In fact, the FHD G501JW configurations I've seen come with a SATA 3.0 SSD (& 1 TB 5400 rpm HDD) instead of a PCIe SSD. (Unrelated, but the FHD configurations only have a 4-cell, 60 Wh battery as well :()
For anyone who needs the info, I can confirm that yes it is backwards compatible (using it in my machine now), you can install a SATA 3 M.2 SSD. To open the G501 though, you need a TS5 sized screw driver, which is not so easy to find.
animaSola wrote: For anyone who needs the info, I can confirm that yes it is backwards compatible (using it in my machine now), you can install a SATA 3 M.2 SSD. To open the G501 though, you need a TS5 sized screw driver, which is not so easy to find.
How do i open it up when i removed all the screws? I cant get it open. It's kind of stuck. Any tips?
But even after removing all the screws, still had a bit of a difficult time removing it for the first time so I used a pry tool and an old credit card.
You can use the SATA. Because your M.2 drive is a SATA protocol drive rather than NVMe. Using it disables two of your SATA ports and you happen to have found one of the two that it disabled. Moving your SATA SSD over one column should fix it.
I have a 250gb SSD disc that i bought for my old laptop. Can/should i replace the hybrid disc that's in my G501? I will never use all that 1 TB space, so i guess it would be better to change it go get a bigger SSD? Is it hard?
