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Question

SSD upgrade for Aspire S5-391

Apr 1, 2015 9:44PM PDT

Dear all:
I have some questions about hardwares of Aspire S5-391, please help me:

1. Can I replace the original SSD of S5-391(working under RAID0) with ordinary msata SSD? mine is 128gb, it is not enought for me, and I donot care about RAID workmode.

2. What the maximum capacity of SSD that the S5-391 can work with?

3. What the maximum capacity of the memory card that S5-391 can work with?

4. Can I deletel all paritions in the S5-391 that include hidden partitions and recovery paritions, then reinstall new windows.

Thank you very much for your help.

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Re: SSD
Apr 1, 2015 10:19PM PDT

That's strange. You need two SSD's to run RAID0: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485.html. And, in fact, http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Acer-Aspire-S5-391-73514G25akk-Ultrabook.82547.0.html says it comes with 2 128 GB SSD's giving you 256 GB. Isn't that enough for you?

About the RAM: crucial says that all memory is soldered to the motherboard, so you can't add any. What you currently have is the maximum!

Surely you can install an other (or the same) Windows, but be sure you have all necessary software (like drivers and utilities) from the Acer site, before you erase everything on the hard disk.

Kees

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hi, thank you for your help,
Apr 1, 2015 10:37PM PDT

I mean I already have the S5-391 with 128GB, and it is not enough for me, so I want to upgrade it with SSD, I am not sure if ordinary msata SSD that can be supported by the S5-391 without RAID mode, because it is very difficult to buy a new original and customized 256GB SSD for my S5-391.

Thank you for your help.

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Iffy
Apr 2, 2015 1:01AM PDT

I could not find a support article to do this so you may have to change out the current SSDs to what you want then use the restore media for this laptop to set it all up again.
Bob

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S5-391 mSATA drive
Sep 13, 2015 3:48PM PDT
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That's a new one.
Sep 13, 2015 4:19PM PDT

Good luck with this. I haven't run into a single board that did that yet. Hope the makers document how to change this up.