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KokoAkos

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Dec 16, 2020
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Hey,

I have Asus FX503VD Laptop and I have 2,5" HDD. Now, I want to buy an SSD next to HDD. First of all, I picked Samsung 860 EVO 500GB M.2 SATA3 MZ-N6E500BW, but after I saw Samsung 970 EVO PLUS 500GB MZ-V7S500BW and I changed my mind. But I looked in to compatibility and I have some confusion.
860 EVO has M.2 SATA3 connector, 970 EVO PLUS has NVMe, M.2 (PCI-E) connector.

In some forum, I read it only supports SATA, but in other 970 EVO PLUS okay with Asus FX503VD. So that's the question, 970 EVO PLUS compatible with this laptop (based on the picture)? Anyway compatible with both of them or it's just one of them? There is 2 picture about 2 SSD, and 1 with my laptop SSD slot. (In my opinion, it is good with 970 EVO PLUS, NVMe (PCI-E) SSD, but i dont know its okay both of them)

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