Acer Nitro AN515-54 What SSD i might purchase for my Intel® CoreTM i5-9300H processor

Herongeo

My Sk Hynix SSD 256 GB, PCIe Gen3, 8 Gb/s up to 4 lanes, NVMe all of a sudden has failed and all my Data is on the drive. Not sure why it fail so soon. Not even 1.5 year since i began to using this laptop for casual activities and it failed already. The memory seemed cheap that it came with. 1 NAND chip it carries. I am so disappointed... Can the SSD be repaired. The designed of it seems simple.?

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StevenGen

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/678635/what-ssd-i-might-purchase-for-my-intel-coretm-i5-9300h-processor-8-mb-smart-cache-2-4-ghz

An M.2 drives doesn't go by what cpu you have but by what PCIe your laptop runs for its M.2 drive, its either a SATA-3 M.2, M.2 PCIe 3 x2, PCIe3 x4 or PCIe 4 x4 laptop model that you have? Is it an Aspire, Nitro, Swift, Spin etc etc, give us the model number.

If you have valuable data on the existing M.2 boot SSD and you need data recovered, you need to take it to an experienced technician that specializes in M.2 SSD data recovery and has all the parts to replace and recover your valuable data on the SK Hynix? If not, then replace this M.2 boot drive with a top-quality drive like from Western Digital from their PCIe 3x4 SN 570 model up to their top of the range PCIe 4 x4 SN850 Black M.2 models.

StevenGen

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1177280#Comment_1177280

Your AN515-54 Nitro laptop M.2 suitable drives specs are of a PCIe Gen.3x4 M.2 drive (don't put PCIe4 x4 as this laptop will never ever utilize their speed) and the hard drive capacity is only restricted/governed by the formatting system that your OS has and uses:

The windows OS rules are as follows:

1. MBR/Legacy format is restricted to and up to 2TB capacity,
2. GUID (GPT) UEFI windows OSs can utilize drives that are much higher than 2TB and up to 8 petabytes theoretically.

So, upgrading to 512GB is easily handled in both formatting types, the reason why Acer fitted the 256GB oem boot drive is only for and to reduce costs and really 256GB for a boot drive these days is very low and poor.

I speak from personal experience as I'm using an AN515-56 that has 16GB (2x *GB DDR4-3200MHz) dual channel ram and this laptop came with a 512GB oem boot drive and that just filled up really quickly, upgrade the boot drive to a fast 1TB PCIe 3 x4 with a top performing M.2 drive like the WD SN750 Black or the M.2 Samsung new 980 or the older 970 NVMe SSDs as these drives are the quickest and best for your laptop imo and that is what I'm using on my AN515-56 with the boot drive M.2 that has in M.2 slot #1 the WD SN750 Black and in slot #2 M.2 being used as a slave drive in GUID (GPT) format the old boot drive WD SN530, which is a much slower PCIe 3 x4 M.2. The idea is to improve your performance on laptops like these and not just put anything if you upgrade, don't know what oem 256GB M.2 drive Acer fitted to your AN515-54 but in my case the oem WD SN530 performance in comparison to the WD SN750 Black is twice as fast:

OEM Acer fitted AN515-56 boot drive the WD 512GB SN530 M.2 drive benchmark as a slave with 0% data on it.

New boot drive the 1TB WD SN750 Black M.2 drive benchmark as a boot drive with 17% data on it.

StevenGen

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/678635/what-ssd-i-might-purchase-for-my-intel-coretm-i5-9300h-processor-8-mb-smart-cache-2-4-ghz

An M.2 drives doesn't go by what cpu you have but by what PCIe your laptop runs for its M.2 drive, its either a SATA-3 M.2, M.2 PCIe 3 x2, PCIe3 x4 or PCIe 4 x4 laptop model that you have? Is it an Aspire, Nitro, Swift, Spin etc etc, give us the model number.

If you have valuable data on the existing M.2 boot SSD and you need data recovered, you need to take it to an experienced technician that specializes in M.2 SSD data recovery and has all the parts to replace and recover your valuable data on the SK Hynix? If not, then replace this M.2 boot drive with a top-quality drive like from Western Digital from their PCIe 3x4 SN 570 model up to their top of the range PCIe 4 x4 SN850 Black M.2 models.

Herongeo

It is Acer Nitro AN515-54. This model carries to PCIe ports, is there a limitation to the max number of SSD storage each slot carries? It came with 256GB which is now defective. Can I put 512GB in both slots or is it 256GB in both is the max this module can carries?

StevenGen

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1177280#Comment_1177280

Your AN515-54 Nitro laptop M.2 suitable drives specs are of a PCIe Gen.3x4 M.2 drive (don't put PCIe4 x4 as this laptop will never ever utilize their speed) and the hard drive capacity is only restricted/governed by the formatting system that your OS has and uses:

The windows OS rules are as follows:

1. MBR/Legacy format is restricted to and up to 2TB capacity,
2. GUID (GPT) UEFI windows OSs can utilize drives that are much higher than 2TB and up to 8 petabytes theoretically.

So, upgrading to 512GB is easily handled in both formatting types, the reason why Acer fitted the 256GB oem boot drive is only for and to reduce costs and really 256GB for a boot drive these days is very low and poor.

I speak from personal experience as I'm using an AN515-56 that has 16GB (2x *GB DDR4-3200MHz) dual channel ram and this laptop came with a 512GB oem boot drive and that just filled up really quickly, upgrade the boot drive to a fast 1TB PCIe 3 x4 with a top performing M.2 drive like the WD SN750 Black or the M.2 Samsung new 980 or the older 970 NVMe SSDs as these drives are the quickest and best for your laptop imo and that is what I'm using on my AN515-56 with the boot drive M.2 that has in M.2 slot #1 the WD SN750 Black and in slot #2 M.2 being used as a slave drive in GUID (GPT) format the old boot drive WD SN530, which is a much slower PCIe 3 x4 M.2. The idea is to improve your performance on laptops like these and not just put anything if you upgrade, don't know what oem 256GB M.2 drive Acer fitted to your AN515-54 but in my case the oem WD SN530 performance in comparison to the WD SN750 Black is twice as fast:

OEM Acer fitted AN515-56 boot drive the WD 512GB SN530 M.2 drive benchmark as a slave with 0% data on it.

New boot drive the 1TB WD SN750 Black M.2 drive benchmark as a boot drive with 17% data on it.