TC1660 with hard drive inadequate for Windows 11

ScottyBFG

I bought one of these with a 2tb hard drive last February and it never worked satisfactorily. I had a hard year with hip operations and didn't really get to the bottom of it. In frustration I fitted a Sata SSD as Drive C: and doubled the memory while at it. The difference is almost immeasurable (around 1min boot up etc, v 10min).

Less a question than information for others having similar problems.

StevenGen

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/698524/tc1660-with-hard-drive-inadequate-for-windows-11

The Aspire TC-1600 desktop has a 1x PCIe3x4 slot that and if you install a 1TB or 2TB Samsung 970 EVO NVMe M.2 SSD and use it as the boot drive, it will perform 5 times quicker in read/write speeds of 3400MB/s while to a SATA-3 SSD drive that only runs max at read/write of 700 MB/s. Buy a PCIe3x4 M.2 SSD and install that as you will find that it will run much quicker.

Aspire TC-1600 mainboard

PCIe3x4 M.2 SSD Acer lists for the Aspire TC-1600 desktop

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ScottyBFG

Thanks StevenGen. My motherboard had an m.2 slot but it was Sata only unfortunately. Your solution is the preferable one, but just the SSD does the job.

billsey

Yes, they target those machines at the lower end of the market, and that means they have SKUs with HDDs instead of SSDs. Dropping a SSD in makes a huge difference. The M.2 slot is not SATA only, it supports NVMe x4 using PCIe 3.0, so a drive there will be somewhere near four times the transfer speed of a SATA SSD.