Acer V17 Nitro can I upgrade to SSD?

[gfaiii]

EDIT:
Hi all,

As Popatim pointed out the laptop can in fact handle an additional SSD. When I go to system devices the only thing I can find related to storage is something that starts out with WD-then a bunch of numbers which I believe is just my HDD.

But after looking through the device manager and the ports that the computer have I see that I have a bunch of things in relation to PCI express.

>Device Manager
>System Devices
>PCI Express Root Complex
>PCI Express Root Port
>PCI Express Root Port
>PCI Express Root Port
>PCI standard host CPU bridge
>PCI standard ISA bridge

After reading into the definitions of these ports it leads me to believe that I could actually plug in a PCI express SSD to this computer contrary to what a lot of other forum posts have been saying about the V17 nitro black edition.

Can anyone confirm this? Would really appreciate it I want to go ahead and make a purchase!

thanks


Hi all,

Experiencing pretty bad load times in some of my larger engineering applications like SolidWorks/MATLAB and also in videos games as small as Path of Exile (i know transfer rate plays a big roll not just the size of the original file) but I was mainly wondering if a black edition Acer V17 Nitro can upgrade to SSD?

I think it has an M.2 slot in it but I just want to make sure with people that have more experience than me. Anyone that could give their input?

Also if I do in fact have an M.2 slot open would I be able to put this in there?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147398

I think that it may only accept SATA m.2 drives and not PCI expresses. But the transfer rate of 6 gb/s (obvi wouldn't get that speed exactly) would help the load times of these applications most likely correct? I know you can just stick a 16 gig in the side of USB 3.0 and make it a quick access drive but I'm really looking to actually upgrade here. \

Thank you!



George

 

[popatim]

Yes it can, some even came with ssd's. Whats your full V17 model# ?

 

[gfaiii]

Hi popatim,

Thanks for the timely response. My model is the Aspire VN7-791 and when I look into the drives I think I only have a HDD. Thank you very much for answering my question though I really appreciate it, I think I will go with this model of SSD for right now unless anyone else has a better idea!

thanks again

 

[gfaiii]

Yes it can, some even came with ssd's. Whats your full V17 model# ?

I don't have one already I checked for that thank you though. But based off those ports I listed in my edited post does that mean it would accept a PCI express SSD in there as well??

thanks