What's the max upgrade limit for Acer Aspire 7 RAM and SSD

So I planned on upgrading my Acer Aspire 7 AMD at some point because obviously single-channel 8GB RAM stick doesn't really work so well for AMD CPUs in general, and 250GB of storage really doesn't fit my style. Plus 8GB of RAM on a single-stick especially is a big bottleneck for the hardware.

I just wanted to know the upward limit of upgradeability for the RAM and SSD. I believe the limit for RAM is 32GB but what about storage, because 1TB would be nice but 2TB would be even nicer for my data hoarding and vinyl digitizing.

I just want to have more storage to fit the stuff I do and more RAM to overall speed things up and help games and stuff run a little better, and just want to know how much of each I can have max.

Laptop specs:

CPU: Ryzen 5 5625U

GPU: GeForce RTX 3050 (4GB VRAM)

RAM: 8GB of RAM clocked at 3200Mhz, single stick.

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Puraw

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/689916/whats-the-max-upgrade-limit-for-acer-aspire-7-ram-and-ssd

I am assuming you have a Aspire 7 A715-42G. Two RAM SODIMM slots, which support up to 2x16 GB (32GB) of DDR4, 2400MHz memory in dual-channel mode. Storage-wise, there is one M.2 PCIe x4 slot for up to 2TB M.2 (2280) Single-Sided SSD • PCIe NVMe Gen 4 • 6,600 MB/s Read, 5,000 MB/s Write (check this Crucial link):
https://www.crucial.com/compatible-upgrade-for/acer/aspire-a715-42g

StevenGen

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/689916/whats-the-max-upgrade-limit-for-acer-aspire-7-ram-and-ssd

You haven't listed the exact Aspire model number but by those specs it seems like its the Aspire A715-43G which has a max capacity ram of 32GB into its 2x ram slots at DDR4-3200Mhz CL22 type ram.

The below list is the Acer only part numbers of suitable and compatible ram of either 4GB/8GB and 16GB modules that you should use:

Be aware that this laptop only has a 1x M.2 SSD PCIe 3 x4 type interface slot (see caption below) and you can go as high as a 2TB PCIe 3x4 M.2 SSD capacity drive no problems, as capacities in Windows OS is determined by its bios type which is either an MBR/Legacy format that allows a max of a 2TB hard drive capacity or a bios of a UEFI GUID (GPT) format that allows hard drives above 2TB and theoretically up to 8 Petabytes. If you want to go higher than 2TB, then there are PCIe 3x4 4TB type M.2 SSD drives available (that start at USD $850 like the SABRENT 4TB Rocket NVMe PCIe 3x4) that are available if you want to go that route.

This is what Acer lists as some of the compatible PCIe 3x4 M.2 SSD drives for this laptop,

EngineerBot299

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1222046#Comment_1222046

Ya that is the laptop I'm talking about.

Unfortunate that the memory frequency dials back in dual-channel mode. But at the same time, at least it's still better in the end because AMD cpus love dual-channel, and also there's more bandwidth for heavier tasks. 2TB of m.2 storage ain't bad.

Puraw

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1222092#Comment_1222092

You can try 3200 MHz DDR4 modules but I believe it will still run maximum at 2667 MHz in Dual Channel Mode, make sure you get a RAM kit as AMD is finnicky with Dual Channel mode. Although the slot is PCIe Gen 3.0 (4x) it will support Gen 4 NVMe but that SSD will run at Gen 3 speed (slower).

EngineerBot299

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1222099#Comment_1222099

Thank you. I just upgraded. Even in dual-channel, it’s at least saying it’s clocked at 3200mhz. Got myself 32GB of RAM and 500GB of storage so it’s easy waters from here. Thanks for the help.

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