Acer Aspire E 15 E5-575-72L3 m.2 nvme support

Hi,
i am from India and thinking to upgrade memory on my Acer laptop "Acer Aspire E 15 E5-575-72L3".
the main use of laptop is backend+UI development, working on documents(extensively on word, excel and ppt's. usually more than 10 docs at a time) and casual browsing and watching movie. Many a times the browser or the document becomes irresponsive and take time to respond again.

i'm thinking to use either of the below,

WD Blue SN550 1 TB Desktop, Laptop Internal Solid State Drive (WDS100T2B0C) online link which i found
Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SATA 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)(MZ-76E1T0) Online link which i found

Please suggest which one should i go for, im very new to this and finding it difficult to understand which type of memory is suitable for my laptop. what i read and understood is "

WD Blue SN550 1 TB" might be better than "Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SATA 2.5", please correct me if i'm wrong.

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Accepted answers

bharath_gowda

@brummyfan2 i am thinking to install 1TB WD blue SN550 drive in the M.2 slot and use the HDD as external drive for the docs and content which are rarely used.
@Leostat and @brummyfan2 thanks for the quick answers, i will go ahead and order NVME M.2 drive and follow the youtube video which was mentioned in the earlier post.

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Leostat

Looking at this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJFeq_QvybU

A NVME drive should be supported, the NVME one would be faster than the Sata one

Do things freeze while loading, or when they are allready open? If its when allready open you could be just be using all your ram, how much do you have in the laptop?

brummyfan2

Hi,
Yes, both are compatible, you can use 1TB WD blue SN550 drive in the M.2 slot, clone your current HDD to it and use it as a boot drive, use your current HDD for storage, you have to decide whether you want to install 1TB NVMe drive or replace the HDD with a 2.5" SSD drive.

bharath_gowda

@Leostat thanks for the link, i think i will go ahead with the

WD Blue SN550 1 TB Desktop, Laptop Internal Solid State Drive (WDS100T2B0C) online link which i found

Regarding current performance, things freeze while loading or opening, i currently have 8GB ram, while upgrading the memory, should i also upgrade the ram as well

Leostat

If its freezing when opening its most likley just the drive speed which is holding you up

bharath_gowda

@brummyfan2 i am thinking to install 1TB WD blue SN550 drive in the M.2 slot and use the HDD as external drive for the docs and content which are rarely used.
@Leostat and @brummyfan2 thanks for the quick answers, i will go ahead and order NVME M.2 drive and follow the youtube video which was mentioned in the earlier post.