ACER Predator Orion 3000 PO3-630 - PCIe SSD Capacity

VincentA

Could somebody please tell me what the capacity of NVME PCIe SSD can be installed on the ACER Predator Orion 3000 PO3-630.

There appears to be 2 m.2(2280) m.key slots but another post stated that one of those slots is used for wi-fi only. If that is so how do I add another m.2 PCIe SSD card.

GotBanned

EDIT: While writing I see that someone posted. Looks like 630 mobo is different. Please ignore most of what I wrote. ^^

Hi there again!


Open the side panel and take a look at your motherboard. Does it look anything like this? The following pic is PO3-620 mobo. As you can see, it has only one PCIe slot and that is for the GPU. Does yours have two?



In the picture you can see M.2 nvme drive (M Key, 2280 format) between the HSF and empty GPU PCIe slot. Right from them with a tiny white and black cables is a 30mm long WiFi/BT card. And as mentioned earlier, I'm not sure it'll support storage drives. I'm not even sure it is M Key. Info about key and socket differences.

If your board has two PCIe slots, and now I'm starting to doubt that is does, you could buy an PCIe M.2 adapted for it and install M.2 nvme SSD on it.

Of course you can also buy bigger and faster M.2 NVME drive like Samsung 980 Pro, but then you would have to either:

• reinstall everything, or
• clone your existing using Samsung's brilliant Data Migration tool, which can be found from HERE.

Furthermore, to fully utilize PCIe 4.0 speeds, make sure your CPU and motherboard support it. Otherwise you are limited to PCIe 3.0 speeds. (No need to shell money for the latest and greatest if you can't run it at full speed.)

Here's what I'd recommend you to do. Why don't you get something like 2,5" Samsung SATA SSD? They are cheaper but still plenty fast. Their write speeds are limited to around 560MB/s, but to tell you the truth, you will hardly notice it. Yes, boot and game level loading times may be few seconds better, but that's all.

Oh, and as far as I know there is no limitation to the storage drive size.

brummyfan2

Hi,
You have 2 slots for M.2 NVMe SSD, you can install up to 1TB in each slot.
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/44635146

GotBanned

EDIT: While writing I see that someone posted. Looks like 630 mobo is different. Please ignore most of what I wrote. ^^

Hi there again!


Open the side panel and take a look at your motherboard. Does it look anything like this? The following pic is PO3-620 mobo. As you can see, it has only one PCIe slot and that is for the GPU. Does yours have two?



In the picture you can see M.2 nvme drive (M Key, 2280 format) between the HSF and empty GPU PCIe slot. Right from them with a tiny white and black cables is a 30mm long WiFi/BT card. And as mentioned earlier, I'm not sure it'll support storage drives. I'm not even sure it is M Key. Info about key and socket differences.

If your board has two PCIe slots, and now I'm starting to doubt that is does, you could buy an PCIe M.2 adapted for it and install M.2 nvme SSD on it.

Of course you can also buy bigger and faster M.2 NVME drive like Samsung 980 Pro, but then you would have to either:

• reinstall everything, or
• clone your existing using Samsung's brilliant Data Migration tool, which can be found from HERE.

Furthermore, to fully utilize PCIe 4.0 speeds, make sure your CPU and motherboard support it. Otherwise you are limited to PCIe 3.0 speeds. (No need to shell money for the latest and greatest if you can't run it at full speed.)

Here's what I'd recommend you to do. Why don't you get something like 2,5" Samsung SATA SSD? They are cheaper but still plenty fast. Their write speeds are limited to around 560MB/s, but to tell you the truth, you will hardly notice it. Yes, boot and game level loading times may be few seconds better, but that's all.

Oh, and as far as I know there is no limitation to the storage drive size.

billsey

There isn't a size limit to what drives fit into the SSD slots. The 1TB quoted is only the largest drive that Acer ships with. You can purchase SSDs with 1TB, 2TB or even 8TB and they will work fine.