SSD or HDD?Acer Nitro 7 AN715-51

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edited November 2023 in 2020 Archives
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  • Hawkseye502
    Hawkseye502 Member Posts: 3 New User
    edited December 2020 Answer ✓
    You want a SSD 100% if performance is your only concern. They do cost more, but they more than make up for it. Most HDD's you can stuff in a laptop are only bringing 130MB/s. SDD's start in the 200mb/s range and bring as much as 900mb/s bandwidth. Whether your laptop will support that on the other hand depends. You may only be able to get say 600mb/s from your system, wasting 300mb/s bandwidth capability and money's worth.

    I'm not familiar with the specifics to determine if it'll handle 900mb/s, but interfaces are a good start. When it comes to interfaces, those high end speeds are achieved with NVMe, but SATA is still decent. Looking at online specs, you have both slots.

    Someone more familiar with the system will have to chime in on how much of the NVMe bandwidth you can take advantage of.

    Hope I was of some help.


  • Hawkseye502
    Hawkseye502 Member Posts: 3 New User
    edited December 2020 Answer ✓
    Hawkseye502 said:
    You want a SSD 100% if performance is your only concern. They do cost more, but they more than make up for it. Most HDD's you can stuff in a laptop are only bringing 130MB/s. SDD's start in the 200mb/s range and bring as much as 900mb/s bandwidth. Whether your laptop will support that on the other hand depends. You may only be able to get say 600mb/s from your system, wasting 300mb/s bandwidth capability and money's worth.

    I'm not familiar with the specifics to determine if it'll handle 900mb/s, but interfaces are a good start. When it comes to interfaces, those high end speeds are achieved with NVMe, but SATA is still decent. Looking at online specs, you have both slots.

    Someone more familiar with the system will have to chime in on how much of the NVMe bandwidth you can take advantage of.

    Hope I was of some help.


    Correction, current best NVMe SSD is 7,000 MB/s read bandwith.

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  • brummyfan2
    brummyfan2 ACE Posts: 28,470 Trailblazer
    Hi,
    Could you please post the full model name of the laptop, like ANxxx-xx.

    Acer Predator PT516-51s Performance Results - UserBenchmark

  • Tadu894613
    Tadu894613 Member Posts: 4 New User
    Acer Nitro 7 AN715-51
  • Tadu894613
    Tadu894613 Member Posts: 4 New User
    More or less i'm trying to get this laptop to run iracing.  I'm low on RAM need min of 16GB of which I have 12.... So I figure might as well go with 32 (2X16GB)   I only have 19GB left of disk space.... So thinking of SSD instead of HDD....
  • brummyfan2
    brummyfan2 ACE Posts: 28,470 Trailblazer
    Please wait for someone familiar with games to reply.

    Acer Predator PT516-51s Performance Results - UserBenchmark

  • Hawkseye502
    Hawkseye502 Member Posts: 3 New User
    edited December 2020 Answer ✓
    You want a SSD 100% if performance is your only concern. They do cost more, but they more than make up for it. Most HDD's you can stuff in a laptop are only bringing 130MB/s. SDD's start in the 200mb/s range and bring as much as 900mb/s bandwidth. Whether your laptop will support that on the other hand depends. You may only be able to get say 600mb/s from your system, wasting 300mb/s bandwidth capability and money's worth.

    I'm not familiar with the specifics to determine if it'll handle 900mb/s, but interfaces are a good start. When it comes to interfaces, those high end speeds are achieved with NVMe, but SATA is still decent. Looking at online specs, you have both slots.

    Someone more familiar with the system will have to chime in on how much of the NVMe bandwidth you can take advantage of.

    Hope I was of some help.


  • Hawkseye502
    Hawkseye502 Member Posts: 3 New User
    edited December 2020 Answer ✓
    Hawkseye502 said:
    You want a SSD 100% if performance is your only concern. They do cost more, but they more than make up for it. Most HDD's you can stuff in a laptop are only bringing 130MB/s. SDD's start in the 200mb/s range and bring as much as 900mb/s bandwidth. Whether your laptop will support that on the other hand depends. You may only be able to get say 600mb/s from your system, wasting 300mb/s bandwidth capability and money's worth.

    I'm not familiar with the specifics to determine if it'll handle 900mb/s, but interfaces are a good start. When it comes to interfaces, those high end speeds are achieved with NVMe, but SATA is still decent. Looking at online specs, you have both slots.

    Someone more familiar with the system will have to chime in on how much of the NVMe bandwidth you can take advantage of.

    Hope I was of some help.


    Correction, current best NVMe SSD is 7,000 MB/s read bandwith.

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