Upgrading SSD and RAM for Acer Swift 3 (sf314-15-52v8)

p341127

Hello I'm planning to upgrade my default 256gb ssd to a 1tb one. I know that most models support up to 512gb drives, but would putting 1tb still work? And does the second ssd slot support NVMe or is it SATA 3.0?

For RAM I want to upgrade from the current 8gb (4gb x 2) setup, but are both memories soldered? I know that some swift 3 models have upgradable RAM, but I think my model have soldered RAM.

StevenGen

p341127 said:

Hello I'm planning to upgrade my default 256gb ssd to a 1tb one. I know that most models support up to 512gb drives, but would putting 1tb still work? And does the second ssd slot support NVMe or is it SATA 3.0?

For RAM I want to upgrade from the current 8gb (4gb x 2) setup, but are both memories soldered? I know that some swift 3 models have upgradable RAM, but I think my model have soldered RAM.

Look p341127 there is NO specific stated max capacity for a HDD in laptops by manufacturers, they put in the most cost effective drives and sizes and for their more expensive rigs they use the higher quality drives but you have to pay for it. Most manufacturers these days use an M.2 SSD's as a boot (which they can get away with cheaper and smaller capacities like 256GB which are useless in capapcity) but these M.2 drives can be purchased (depends on your budget?) up to 2TB for the reasonable priced drives but and up to the more expensive M.2 types that come up to 4TB, which you don’t need as a boot drive as a boot drive is more than adequate with a 512GB or up to 1TB max! Do the Crucial System Scan as that will show you all the suitable and especially max ram memory and it also gives you their SSD drives options that your laptop can have and support.

Note: with mechanical HDD's and SSD's capacities in either 3.5", 2,5" or M.2 drives it depends on the data formatting of the drives? The simple Windows support for hard disks rules are as follows, MBR format can accommodate up to 2.2TB max data and the GUID/GPT format can accommodate above 2.2TB of data as there is no need to talk about disk or partition capacity limit of GPT since there will be no hard disk exceeding the limit in a very long time. Also there are M.2 4TB drives but they are expensive like the “Samsung PM983 Series 3.84 TB SSD” or the “Sabrent Rocket 4TB M.2 2280” as there is no such thing as a data drive capacity with either a laptop or a desktop. Btw, there are many articles on HDD/SSD capacities and formatting and capacities so read up on it. 

Just as an example and with my personal Nitro 5 laptop, I use an NVMe PCIe 4 x4 1TB Samsung 980 Pro M.2 boot drive with a secondary and optional 2.5” “Samsung’s 860 QVO 4TB SSD” as a slave drive and both work 100% and they are formatted in GUID/GPT format without any problems as I need allot of data storage for personal and work use. Good luck and hope this helps you out and explains it to you.

StevenGen

p341127 said:

Hello I'm planning to upgrade my default 256gb ssd to a 1tb one. I know that most models support up to 512gb drives, but would putting 1tb still work? And does the second ssd slot support NVMe or is it SATA 3.0?

For RAM I want to upgrade from the current 8gb (4gb x 2) setup, but are both memories soldered? I know that some swift 3 models have upgradable RAM, but I think my model have soldered RAM.

Look p341127 there is NO specific stated max capacity for a HDD in laptops by manufacturers, they put in the most cost effective drives and sizes and for their more expensive rigs they use the higher quality drives but you have to pay for it. Most manufacturers these days use an M.2 SSD's as a boot (which they can get away with cheaper and smaller capacities like 256GB which are useless in capapcity) but these M.2 drives can be purchased (depends on your budget?) up to 2TB for the reasonable priced drives but and up to the more expensive M.2 types that come up to 4TB, which you don’t need as a boot drive as a boot drive is more than adequate with a 512GB or up to 1TB max! Do the Crucial System Scan as that will show you all the suitable and especially max ram memory and it also gives you their SSD drives options that your laptop can have and support.

Note: with mechanical HDD's and SSD's capacities in either 3.5", 2,5" or M.2 drives it depends on the data formatting of the drives? The simple Windows support for hard disks rules are as follows, MBR format can accommodate up to 2.2TB max data and the GUID/GPT format can accommodate above 2.2TB of data as there is no need to talk about disk or partition capacity limit of GPT since there will be no hard disk exceeding the limit in a very long time. Also there are M.2 4TB drives but they are expensive like the “Samsung PM983 Series 3.84 TB SSD” or the “Sabrent Rocket 4TB M.2 2280” as there is no such thing as a data drive capacity with either a laptop or a desktop. Btw, there are many articles on HDD/SSD capacities and formatting and capacities so read up on it. 

Just as an example and with my personal Nitro 5 laptop, I use an NVMe PCIe 4 x4 1TB Samsung 980 Pro M.2 boot drive with a secondary and optional 2.5” “Samsung’s 860 QVO 4TB SSD” as a slave drive and both work 100% and they are formatted in GUID/GPT format without any problems as I need allot of data storage for personal and work use. Good luck and hope this helps you out and explains it to you.