Thanks!
I did not find much on the support pages either. I've read various places that a PCIe x4 Gen 3 is much faster than sata. Should I aim to find one of those?
And you think that a B&M key SSD will work fine even though the port on the board is a "B" key?
Sure, thanks!
Acer V17 Nitro Black (Aspire VN7-791G-76Z8)
According to Acer (in an amazon product page answer), this laptop "supports both SATA3 or PCIe x4 Gen 3 SSDs" but "not NVMe".
Product page (pretty sparse): https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/support-product/5615
Where I found the...
That is a great low cost solution, but my SSD slot is an "M" key, those appear to be "B & M" key. Will they be compatible?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.2#/media/File:M2_Edge_Connector_Keying.svg
...the bios did not recognize that I had an M.2 drive installed.
The acer community forum reminded me that this model does not support NVMe drives.
The newegg page did not state that it is an NVMe drive, but looking on the amazon page for the drive, sure enough it is.
Newegg was kind enough...
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