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Asus GL552VW DH71 SSD question (need answer before Friday if poss)

Discussion in 'Asus UK' started by MightyBenihana, 26 Nov 2015.

  1. MightyBenihana

    MightyBenihana Do or do not, there is no try

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    I will be buying the above laptop this weekend and I want to put an M.2 SSD in it. My preference would be the 500GB Samsung EVO.

    I have read however that the laptop only supports a maximum of 256GB M.2 SSDs. Is this true, and if so why?

    Thanks.
     
  2. Guest-16

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    'EVO' is a 2.5" SATA drive, not M.2 PCIE. You want the "950 Pro M.2" or SM951.

    HM170 should support 512GB drives. Do not use a SATA drive in the M.2 slot - the VW is exclusively PCIE. It's the older JX is SATA M.2 (https://www.asus.com/Notebooks/GL552JX/ vs https://www.asus.com/Notebooks/GL552VW/)

    It states 256GB on the page because that's all ASUS offers. It's not a chipset maximum.
     
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    MightyBenihana Do or do not, there is no try

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    Wow I have never seen that before!

    In a word - no it won't work regardless of size, because it's SATA, not PCIE. The VX only has PCIE M.2 slot. You want the JX if you want to use SATA M.2.
     
  5. MightyBenihana

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    OK, I get it now. Thanks.
     

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