Does the ASUS G501JW FHD laptop support NVMe drives?

[WangGang]

Title says all.

 

[Petrossa]

It should have come with one installed, so, yes.

 

[WangGang]

It should have come with one installed, so, yes.

strange. Mine doesn't have one, just a 1tb hard drive.

 

[Petrossa]

I would say that is then dependent on the target market.
For example, here in South Africa you pay lots of money for what is a mid range device when it comes with SSD. Here that is still an "optional feature" instead of a "standard feature".
That system does have the support though, so you could install one.

 

[samer.forums]

That M2 is AHCI and not NVME. and the SSD M2 that comes with it is AHCI as well .

Intel HM87 express chipset does not support NVME M2 SSD , only AHCI.

If you put NVME SSD in that M2 it will not boot.