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Guys, I finally upgraded my Laptop storage with the WD Black SN770 NVMe PCIe Gen4 M.2 1TB SSD 🕺 (as per a recommendation from the Editor of TechPowerUp and Tom's Hardware reviews). The Gen4 SSD works like a charm on my PCIE Gen3 board 😃 and will give some future proofing too if I buy a new...

@Lafong That’s great to hear. Thanks again 😊

@Lafong , Thank you for responding 🤝 My laptop shipped with just a 2.5 inch, 1 TB SATA HDD from Western Digital (Name: WDC WD10SPZX-21Z10T0). The M.2 slot is empty, I attached a couple of pictures below. Yes, all the SSDs I listed are NVMe. In the Acer community I had asked and got to know that...

Thank you @USAFRet and @SkyNetRising for the answers and explanations 👍🏻. Since my laptop is a 2017 model (BIOS updated to 20190301 release), so while buying a NVMe SSD should I focus on models which were released close to that year, e.g. 2019/2020/2021 ? Just to make sure the SSD works with...

Thank you for the steps @USAFRet . Since mine is a dual-boot (Win + Ubuntu) system, will those cloning software clone both Windows and Linux partitions? Is cloning the OEM partition (/dev/sda1 EFI System in my case) necessary?

Hi @USAFRet @Lafong @SkyNetRising , I read the article on cloning SSD/HDD using Clonezilla: https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/clone-your-ssd-or-hard-drive There I found recommendations on other tools too. I have an Acer Aspire A515-51G which is a 2017 model and it shipped with a WD 1 TB SATA...