SSD Upgrading for Acer TravelMate P259-MG

Hi,

I don't know much about computer technical stuffs…I just want to ask experts here in this community/forum on which best compatible SSD brand I should buy in order to upgrade my old and slow Acer TravelMate P259-MG laptop. I mostly use my laptop for work and utilizes the use of office suites, video conferencing, and work-related internet surfing for my research. Below are the other specs of my laptop:

Operating System: Win 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU: Intel core 17-7500U-cpu @ 2.70Ghz
RAM: 8 GB DDR4 @ 1063MHz
Storage; 931 GN Toshiba MQ01ABD100 (SATA)
Motherboard: Acer Lyra_SL (U3E1)

Hope to hear from the experts good suggestions. Thanks!

[Edited the thread to add model number to the title]

Accepted answers

brummyfan2

Hi,

You have a 2.5" Hard drive in your laptop. you can use a M.e NVMe SSD in your laptop, it will slightly improve the speed and quality if you install a M.2 NVMe SSD, you can use any Gen 3 M.2 NVM2 SSD, what I would suggest is to find a reasonable size M.2 SSD, install it in the slot, migrate everything from your HDD to the new M.2 SSD, then boot with the the new M.2 SSD, the laptop will be refreshed and perform better than with a normal spinner HDD.

There are many free software available, you familiarise with one and migrate the HDD to the new M.2 SSD including OS, it's not too hard, if you are in doubt, post the question and many fellow members will help you, I will give you an example to get used to the migration process.

buy a Samsung 1TB Gen 3 M.2 SSD, then familiarise the method explained here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQdGKlLW43o

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-MZ-V7S1T0BW-Solid-State-Drive/dp/B07MBQPQ62

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brummyfan2

Hi,

You have a 2.5" Hard drive in your laptop. you can use a M.e NVMe SSD in your laptop, it will slightly improve the speed and quality if you install a M.2 NVMe SSD, you can use any Gen 3 M.2 NVM2 SSD, what I would suggest is to find a reasonable size M.2 SSD, install it in the slot, migrate everything from your HDD to the new M.2 SSD, then boot with the the new M.2 SSD, the laptop will be refreshed and perform better than with a normal spinner HDD.

There are many free software available, you familiarise with one and migrate the HDD to the new M.2 SSD including OS, it's not too hard, if you are in doubt, post the question and many fellow members will help you, I will give you an example to get used to the migration process.

buy a Samsung 1TB Gen 3 M.2 SSD, then familiarise the method explained here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQdGKlLW43o

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-MZ-V7S1T0BW-Solid-State-Drive/dp/B07MBQPQ62

Multo

Isn't it that the PCIe slot for this model is Gen 1? Would it be a waste if you buy the Gen 3?

Sharanji

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1334292#Comment_1334292

The specs say the M. 2 slot is PCIe x1 though, so buying a PCIe Gen 3 NVMe SSD wouldn't be any faster than a SATA drive. You'll still benefit from significantly faster speeds than SATA, even though you won't reach the full potential of a Gen 3 SSD.

Diya1811

@Multo

Yes, the PCIe slot in the Acer TravelMate P259-MG is indeed PCIe Gen 1. While you can use a Gen 3 SSD in this slot, it will operate at the speed of Gen 1 due to backward compatibility. This means you won't fully utilize the higher speeds of a Gen 3 SSD, so it might not be cost-effective to invest in one. Instead, opting for a SATA III SSD or a Gen 1-compatible SSD would be a more practical choice for this model.

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billsey

Specs state the M.2 slot is SATA, not NVMe:

The block diagram does show a single PCIe signal to that slot, which is used for the SATA connection. The PCIe version is total different than the number of channels. The Sky Lake chipset (6th gen) incorporates PCIe gen 3.0. So that slot has PCIe gen 3.0 x1, which is designed around a SATA interface.