Which is compatible m.2 SSD in Aspire R5-571T

Is there any expert who can solve my problem?
I have Aspire R5-571T with m.2 slot, I want to use SSD on this laptop. Right now I am using a built-in hard drive (Western Digital 1TB 5400RPM 2.5" Hard Drive). M.2 slot is empty that's why I want to use SSD and HDD at the same time for large storage and fast system boot up. But I don't know which SSD will be compatible with this. I hear from somewhere that Crucial P2 SSD is compatible but not sure, I am so confused please someone help who has knowledge about this. Waiting for someone's valuable reply.
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Model Name: R5-571T
Part Number: NX.GCCAA.002
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billsey

Acer says: M.2 2242/2260/2280 SATA Gen3x2 SSD in the specs, which points toward it being a SATA interface, not NVMe. The gen 3 x2 leads me to belive there's a chance a NVMe x2 drive might work, but it wouldn't be much faster than a SATA drive, so to be safe stick with a M.2 SATA. Ignore any size restrictions you might see, those are just the sizes they shipped with or tested. The 2280 form factor is the most popular, and I'm partial to the band name drives, they tend to have fewer child failure than the generics.

Callistemon

You already have the best type of storage! SSDs overheat to extremely high temperatures and then throttle. Overheating can cause SSDs to fail in under 2 years. HDDs have had power loss protection for 23 years, by using spindle momentum to swing the actuator arm off the precious platter when the power is cut. Unlike HDDs, SSDs erase and rewrite entire blocks when anything is changed, and if the power is interrupted during a write operation, then those blocks, or even the entire SSD, become permanently corrupted. Spindles are superior, and I will likely be posting a more comprehensive comparison to the forum soon.

Check this out: https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1040067

Press the power button instead of number lock, and within seconds, files on your SSD are destroyed. Meanwhile, the HDD continues to spin away after the laptop is turned back on. Clear winner here.

https://photographylife.com/m-2-nvme-drive-overheating-failure

"If you decide to use any SSD drives in your computer build (and you should, since they are extremely fast), no matter what form factor, you should plan for a very thorough and working backup solution."

Translation: If you decide to install an SSD drive in your laptop, you should plan for a very thorough and working backup solution. If your computer freezes up and you need to power it down improperly, you could lose everything stored on the SSD.

NMan2929

billsey!
please tell me in a simple way and make it easy for me to understand that which SSD should I use on this laptop?

StevenGen

NMan2929 said:

billsey!
please tell me in a simple way and make it easy for me to understand that which SSD should I use on this laptop?

Firstly and remember, In your Aspire R5-571T you can either use a 2.5 inch SSD boot drive (to replace the spinner HDD) or an M.2 B&M end key type boot drive of the SATA-3 6GB/sec specs only, both perform the same as there is no speed advantage/difference between them.

Below is the list of the Acer recommended M.2 drives for your Aspire R5-571T, keep to these types of drive's in this list only. Note: capacities of these drives are only restricted by either the MBR formatting rules for Windows OS's which is a max of 2TB or the GUID Partition Table (GPT) formatting which is above 2TB capacities. These types of M.2 drives have been tested by Acer and they will perform the best in your Aspire R5-571T. Btw and this is only my opinion, I recommend the Samsung M.2 or 2.5" EVO SSD drives as they are the best performing and quality drives, I've had many years of hassel free experience in using Samsung SSD drives of both 2.5" SSD and M.2 drives and they are very reliable, speedy and of superior quality and they have the best software like the "Data Migration" for cloning and the Samsung magician for tuning of their SSD drives to any of the others that I've used. Also, make sure that your Win-10 is up to date and that all your Intel GPU and Intel drivers are up to date (install the Intel® Driver & Support Assistant to achieve that) and that you are running the last BIOS version also and if you upgrade to an SSD drive activate the TRIM command for your SSD drive so that it works to its peak performance, as all this will make your Aspire R5-571T perform to its peak performance.

Btw, this is the SAMSUNG - MZNLN512HCJH-000H1 - its the Samsung PM871 Series 512GB TLC SATA 6GB/s Mainstream Endurance (AES 256-bit) M.2 2280 Solid State Drive (SSD)which is listed below and its a B&M end key type SATA-3 6GB/sec M.2 2280 drive.

M.2 SSD drives for the Aspire R5-571T

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Kno63

Callistemon said:

You already have the best type of storage! SSDs overheat to extremely high temperatures and then throttle. Overheating can cause SSDs to fail in under 2 years. HDDs have had power loss protection for 23 years, by using spindle momentum to swing the actuator arm off the precious platter when the power is cut. Unlike HDDs, SSDs erase and rewrite entire blocks when anything is changed, and if the power is interrupted during a write operation, then those blocks, or even the entire SSD, become permanently corrupted. Spindles are superior, and I will likely be posting a more comprehensive comparison to the forum soon.

Check this out: https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1040067

Press the power button instead of number lock, and within seconds, files on your SSD are destroyed. Meanwhile, the HDD continues to spin away after the laptop is turned back on. Clear winner here.

https://photographylife.com/m-2-nvme-drive-overheating-failure

"If you decide to use any SSD drives in your computer build (and you should, since they are extremely fast), no matter what form factor, you should plan for a very thorough and working backup solution."

Translation: If you decide to install an SSD drive in your laptop, you should plan for a very thorough and working backup solution. If your computer freezes up and you need to power it down improperly, you could lose everything stored on the SSD.

Sorry, but for those who are reading along: I do not recommend taking this post seriously. I won't discuss that either.

Just my two cents! :-)

JackE

Any m.2 SATA3 card from Kingston, Crucial, Samsung, Adata, WesternDigital, Toshiba, etc should work fine. Shop by price. I like WesternDigitalBlue m.2 SATA3 cards up to 1TB because they're reliable and price is good..

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billsey

Yeah, take Callistemon's advice with a healthy grain of salt. He obviously had a bad SSD at some point and believe that makes all SSDs bad.

JackE

NO!!! I think WesternDigitalBlue SATA will work with 90% certainty. I think Crucial NVME will work with 50% certainty. Nothing is 100% certainty!!!!.

Commodore_1995#

This user was able to successfully install an ssd nvme, see: https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/606381/acer-r15-r5-571tg-78g8-pcie-nvme-ssd-upgrade-successful

robbyukayy

Callistemon said:

You already have the best type of storage! SSDs overheat to extremely high temperatures and then throttle. Overheating can cause SSDs to fail in under 2 years. HDDs have had power loss protection for 23 years, by using spindle momentum to swing the actuator arm off the precious platter when the power is cut. Unlike HDDs, SSDs erase and rewrite entire blocks when anything is changed, and if the power is interrupted during a write operation, then those blocks, or even the entire SSD, become permanently corrupted. Spindles are superior, and I will likely be posting a more comprehensive comparison to the forum soon.

Check this out: https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1040067

Press the power button instead of number lock, and within seconds, files on your SSD are destroyed. Meanwhile, the HDD continues to spin away after the laptop is turned back on. Clear winner here.

https://photographylife.com/m-2-nvme-drive-overheating-failure

"If you decide to use any SSD drives in your computer build (and you should, since they are extremely fast), no matter what form factor, you should plan for a very thorough and working backup solution."

Translation: If you decide to install an SSD drive in your laptop, you should plan for a very thorough and working backup solution. If your computer freezes up and you need to power it down improperly, you could lose everything stored on the SSD.

But, I have been using a Seagate 1TB SSD in my laptop and it has never suffered from data loss. The reason I upgraded to a SSD is because my Hard Drive had mass data loss. (my entire windows 10 install wiped itself.)

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