Is the HD upgradable? Can you upgrade it with say a Samsung EVO 840 SSD?
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You can try but every is so thin I don't want to exchange nothing in the Acer to my point
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No, it uses a special kind of msata which has built in raid controller and also bios is locked to raid mode.
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I believe you can, but I have not done it. A friend of mine told me he would if I wanted him to
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Yes you can upgrade the SSD, dont worry about losing RAID 0 capability as it doesnt provide any redundancy or data mirroring capability. It is supposed to give a small performance benefit in parallelism of read and write operations but the reality is very minimal. You can upgrade to 256 or 500Gb SSD (S7-392 model so I'd expect it to work with the S7-391) however you need to be aware of certain bios settings. Suffice to say its not for the beginner. You need a 50mm msata replacement, very important. You can take the old one out and buy a caddy for $20 and plug it into the USB 3 and have a very fast external drive. NOTE REPLACEMENT OF THE SSD WILL VOID THE WARRANTY. Yes you can upgrade the SSD, dont worry about losing RAID 0 capability as it doesnt provide any redundancy or data mirroring capability. It is supposed to give a small performance benefit in parallelism of read and write operations but the reality is very minimal. You can upgrade to 256 or 500Gb SSD (S7-392 model so I'd expect it to work with the S7-391) however you need to be aware of certain bios settings. Suffice to say its not for the beginner. You need a 50mm msata replacement, very important. You can take the old one out and buy a caddy for $20 and plug it into the USB 3 and have a... » Read More Yes you can upgrade the SSD, dont worry about losing RAID 0 capability as it doesnt provide any redundancy or data mirroring capability. It is supposed to give a small performance benefit in parallelism of read and write operations but the reality is very minimal. You can upgrade to 256 or 500Gb SSD (S7-392 model so I'd expect it to work with the S7-391) however you need to be aware of certain bios settings. Suffice to say its not for the beginner. You need a 50mm msata replacement, very important. You can take the old one out and buy a caddy for $20 and plug it into the USB 3 and have a very fast external drive. NOTE REPLACEMENT OF THE SSD WILL VOID THE WARRANTY. « Show Less
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I am pretty sure it can, I am planning on upgrading the HD to a SSD as well. The stock harddrive is slow, but the display and and processor are excellent. Not sure why they crippled the PC like that.
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I dont know what you mean by upgrade, but it comes with a ssd, sata cable 3.5 expansion a usb enclose and a install cd
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Pretty easy to do I placed Ina 128 sad from Kingston ... I believe any ssd on the market is compatible
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You can leave the existing harddrive in it and add drives. Mine is one year older and has spots for 3 msata drives, plus the existing hhd. Rest is upgradeable also (video, wifi/bluetooth). I just upgraded my wifi to AC for $32, my msata 128g crucial drive was $97. This model has 4 ram slots the MSI site says 3 ssd slots.. has killer double shot lan/wifi. Turbo fan with just a button push. I love mine. I converted the new msata to the boot drive and use the existing for storage.
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Sorry we can't add SSD for you. We are selling the factory default as it is from MSI. You can add SSD by yourself.
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Hi, No, you need to buy the hard drive separately. You can choose freely if you want HDD og SSD drives - but I can highly recommend SSD :-)Cheers
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Ronald I'm not 100% sure, I know there was some items that allowed to be upgraded, been a while since I bought, I use an external drive for tons of video and pic's, works like a champ got a 1 terabyte drive with USB
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Yes. I was disappointed. I really did not see a speed increase. My friend bought the same one and said there was. However, he upgraded to Win 8 and did clean installs. That was probably why. If want SSD speed buy an SSD drive.
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yes you can add extra HD, this laptop has 2 hard drive bays. Ram can be upgraded to 32GB max.
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RAM on this unit is soldered to the motherboard. No user upgrade possible. But you could upgrade the drive (SSD).
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I asked the same question and got generally the same answer - SSDs are replaceable but not upgradable in laptops. This laptop is being used for statistics and photography - the largest programs fit easily on it, but for storage and backup more capacity may be desired. I use a conventional external hard drive and thumb drives.
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yes upgrade to 8g instead of 6 I would also replace hd with ssd...for super fast...
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Absolutely! I replaced the HD with an SSD (Samsung Pro 840 250GB). The computer works amazingly fast and it is so reliable especially after it was upgraded to Windows 8.1.
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Yes you can. But spend the extra and get SSD drive. It is soooo much faster and does not have a problem with being bounced around.
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Yes, you can use an ssd. Currently have a samsung EVO 1TB ssd installed. Both hdd and ssd will work just fine, I'm using both
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Yes, I have upgraded mine and also switched my hybrid HD for the MX100 SSD. No hassle at all.