Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Acer Predator G9-791 Adding NVME

My Acer Predator G9-791 came with a Liteon 128 GB M2 SATA. I wanted to try an NVME and bought a cheap ADATA 256 GB SX6000NP.

I originally bought the NVME and a PCIe card for a desktop but the motherboard could not boot to it. Experience is a good teacher. A little research would have served me well.

I inserted the NVME into the original slot and the Liteon in the stacked slot above the NVME. It booted to the original Liteon without BIOS change and I cloned to the NVME. I selected the NVME in BIOS and booted to it. So far so good. But Windows assigned C: to the Liteon and H:(for some reason) to the NVME.

Stacking the drives made the ADATA run hot and throttle (I assume)


I pulled the liteon and Windows assigned C: to the ADATA. The drive ran much cooler and speed improved.


This was an improvement over the original Liteon. I would be interested to see what a Samsung would do.


Was it worth the trouble? It feels a little snappier. I suppose some function would benefit but I have not done much yet. I don't have the outrageous speeds of some NVME drives. It satisfied my curiosity of installing it, so that is something.


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