I have Acer Swift 3 ryzen 5 2500u laptop (Model no: SF315-41-R9S1)

Abijith

does this model has m.2 slot or nvme slot.

JackE

The 2500u mainboard should have an m.2 socket which supports both m.2 NVME SSD cards and m.2 SATA3  SSD cards. However, the mainboard m.2 SSD buss may limit any m.2 NVME card to SATA3 speeds or slightly faster. So don't pay extra for an NVME card. The Western Digital blue series NVME card up to 2TB size should work fine in this laptop and is usually very reasonably priced.

billsey

According to the Block Diagram for the SF315-41 models, the PCIe feeding the M.2 SSD bus is x4, so a NVMe drive should be significantly faster than a SATA.

JackE

But not too long ago @billsey also said  >>>It looks like all SSD models whipped with M.2 SATA3 drives, so the specs may be in error when they say PCIe x4 is supported. The system block diagram does show PCIe x4, but with a caveat that support is a motherboard BOM option, so not all motherboard were built with that support installed. Since they don't specify which SKUs have which motherboards we have no way to tell id a specific one supports the faster drives. Did you, by any chance, try an NVMe x2 drive?>>>

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/974908/#Comment_974908

Still say the WesternDigital blue series NVME is the safest bet.

billsey

I'm working on the assumption the later shipping models have the NVMe support enabled... But I could easily be wrong.