Aspire A517-51p-327Z upgrade possibility with SSD PCIe m.2 NVME
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I want to upgrade the SSD disk to Acer Aspire pro A517-51P-327Z with WD BLUE SN570 1TB M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 NVMe . Has anyone done a similar upgrade and will it work?
The original disk that is in the laptop at the moment is SK Hynix HFS256G39TND-N210A
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Hi,
Download and install HWiNFO64 free program, run it, expand Bus, expand PCI Bus, highlight each PCI Express Root ports one by one and check if any of them has Maximum link width of 4 or 2 in the right pane, please read my post in this thread:
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No, unfortunately, it won't work as you don't have a Root Port with maximum link width of either 2 or 4.
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Yes, it's a good speed for the particular drive in your model, well done 🙂
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Hi,
Download and install HWiNFO64 free program, run it, expand Bus, expand PCI Bus, highlight each PCI Express Root ports one by one and check if any of them has Maximum link width of 4 or 2 in the right pane, please read my post in this thread:
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I think, there is no chance to upgrade to NVME - anyway here is HWinfo and Crystaldiskinfo.
What do you think?
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Yes, you are correct but anyway, could you please highlight the Root Port 6 and post the picture of the right pane.
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I can show you the difference between the one installed and the one I want to upgrade with:
And also HWinfo:
and thanks for helping me :-)
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No, unfortunately, it won't work as you don't have a Root Port with maximum link width of either 2 or 4.
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OK, thanks again for your help.
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Finally, I tried changing the disk drives anyway and to my surprise, the mSATA to NVMe disk swap was successful. I now have a 1TB NVMe WD Blue 570 drive in my laptop. The problem arose when I tried to transfer the contents of the first disk to WD Blue using disk imaging. After the backup-restore was performed, the computer with the new disk started to boot, but after about half a minute it reported a green screen of death. After numerous attempts, I gave up and installed clean windows 11. However, since the computer apparently supports only half the speed of the disk, I added the measured speeds. So even 1tb NVMe drives work without problems, but unfortunately only at half speed.
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Yes, it's a good speed for the particular drive in your model, well done 🙂
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