04-09-2019 01:17 PM - last edited on 03-06-2024 08:17 PM by ROGBot
04-23-2019 12:48 AM
bluesknight25 wrote:
I recently bought an Asus Zephyrus GX501GI. I decided to upgrade my SSD with an WD 1TB M2 SSD that I had from before. Unfortunately, the laptop refused to read the m2 drive every single time. I was starting to believe the ssd slot is damaged but then tried an older 128gb PCIe SSD that I had and it worked perfectly. As such I have come to the conclusion that the SSD slot on these laptops do not accept m2 ssd's and can only use NVMe/PCIe drives. This was a big disappointment as I have no intention of buying a new NVMe just for this laptop and I will be probably returning it as there is very noticeable coil whine on top of everything else.
My housemate's Dell XPS 15 which costs approximately half the money supports both nvme/pcie and m2 drives. Is this "feature" widespread in all of the zephyrus models? or is it just GX501GI?
05-13-2019 06:08 AM
05-13-2019 07:09 AM
bluesknight25 wrote:
I recently bought an Asus Zephyrus GX501GI. I decided to upgrade my SSD with an WD 1TB M2 SSD that I had from before. Unfortunately, the laptop refused to read the m2 drive every single time. I was starting to believe the ssd slot is damaged but then tried an older 128gb PCIe SSD that I had and it worked perfectly. As such I have come to the conclusion that the SSD slot on these laptops do not accept m2 ssd's and can only use NVMe/PCIe drives. This was a big disappointment as I have no intention of buying a new NVMe just for this laptop and I will be probably returning it as there is very noticeable coil whine on top of everything else.
My housemate's Dell XPS 15 which costs approximately half the money supports both nvme/pcie and m2 drives. Is this "feature" widespread in all of the zephyrus models? or is it just GX501GI?