the stock copper heat sink from the Helios though. Also, when changing the drives, be careful with the screws. Mine were stuck into the mount and landed up unscrewing the mount with the drive so caution is advised as to not damage anything.

Another thing to consider is the RAM. I've upgraded mine to 32GB using Transcend RAM with the stock RAM. So far all has been great and it's been in use for over 1 year now without any problems.

Good luck and enjoy the powerhouse laptop.

Regards,
ShadowDragonX

batmalin

Well, if an user reported that 2tb is working with the system, I don`t see an issue why this one will not work and you can always return it if it is not working.

PsychoSlayer

This is the one i want to buy,

https://www.wootware.co.za/sabrent-sb-rocket-1tb-rocket-1tb-m-2-2280-nvme-pci-e-3-0-solid-state-drive.html#product_tabs_review_tabbed
https://www.sabrent.com/product/SB-ROCKET-1TB/1tb-rocket-nvme-pcie-m-2-2280-internal-ssd-high-performance-solid-state-drive/#description

The sabrent is M.2, 2280, PCIe x4 lanes as per the data,
256 GB / 512 GB, PCIe Gen3 8 Gb/s up to 4 lanes, NVMe????

Previous reply from ShadowDragonX: #Thanks

Greetings PsychoSlayer

I have the PH517-51 i7 variant. I installed two 2TB Samsung EVO 970 NVMe's and one 2TB Samsung QVO. I later changed them to two 1TB Samsung EVO Plus 970 NVMe's and one 4TB Samsung QVO. The QVO is a 2.5 inch SSD variant. I chose this setup as having 2TB on the NVMe's was unnecessary and the QVO is a data storage facility. The old drives are now externals and used as backups.

If you choose to get the same setup, ensure that what ever HDD/SSD you get, it MUST be the slim drive (7mm) or it won't fit. The cover won't close properly. Also, if you plan to overclock, consider upgrading the cooling of the NVMe's as it can get quite hot depending on who the manufacturer is of the NVMe. I found slim aluminum and copper heat sinks designed for NVMe's and to fit into laptops. You'd have to remove the stock copper heat sink from the Helios though. Also, when changing the drives, be careful with the screws. Mine were stuck into the mount and landed up unscrewing the mount with the drive so caution is advised as to not damage anything.

Another thing to consider is the RAM. I've upgraded mine to 32GB using Transcend RAM with the stock RAM. So far all has been great and it's been in use for over 1 year now without any problems.

Good luck and enjoy the powerhouse laptop.

Regards,
ShadowDragonX