Hello,
I found this very helpful link to suggested official upgrade modules for the Acer Nitro 5 AN515-53-52FA:
This model originally comes with an HHD:
I have 2 friends who have this model, each has an identical laptop (they are married). BOTH friend's laptops have become impossibly slow, like it literally takes 10-20 minutes to load a program such as a game, and hours to update. I ran diagnostics and find nothing obviously wrong, not running our ram when browsing, etc. So I suspect it is the HHD drives - either the drives themselves are corrupt, or the SATA cables have gone bad, or they are just too slow for modern programs. It seems very suspicious that BOTH of their laptops have become impossibly slow; seems like a bad hardware line to me. I am assuming the M.2 will fix this (at least I can try, put one in, reinstall Win10 to M.2 as primary boot drive, look for slow performance).
My question: the link above suggests one very specific PCIe model number for an Intel M.2 drive as being compatible. But... it's only that specific drive? Really? No other M.2 drives are compatible?
Or are all 1x 2280 PCIe NVMe drives compatible???
Thanks!
[Edited the thread to add issue detail]