Does My laptop Acer Nitro AN515-52 have support of SSD Samsung 970 Evo series 500GB M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4

Viacheslav_222
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edited November 2023 in 2020 Archives
Hi

Does my laptop Acer Nitro AN515-52 have support of SSD Samsung 970 Evo series 500GB M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4. I know that my laptop has PCIe 3.0 x1 but is this compatible with SSDs for PCIe 3.0 x4? And one additional question: WIll bios on my laptop recognize this SSD with SSD PCIe 3.0 x4? 

Thanks for answers!

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  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 34,222 Trailblazer
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    Your Nitro AN515-52 supports NVMe x4, as is required for any that support Optane cards. So you should be good to go with that one. :)
    I am assuming you currently have a HDD instead of SSD... You will want to clone the HDD to the new SSD and then boot once with just the SSD installed. That adds the EFI partition from the SSD into the boot order so the first boot with both SSD and HDD will use the SSD as first choice. Once you are booted from the SSD with both drives installed you can wipe the partitions on the HDD and create a new one for your data.
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  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 34,222 Trailblazer
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    Your Nitro AN515-52 supports NVMe x4, as is required for any that support Optane cards. So you should be good to go with that one. :)
    I am assuming you currently have a HDD instead of SSD... You will want to clone the HDD to the new SSD and then boot once with just the SSD installed. That adds the EFI partition from the SSD into the boot order so the first boot with both SSD and HDD will use the SSD as first choice. Once you are booted from the SSD with both drives installed you can wipe the partitions on the HDD and create a new one for your data.
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  • Viacheslav_222
    Viacheslav_222 Member Posts: 6

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    @billsey Thanks for your answer! I already have SSD installed but with SATA 3 specification and it  has not enough speed of data transfering and it has only 128GB of space. So I want to replace this on new one that will be more powerful and have a more space. That's the reason why I decided to set up new SSD. 
  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 34,222 Trailblazer
    OK, you are in about the best setup for it then. I'd invest in one of the USB M.2 adapters, making sure it supports both SATA and NVMe modes. Put the new drive in the adapter, plug it into the system and clone the internal SSD to it. If appropriate use a partition utility to expand the system partition but leave the EFI and recovery partitions alone. Once it's all setup take the old drive out and put the new drive in. You should be able to boot without any other changes, but it's safest to go into the BIOS and set defaults (F9) then save and exit (F10). You can then put the old drive in the adapter and wipe all partitions from it. Finally create a new full sized partition on it and you have an external USB drive to use anywhere...
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  • Viacheslav_222
    Viacheslav_222 Member Posts: 6

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    @billsey Okey, it's a good idea! Thanks!
  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 34,222 Trailblazer
    Let us know how it progresses!
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