Hard Drive Upgrade for Swift SF315-51, trying to upgrade my hard drive.

rsthomas · December 2024

Hey Everyone

I am trying to upgrade my hard drive. Currently I have a PCIe NVM Express with the capacity of 256 GB ( See pic). When I opened the laptop I see the space for a SSD 2.0 .. Can I add this with another SATA cable ? if so where should I connect ? Research indicates various models and so far I am not able to pin down whether its possible or not. Help and guidance is much appreciated. Attached are some pics with details. Thanks!!

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billsey · December 2024

I personally would replace the existing NVMe drive with a new, bigger one. That drive is going to be around four times as fast as a 2.5" SATA drive. Get a big drive, 1TB or 2TB is likely where the price points are best on a per GB basis, and an external NVMe case. Drop the new drive in the case and use any of the free drive cloning software packages to clone the existing drive to the new one, then open up and swap the new drive in. It should then boot on the new drive and give you lots and lots of room. You can then put the old drive into the external case, wipe it off and use that as an offline backup.

brummyfan2 · December 2024

Hi,

Yes, you can get a 2.5" SATA SSD and a cable to use for storage, you don't have to buy a caddy if you can use a double sided sticker to secure the SSD to the main body, you need to buy the cable in the thread attached, you can buy it online and connects to the slot just below the WiFi card on the motherboard (marked with yellow rectangle in the picture).

Sf315-41: Adding second HDD

Ecip

Nov 7, 2018

Alright, so, I'm looking to add some additional storage to my SF315-41 as I use it for photo editing and dont want to fill the SSD to the max.
I've opened the back up, and it's quite obvious where I would place a laptop drive. But, it is obviously missing a bracket of some sort to install/mount the drive, and the cable to connect it to the motherboard.
Does anyone have a link where I could purchase such a bracket and cable? Would be much appreciated. I know there's a thread about this somewhere, but I could not find it.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/12023978241

billsey · December 2024

I personally would replace the existing NVMe drive with a new, bigger one. That drive is going to be around four times as fast as a 2.5" SATA drive. Get a big drive, 1TB or 2TB is likely where the price points are best on a per GB basis, and an external NVMe case. Drop the new drive in the case and use any of the free drive cloning software packages to clone the existing drive to the new one, then open up and swap the new drive in. It should then boot on the new drive and give you lots and lots of room. You can then put the old drive into the external case, wipe it off and use that as an offline backup.

StevenGen · December 2024

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/717386/hard-drive-upgrade-for-swift-sf315-51

Just some additional advice, the Swift SF315-52 storage specs as detailed by Acer below from its service guide, and its fastest drive is its M.2 SSD Gen 3 x4 lane type drive which the Samsung 970 EVO Plus M.2 SSD drive is the fastest and works very well and is very well supported by Samsung with its Magician software which also has a cloning section called "Data Migration" and a speed testing section and firmware updating section etc that you can use to clone the new 970 EVO Plus M.2 drive with, so use this drive as its an excellent drive as i can speak from personal experience with my 3 years old Nitro 5 laptop, as I've been using this drive since then and it works very speedily and is very reliable. Good luck and hope this helps you out further.